Interior Painting

[Muse]

Okay... so.

I believe my next project will be pulling out some pieces from the interior and painting them.

Door handles, etc.


My car is Plat Grey w/grey interior.

I have purple seat covers, and want to incorporate more purple without getting ridiculous about it.

My plan was to get some Plat Grey, and a shade of purple that matches my seat covers and go to town. I want to try to make the purple blend in more than I want it to be shocking and ridiculously out of place noticeable, if that makes any sense. Just a little POP!

There is a pic of the interior w/seat covers in the link in my sig for an example.

What I'm looking for is suggestions on what items to paint, and which to leave alone - and the best combination of colors as to not look ridiculous

If I'm left to decide this on my own, I'll just end up never doing it!

[FineExampl]

Hey lady!

Check out my pic thread in my signature. I took individual shots of everything that is easily removable and paintable. Also, my painting thread may help you out. Feel free to PM me or post any questions.

Here's an idea for you....

Paint everything PG and stencil some purple flowers like on yer seats, but the darkest version of that purple. What i see in my head would look so freakin sexy on a girl's Bug it's not even funny. Bonus if you can find a metallic purple.

[Muse]

Originally Posted by FineExampl

Paint everything PG and stencil some purple flowers like on yer seats, but the darkest version of that purple. What i see in my head would look so freakin sexy on a girl's Bug it's not even funny. Bonus if you can find a metallic purple.

You're a genius. Seriously, I can't believe I didn't even think of that. I should run myself over for being a moron.

It would DEFINITELY have to be metallic enough to look nice with the PG, or no go.

As soon as I get my car back, providing it doesn't put me in the poor house, I'm going for it. (August) in the meantime, I'm making stencils and choosing which pieces to do with your thread.

Thanks, dude

Uh, I thought I added you on myspce. Did I delete you?!?! Whoops.

[FineExampl]

Yeah, ya did, but it's okay. I hardly talk to ya.

If you can't find metallic paint here's what you can do.

Lay your base coat of PG. take an EVER so slightly larger stencil of you primary design and ON your basecoat lay the larger stencil down and use BLACK. Let it all dry and make sure your base coat was nice and thick. With me so far? Good. Get that black stencil nice and dark. NOW clearcoat the sucker with AT LEAST 3 good coats, superfine sand when totally dry (24-48hrs later). NEXT layer your smaller stencil over the larger designand lay the color down. smooth it out with the superfine paper. NOW lay at least 2 more, if not 3-4 more coats of clear.

If you see where i'm going with this... you should have a nice RAISED almost 3D thing going on. The layer of clear between the 2 colors plus a black edge should give a nice illusion.

OR offset your stencils in black to give a similar, but easier effect.

BE MY GUINEA PIG!!

[Muse]

I think you might have changed your MySpace display name, and I was like.. who the heck is this? And deleted without checking. :P

Anyway, I will quest for the perfect paint, and check back in when I've found it. I'll probably need some cyber-hand-holding for the first piece I do, but after that it should go smoothly.

[manoverboard987]

if you can't find a metallic purple paint for the accents, i think i've seen a metallic purple vinyl somewhere before...

plus that'd make the actual designs a lot easier.

[Muse]

Originally Posted by manoverboard987

if you can't find a metallic purple paint for the accents, i think i've seen a metallic purple vinyl somewhere before...

plus that'd make the actual designs a lot easier.

That's another option, thanks!

I actually have some purple GLITTER vinyl here - I used to work somewhere with a cutter and made a license plate frame with it. Now I just have some scraps left. Hmm..

[iScott]

Know of a good place to get stencils? Or are you planning on making them yourself?

[Muse]

I'll make them myself - if there is one thing I'm good at, it's painting and other artsy stuff. I used to make T-Shirt stencils, so I'm not too worried about it.

Yet.