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i found my colour! i found my colour! i found my colour! i found my colour! i found my colour! i found my colour! i found my colour! i found my colour! i found my colour! i found my colour! now i just gotta hope i can find somewhere that sells it, called indiana red metallic apparently, found on netbugs

hhmmmm if you get a photo quality pic down to the paint shop they may be able to match from it? just an idea 😉

or go throught the color books and find one similar :P

Nice! Kind of a candy apple colour, try the 'house of kolor' paint range.

I think its spelt a bit quirky like that.

Linkage!

http://www.hokpaint.com/scripts/depot.exe?pgm=hokgate.bbx

i know i liked candy apple but it was to pinky, ive bin lookin 4 a mix of ruby and candy, now ive found it and it looks oh so goooooooooooooooooooooooood

ok ok candy is like a type similar to that of a metalic.....

hhmmm this is kind of hard to explain. candy's are pretty much a tinted clear over a base color which is mostly silver.

candy apple is one color of the candy range 😉

I think Mitsubishi Magna's come out in a similar colour to what you are after. Also Daewoo Matiz's.

cheers for the link gibbo, appreciated muchly

cheers everyone, looks good on its own too, was going to go a two toned thing with white between the guards style, but it looks better textured in a real pic than on a paint drawing. i better not see 100 other bugs gettin red resprays now, ive noticed that theres usually a mass of bugs @ shows in very similar colour, usually one major stand out, last few years have been green, blue, hope red isnt this years/next years thing:simlegrin: also you would think i was happy or something hey

looks similar to chaos hes a 64 ruby red

Wow, nice colour! 👍

I know what you mean about colours of Bugs being the same... i know of 3 others in the same colour as mine! :P

who is going to be on the end of the airline???

Two tone sorta like this

yeah dark, rich, pearl, metallic candy ass ... you'd better prepare yourself for the ticket price...not to mention just how well you'll have to prep the car to get it looking as good as that one...which is stunning...

im prepared to do it myself thanks muchly, im a perfectionist anyways, and wont be happy till i like it, may end up costing more than a pro respray but do you think this is a face that cares?(isnert non-caring look face here) im building my bug on one principal, everything i can do myself i am going to, only things i cant do for legalities etc is the exception, most probebly wouldnt understand my reasons for doing such but maybe someday you will

I'm painting my bug Candy Apple pink, i'm doing everything else but one thing i wont do is the paint job. Its already going to cost $4k to get it painted with candy apple, and if the prepping is all wrong etc it'll all turn to shit and i'm not gunna pay more on top of that because i choose to do it.

Just be very cautious 1stcarbug, its not the sort of paint you should really use if you havent done it before (incase you havent?) I've seen how my panel beater painted my dads car in Candy Apple Red, and whoa, i think i'll leave it to the pro's. I'll do Acrylic and 2pack... but not candy! 😀 Bloody nice colour when done right though!

ive done sprayin b4, just not candies, ill do it myself, and yes practise/experimentaion will happen before i go spray the whole thing, i aint stupid, yes i admit that im not a pro spraypainter but im like dasdubber in a way, dont mind if its not 100% perfect just so long as its the absolute best i could possibly do, some people find thats an admirable quality to have, others think you shouldnt bother, each to their own, im the hands on type, id get no satisfaction from payin someone to do it for me

if no-one stocks the colour see if you can get the code off the guy in the photo, so you can get the candy mixed exactly to spec.

Helbus wrote:I think Mitsubishi Magna's come out in a similar colour to what you are after. Also Daewoo Matiz's.

and Commodores and Kingswoods and Falcons

Try Venetian Red from the 70s Holden colour range... or Burgunday (not sure of real name) from VT Commodore

Looks similar to the wifes Inferno Red PT Cruiser in colour.

those are very admirable qualities BUT please take some heed of miss vee dub ,thats why i asked who is on the end of the airline there is painting and there is serious mettalics and you need a lot of experience to use them to effect:beer:beer:beer

Sounds like he's got it covered Miss Dub.

I am sure someone said you can brush or roll on that kind of paint LOL 🙂

1stcarbug wrote:im prepared to do it myself thanks muchly, im a perfectionist anyways, and wont be happy till i like it, may end up costing more than a pro respray but do you think this is a face that cares?(isnert non-caring look face here) im building my bug on one principal, everything i can do myself i am going to, only things i cant do for legalities etc is the exception, most probebly wouldnt understand my reasons for doing such but maybe someday you will

if your painting in candy, make sure u got your runners on! you'll be running up and down the side of the car for a while 😀

look cut the shit people im doin it myself and dont care what you think, ive done my research, know what im in for, and still wish to do it, if you have a problem with me giving it ago, tough shit, and if you have a shitload of cash to throw at other people to do the work for you, congrats, i dont, nor do i wish to, you cant say its my car i built it if you just paid for it, and yes i understand that to get it to look good you have to be really good, still i believe i will get it 2 a standard im happy with.

Dude get of the defensive, for the most part people were trying to warn you that candys can be a total bitch to paint and were trying to be helpfull..They are a style of painting that a novice shouldn't attempt but thats not saying it cant be done and done to look good...

Your last post said it all *to your standard* mate as long as u r happy with what it looks like that go for it but u must see that people will look and if its not a top job(not saying u cant do such) they will pick it and nobody likes to hear people say bad things bout there pride and joy..

People were only trying to give u some advice so that u dont get to the end and having spent a heap of money blood sweat and tears and have a car thats not quite as good looking as the amount of effot you put in should dictate ..

As for the colour .. top choice... personaly i am not a fan of reds but the real deep candys look bloody fantastic...

As for where to find it look in the house of kolor range, there are a line of reds that should be what your looking for but be warned they cost.......

best of luck

steff.............................................

Helbus wrote:I am sure someone said you can brush or roll on that kind of paint LOL 🙂

If I said that there would be calls for banning.
Moderators suck balls especially this sanctimonious prick.
He thinks he is the only person that can paint or knows anything about paint.
Just tell them to stick their thumbs up their ass and have a shot if that's what you want to do.

piss off louis whoever you are, pete like me was attempting a little advice ,and your shit isnt welcome or needed here. take your bullshit elsewhere!!!!!!!!!

Louis wrote:If I said that there would be calls for banning.
Moderators suck balls especially this sanctimonious prick.
He thinks he is the only person that can paint or knows anything about paint.
Just tell them to stick their thumbs up their ass and have a shot if that's what you want to do.

Actually no, Helbus's comment is obviously a joke - take a look through the paint and body section and see how much time he devotes to helping people unlike yourself. The difference is he has demonstrated time and time again his assistance and willingness to help, therefore a comment like this is not viewed as serious (hence why only you viewed it that way and no one else). It is your assumption/inference that he "thinks he is the only person who can paint or knows anything about paint" - I am sure many others on here will strongly disagree with you including myself.

I agree with your final comment although would have phrased it differently (but hey thats just me), I urge people to give things a go and have a crack themselves. We shouldn't be discouraging people to DIY regardless of how difficult a process may be. The exception of course is modifying something that will put them or others in danger (eg. having a crack at welding on a new frame head but not really knowing what you are doing). If the candy paint gets screwed, so be it, its the best way to learn (when it costs time and money) - rarely will you make the same mistake again. Who knows, it could come out perfectly.

Louis, your attitude sucks balls (to quote your highly intelligent evaluation of moderators) - if you hate us so much, and have nothing useful to contribute apart from insulting and criticising others, please go elsewhere.

I can tell you now I am all for 1stcarbug giving it a go.

I personally have never done candy, so I cant give any professional advice, based on experience.

What I wrote in that one liner was me basically being a bit of a joker and the combined LOL and 🙂 would definitley be showing that.

1stcarbug if I upset you I'm sorry. I just prefer to either write helpful facts or in this instance, it being out of my league ( it's true folks, I don't know everything ) I had a joke, and I sorta intended it to be on me in a way.

1stcarbug I am supporting you, as I support anyone doing anything on their own car. I never say never. People said I would never be able to build a limo and get it registered????

www.ehlimo.com.au

if you want to see what a positive attitude can build. Built with pennies and hard work, not a chequebook car.

As for negative personal comments directed to me. *shrugs shoulders* I won't waste my typing time to reply.

my brother painted his gfriends gemini in this same color, he has had a fair bit of spray experiance (done a few cars before), and trust me it lookied like shit....and the gemi is a little les curvy than a bug!

not trying to through my 2cents in late, as im a newbie here too and even though i read alot, i post little.....but i would consider getting a pro to do it...if you do all the prep work it might not be to much $$

cheers for the sipport finally helbus, always thought you seemd alright, das i figured you would have the can do attitude, seeing you bug over the build time has made me want to do mine sooner rather than later, and exactly right, i may completly stuff it up but its something ill be proud of having a go at, unless it looks like absolute rat shit, but hey practise makes perfect, and ive had practise on other stuff before, and wans quite good at it aswell, if i was hopeless @ other paint do you think id still bother wasting money on really expensive stuff? im making a bug im proud to say i did almost all of the work on, thats the sole objective, other than enjoying it, i have ZERO intentions to make it a show pony / trailer queen, to me thats just a pointless excersise, its built to be DRIVEN, thats why its called a car, anyways apperciate the positiveness, despite the fact it took a while to come out, cheers everyone
FCB

btw, crewcabconnection, nice spray job 2:thumb

give it a shot yourself. why not.
the sense of satisfaction of completing the job will well be worth all the headaches along the way.
nice colour too by the way.
looks similar to this

nice one crewcab.. glad to see my advice was some help 🙂

FCB i'v painted a little bit of kandy at trade school, it is well hard to keep the strokes all overlapped the correct amount to get an even look.. but it can certainly be done.. practice on a board first.. the trick is not to get lost in the lines of the car.. if that makes sense..

thats why you need to run up and down the side of the car, cos it all hastta be even... its a bit of a headF$%k but looks awesome when its done 🙂

ask heaps of questions in paint and body, and you'll come out on top 🙂

thanks for advice kkk, will do when as i think of em

Tons of advice here.

There is even reference to candy paints.

http://members.tripod.com/~bobstory/faq.html