- Building on a car, regardless of make or model, is tough,
but you wanna know what's tougher?
I'ma be honest, I just did this, paying attention?
You looking at me? (chuckles)
Eating a granola bar, one of the Nature Valley's,
without making a mess, the damn thing is just too much,
they gotta calm down, they gotta put some butter in there,
or maybe some peanut butter in there,
maybe that would fix it, okay.
Anyway, one of the other most difficult things,
in terms of segue on a YouTube video
is probably talking about how to make car things to match,
it's something that's damn difficult,
and just getting everything to flow
from the front to the back, I mean,
like you end up looking at a car when you do finish it,
you're like, "I like it a little bit...
"Like not a lot, but like, you know, I don't like it."
I'm Alex, alex.fi on Instagram, and today we're going
to be talking about the best car color combinations,
both from the factory and/or six feet, all right?
And/or three building that bad puppy up from the ground,
'cause guess what, we probably all should've just paid
a little bit more attention in art class
when it came to color combos
because I've been looking out there,
and sometimes, a little bit of a couple (indistinct)
of our car build start looking like (beep)
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, myself included.
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And when it comes to paying attention in art class,
they sometimes talk about complementary colors and all that.
We ain't gonna do all that.
First off, I don't even remember anything from art class,
all I remember is that I made
a baller clay piece of pie one time for my mom
in fourth grade, and she still has it on her oven,
see it every single time I go back,
there's even little whip cream on top,
but that part kinda chipped off
when I took it home in my backpack,
it's very sad, I'm sad, that's sad.
Probably the most iconic and easy two-color combination
to do is your classic white chassis, black accents.
Now you see this on a ton of cars, but sometimes,
people get scared of doing it because they end up upgrading
to carbon fiber, carbon fee-ber, okay.
You don't have to actually go up to carbon fiber.
Now, carbon fiber is a good accent,
but you have to do it everywhere if you wanna make it work.
Gloss Black or Satin Black are also awesome color options
when you go with white, and you can usually go
with a white chassis and then black side skirts,
a front lip, mirror caps, and a rear lip.
Tint the windows around 20 to 35%,
and you're pretty much golden.
If you have trim in a different color,
like chrome or something like that, popping off,
paint them the same color
and at the same time as your other parts,
so you get a consistent color across all your pieces.
Now, a lot of times, people wanna do the white on the black
and not the carbon fiber
because it's actually very cost-effective as well.
Next up would be a fun one, which is probably gray on red.
Now, Nardo Gray is probably one of the most popular colors
out there right now, but you can switch it up
to be a primary red color with gray accents.
I know, all cars are gray, I made fun of it a little bit,
and I said I wanted more colorful colors,
and then I went and painted my own car gray.
That was yesterday.
I always imagine the Marlboro liveries
when I think of white, red, and gray,
but the color combinations is killer
to give the car sports car high-end look.
Lots of times, you can use the aluminum panels
versus just the color gray for like your caps,
your trim pieces, and your facial parts.
You see this actually super commonly seen on Audi RS trims,
but gray isn't horrible either.
(indistinct) for being related to a sports car,
and the gray breaks it up enough
where you don't lose details, especially in coop cars.
When you look at a car that's all the same color,
you lose a lot of differentiation.
Interiors on red cars should stay dark
to avoid too much red, especially if you're modifying it,
reason being is red is a very strong color,
and when using it as an interior color,
you can quickly overcome anything else
you have done to the car.
Stick to stitching for loud colors, really,
and the rest to match your exterior accent
of aluminum or gray.
If you have a bunch of plastic pieces in there
and you wanna do something with them
because they don't match, try to get them
in the aluminum or the gray.
Dark blue with bronze flake is always a banger,
and it's probably seen the most on BMWs,
as they have one of the best color ranges
for cars right now, right next to probably Porsche.
While shiny colors seem cool,
going with a bronze flake wheel that's more matte than gloss
gives it a hyper-functional look,
and on newer BMWs as well, since they are so aggressive,
you want the color to match the theme.
Usually aggressive has a tendency to look more functional.
Dark blue, black window tint, bronze flake wheels,
and carbon as your accent,
and you have your own mini show car
that can have as much fun with the super cars on the track
as you can when you take it to your local car show.
Especially with the dark blue stuff,
anything that has a darker tone,
if you go with a flake for an accent color on your wheels,
it looks (chef's kiss) beautiful.
People seem to be drifting away from black cars
because they can be a bit bland,
but black with a power color, especially for your car,
is a super good-looking color combo to do.
And what's a power color, you might ask.
I don't know, I made it up,
and we're not talking about your graphics car, okay,
we're talking about a pop of color, okay,
it's not a definition,
I don't know what you'd actually call it.
Loud, bright, and in your face,
black cars with DDT or Double Dark Tint wheels
with like lime green calibers or orange calibers
is super hot fire, okay.
Bright colors can be tough to accent
because your car can go from classy
to not very classy pretty quick
because bright colors are prone to look cheap
when not done correctly, especially with powder coat.
Keep your accents to the brakes, inside of a spoke,
or even your wing plate ends if you have something
that's like a wing or some sort of lip,
and keep the rest pretty minimal,
even the new Rotiform wheels, like the model blacks,
put a little streak of color on the inside of the spoke
to give you a little bit of flash, which is pretty neat.
You can take a wheel like that, and actually pair it
to your caliber on a black car, double dark tint,
go with the window tint, maybe put a band around it,
and you are pretty much ready to fire.
But what's your favorite color combo,
and what have you tried to match in the past
and it just didn't work out?
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I never paid attention in art class,
and I still don't think I regret it.