Dewayne, just my $.02 worth. The dark pinstrip really sets the flames off. I like the contrast and definition. John

 

As a designer, I'd be inclined to try a light lavender purple or your lime green, but I do think the striping should be a contrasting color to make the flames pop. Red is actually a dark color (squint your eyes down until colors disappear, the red will go black).

 

"Himmelberg has in a few sentences explained why some paint jobs work and some flop and why a seemigly diverse collaboration of colors that should be discordant actually harmonize."

Bubba,

A bit of sage outhouse eloquence. You just blew your "I'm juz a dumb ol' country boy" routine again.

AX

Thanks very much for the link. I just ordered a catalog. I searched the net for hours and came up empty. These guys seem automotive/boat oriented, which is good.

I need to try harder. Unfortunately only a few paint stores around here that deal with hobbyists without some serious condescending sattitude. I hate paying big bucks to people to treat me like that. They act like I am putting them out to sell me some paint. It's weird, I don't have that problem with other businesses around here.

All of you,

Baby blue? Lavender? I know what you guys are up to. You're just trying to get me to sissy up my truck so you can make fun of my little engine again. Should I perhaps die my interior mauve too, so I can get me some more of that discordant harmonializationism Bubba's talking about.

 

Hey Buddy ???? you KNOW you're leaving yourself W I D E open for some serious incoming ordinance, don't you ??? Normally I'd just lay you open and let you bleed... but I know what kind of stress you're dealing with now and your flank is exposed... so I got your six..

All of you... leave fenders alone about his stripe color... he'll figure out the right combo... His expertise is legend in the armor fixing circles and it is only exceeded by his taste and flare for accessorizing... that funky blond lady on "Devine Design" on HGTV calls my man when she just can't get it put together right ! "You da man D.R. You da man" and personally I think mauve would add just the right amount of class,... besides when they see the mauve they will be snickering so hard they won't see that baby block you're hiding under them gorgeous stripes/flames... (sorry bud, couldn't help myself)

NOW !!! Ya'll leave Denise...er DeWayne alone !!! Don't make me come over there !!!

See ole Buddy... how I got your back !!!

later

John (too cool to put no crap on Dewayne)

 

12 hours late for that laugh I needed this morning, John. Good one nonetheless. thanks. himmelberg

 

Ah yes...a lovely chuckle...verily! I don't pretend to know a primary color from a secondary color but from my rounds and drooling sessions over various flame jobs at the different car shows I see the lime green over and over when used with bright colored flame jobs - true they are often on a black background - but I've seen them used on other background colors (including red) to great advantage. Don't have a clue why the color works - by itself I don't care for it at all but it does seem to make flames "pop". I've seen more subtle flames (is there any such thing?) outlined with various shades of the base flame color and that seems to work too but again, I'm not sure why. My thought would be to let the striper mix some colors to suit his taste and see if you like them - anybody who can drive a sword brush should also be able to figure out what to outline those flames with to give them "zing".

By the way PHAT 51 will start life in black suede paint with as close to Von Dutch style stripes as I can manage in Red, white and gray. Nothing fancy but something to accent the red steelies. I'm not Kool enough for flames!!!

Leaks

 

Leaks

Don't know how old you are, but apparently old enough that a bit of first grade has faded from memory. This is important stuff. I don't pretend to be an educator of Himmelberg's stature but here goes. John, you may follow along with your fingerpaints to verify the correctness of my secret art teachins.

Primary colors of the color wheel are Red-Yeller-Blue. Arrange them on a clock face circle at 10-2 and 6

Mix Red and Yeller and you get orange, a secondary color

Mix Yeller and Blue and you get Green, a secondary color

Mix Blue and Red and you get Purple, another secondary color

I don't know what white is, but if you combine it with blue or purple or red, you get the primary sissy colors. There are secondary sissy colors too. They have stupid names like mauve or fuschia. They're make believe color names. Your bathroom is very likely one of those colors. Sorry, I don't know the recipe for them. Only Wal-Mart does.

If you make flames with any combination of primary and secondary colors, then outline them with a sissy color, Himmelberg will like it. AX will too. I'm not sure what that means?

John

Thanks for covering me................ or not. And by the way. I will "dye" my interior, not "die" it. I hate it when I type ignurunt.

 

Yo Fenders! 49 years and struggling with CRS. Thanks much for the refresher in primary colors and the additional information regards the sissy portion of the color wheel. I had indeed forgotten (wish that was all I'd forgotten) but now feel edified and educationized to boot! I believe my bathroom is indeed one of the secondary sissy colors but as long as there's a Classic Truck or Hot Rod magazine in there I don't really care about the color of the walls. Priorities doncha know!

Leaks

 

ROTFLMAO!!!!
Art lesson # 3 (or is it 26, I seem to be catching what Leaks has). Mixing white with a color is called tints and mixing black with them is called tones. Mix all 3 primary colors together in equal parts and in theory you should get black, but you really get mud. Mixing in a tiny amount of the color opposite any one on the color wheel (it's complimentary color) and you lower it's intensity. Now for your homework, get a big box of crayolas and arrange them all into their correct place on the color wheel. Yes, it will be on the test!

 

Not to put too fine a point on it... white is light, thus, it is the presence of all colors. Black is the absence of light. White reflects color, black absorbs it. So, technically, black is not a color at all. That includes flat black. Extending that to its logical or somewhat pointless end, there is no such thing as a "rat rod".

There are Barbie colors. There are Barbie cars. Try to flame one of them if you want a color challenge. You just thought you had a flaming headache, 'Fenders... well, just go ask some poor little girl out there who wants flames on her Barbie car. Then you will know heartache, right, John?

primarily, himmelberg

 

Himmelberg - You've got a wild sense of humor. Those logical and pointless ends are the best ones.

 

Randy...

I would have thought that the logical end of a flame is a point ??? but then like my wife says "What the h@#$ do you know ???"

anyway... as for Barbies who need flames ??? the first step is to get them out of their cute pink VW and into a mid-50's truck state of mind ??? then the bigger picture will be easier for them to see.. must be something about them looking thru flat import glass , over the daisy in the bud vase on the VW dash that clouds their vision... this is corrected easily by having to look thru the beautiful curved windshield of an F-100... then all knowledge (including flames) will be known to them... it's sorta of a Zen thing I guess...

later grasshopper


BTW AX ?? I got my Crayolas out for the test... but just ended up eating the short ones and only the sissy colors are left ! Can I have a make up test later ???


j

 

John

So strange... That is so much more information than I ever wanted to know about Barbie cars. Daisy in the bud vase?

It would all have cleared up years ago if Ken wasn't such a wimp.

 

How did we get onto this Barbie thing? Is john N. privie to some intel that the rest of us do not have clearance for? You know, something just occurred to me. There's an old military tradition for guys to paint pictures on the side of the bombers, cannons, etc. Maybe this is John's way of leaking the news that Dewayne is going to have little Barbies painted on the doors after the flame job is finaled. No wonder we've seen all this talk of colors like fuschia. It's OK Dewayne, I'm sure it will look very pretty. John

 

Final bump on this tired thread. Finally got some outdoor PICs. Sun never did come out, which is probably just as well. I usually get glare problems anyway. A lot of overspray on the running boards. Time to solve the red matching problem in urethane I guess. Clearcoat in the spring if I don't chip them all up too bad. Time to finish the interior.





I like the white grill. It's a different look anyway after four years of boring old "Me Too" red.