A&Q about Lotus
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1st pic rules!
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i like #2
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I think the type 49 scheme whould look pretty hot with the chili red paint. I'm not a big gold wheel fan either, BUT the gold flake would really pop with gold wheels. It might be worth looking into. At least set a gold wheel next to the car down at your local wheel shop.
Here is a set of painted LSS wheels and some custom made by Kodiak.
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Pic #1 for me, but don't smoke the lights. That seems to make the red seem a tad drab. I'd try to match the grey color to as much as possible to the charcoal color of the windshield frame. I like the placement of the line, too.
Tom
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White on the lower half is probably good for hiding rock chips too. Just a thought.
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My opinion is either do the gray one, but with a lighter shade of gray or the black one with a white stripe.
The lighter gray would create a light-dark contrast in addition to the contrast of saturation. This will add to the character of the car significantly, imo. As it is, with colors of equal brilliance above and below the ground (horizon) line, one could easily confuse the paint job as a black stripe and not even notice the gray below.
The white stripe on the black would better delineate the separation. Right now, you're using a medium-gray stripe, which is right about in the middle of the two colors (equal brilliance to red, equal saturation to black). Thus, it mucks up the separation of the two colors. White is the polar opposite to black, and would make for a very noticeable break in the car's paint.
Good luck.
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I like the gray
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Liger...
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I'd vote Red/Gray, but the Red/Black reminds me a lot of the Ferrari 512 Berlinetta Boxer model I had as a kid.