With respect to the following:
I was telling the wife about the back story on the whole "Gold wheel thing", and how I could tell how well one of my design decisions "go over" on the forum by comments or the lack of the same. Typically, when I hit one out of the park, I'll get a fair amount of attaboys,..and when I post a pic of a green-gold wheel I get crickets. I told her that The fact that the wheel is the color that it is has forced me to change over to a white/gold (in my case....white/green-gold) paint scheme.
I showed her a pic of one of my favs Pontiac GP SCJ, and she................hated it. ( What the hell does she know?)
She went on to ask why I decided against the orange and I told her that green and orange don't mix. She, ( an interior design consultant) looked at me like I had 3 eyes. "Uhh,...trust me when I tell you this.......If there is a prayer that those wheels will ever look gold........you need to keep the orange." She goes on to say " Depending on how green the wheels are, the orange will bring out the gold more than the white, which will not because of the mutual color pigments in gold and orange."
She had to see the wheels first.
So I take her into the garage where they are, totally deprived of sunlight at 11PM last night, and the first words outta her mouth were "Ohhhhh,.....that's realllly green."
Ohhhh,.....so No Orange after all?
Lets put it this way,......I'm not even gonna take a picture of the wheels in the garage, they're so green.
Here's what I think:
I'm thinking/hoping that that gold I painted on the wheels is photochemically reactive. I think that devoid of sunlight, I'm getting a green wheel. I'm hoping that when the sun gets up over the trees here, and I roll one of those pigs into the sunlight, I'll strike gold.
If that happens, then my wife, with her eye for color combo's may get a vote in the final color choice. At the same time, she's talking about color combo's on upholstery, and carpeting that you might see in a university/office. But I'm here to tell ya. What works on a rug, ain't necessarily gonna work on the monster.
Andddd....the suns' up........and it doesn't make one damn bit of difference except to light up the metallic.
It's my fault actually. The dried paint in the white strainer is gold. Clearly, the black base of the wheel is affecting the final color of that gold.
So,.........that leaves me w/ a few options:
Paint the "gold" parts over a black base and two tone the car white and this green metallic.
Two tone a base (black and white/light grey and spray the entire car in that metallic. The base will change the color to where the main color will be the gold it's supposed to be, and the green that the wheels are, so in essence it will automatically two tone.
Add a light grey sealer to the wheel and spray another qt of paint(or however many coats it'll take to get the right color to show up), and paint the car orange.
(this makes sense to me if I'm not completely screwing up by spraying what has to amount to 7-9 coats of paint on top of the existing powder coat)
Maybe one of the body/paint guys will chime in here.
@95steedamustang