I've been thinkin about repainting the 350Z after this summer since 3 years of wear and tear is showing. The car has been egged and there is a swirl mark left, there are about 100 stone chips over the front end, and I wouldn't mind molding the rear skirt. *If* I do paint the car, however, I'd want it to be something that is not an OEM color, as to allow it to stick out a little bit. I'm not looking to show the car or anything, so I don't want to get too wild, but if I'm paying $3,000 for a paintjob, I want it to be noticably different. Some are going to argue and say that "quote" is low, but I had my previous car painted including jambs, trunk, engine bay, removed windows, etc. for less than $3k because I have a few connections in the small town I live in...

Anyway, I got bored at work today and I just got photoshop from my brother last evening, so I figured I'd find some tutorials online and play around. Here is my first ever photoshop of a color change on the car. The only area I can noticably see I screwed up is the front hood line, but I plan to fix it later tonight. I'm sure professional "shoppers" can tear this apart, but I think it's ok for only working with 45 mins of experience under my belt.

Here are my first two color possibilities. Let me know what you think. I always loved the Laguna blue on the M3, but not sure if I like it on the Z. The green I did is really growing on me.

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My attempt at Laguna Seca Blue (from the M3):


My (generic) dark metallic green attempt:

 

Please move this to Picture Share, I posted it in the wrong forum...

 

NP.

I think a darker charcoal color would be cool. Those wheels are really cool on it.

 

dont do greeen!
that blue looks good, but i doubt u can get that color....
try smurf blue or baby blue..

 

metallic green

 

You can definitely get the color, it is my best attempt at Laguna Seca Blue from the E46 BMW M3s. The color seems to shift a lot from blue to turqouise with lighting, but you can get it and thats a close resemblence.

 

Smurf blue... looks kinda on a 350?

 

oh no..that smurf blue. That kinda remind me of the pink ZR.

 

I like Aviator Grey from the Audi TT as well, but I cannot photoshop it very well as its non-metallic and my paint is metallic...

 

Dark Metallic Blue!

 

Here is a sideview of the Laguna Blue:

 

Or a dark metallic "Inferno" red...

 

Aviator gray TT below. I'd probably put a pearlcoat of some type over it as it appears to be shiny primer color. Different though.

 

I guess this is a really old post... but I've always loved Laguna Seca blue, and always wondered how it'd look on a Z. I can't see the pics though can anyone possibly do a nice photoshop of it or maybe repost these pics? Thanks
-Max

 

ya, laguna seca blue is one of my favorite colors too.

ive actually seen one on a 350z in person, atleast i think it was laguna seca blue.
anyways, it looked pretty good i thought. he had the long nose body kit i think, ings maybe?

iirc, i have seen that car floating on the internet somewhere. i'll see if i can find any pics for you later when i get home.