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Old 12-30-2007, 07:28 PM
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Default Getting car partially wrapped, ideas needed...

I am having a vinyl wrap done on my 2002 Camaro (black) and am looking for some ideas. I think I might do a simulated carbon fiber on the hood and maybe sides (I'm only wrapping the front and lower sides) with maybe some flames or something.

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maybe some ghost flames, or some silver flames might look pretty cool.
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negative on carbon fiber
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Please don't do carbon fiber, regular carbon fiber looks bad enough, but fake carbon fiber is sin.....ghost flames are cool
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I used to work for a vinyl sign shop and we did lots of vehicle stuff, wraps, etc.

The thing that will kinda make or break the look is where the line is - where the graphics end or are trimmed out. If you're just doing the nose and the lower front fenders it could look good, but the space is limited. If you have the graphics end in the middle of the hood or fenders, with any kind of shape to them (flames, etc) then you may have issues with it wanting to pull away there. If it were me I'd do the entire front end of the car ending at the back of the hood and at the doorline (even if the acutal graphics don't extend all the way back there. It will look the most like paint (they match the color of the car 'below' the graphcs so it looks like the car is under the design above it and this helps to resist pulling away more than the graphics being cut in the center of the hood or fenders. Does that make sense?

As far as design goes, it all depends on your taste and how good the designer/shop is. I'm a fan of subtle flair to things, not loud obnoxious junk. You might do something in grays or charcoals, and maybe highlight it in an accent color to bring it out more in some areas if you wanted (like reds or blues or something).

Something like this...
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1025...8281teoJFpbQvL



True fire is badass but good luck on getting someone good enough to make it look right without airbrushing it...



If you could pull it off and get it to look right, glosted 'true fire' would be badass. Have the depth but subtlety of the ghosted look

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a bare carbon fiber hood would be cool
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vinyl is for houses man dnt do it
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I'm having Sticker Dude do it, he's about the best in the biz. I saw the carbon fiber, it looks real.

I am going to do the whole hood, front fenders, and most of the area between the wheel wells.



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