Well I started my lotus for the group build and wanted to something entirely different than all the engine swaps you see, so I choose to paint my caterham in a black/green marble effect. Hope you like the result eventough it's not finished yet. Needs a lot of polishing , clearing, polishing, clearing...

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/502/328708cater11-med.JPG


http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/502/328708cater21-med.JPG

damn I posted it in the wrong section. Could it be moved to the WIP-street section? THX

This looks great. Good idea and execution. Looking forward to see it all polished up.

But isn't the Lotus 7 supposed to be light? :grinyes:

This looks great. Good idea and execution. Looking forward to see it all polished up.

But isn't the Lotus 7 supposed to be light? :grinyes:


oh well a little slab of marble here, there... mmm perhaps i should have to strengthen the suspension. ;-)

Looks really good. Hopefully that sucker will shine up real good too :)

That looks very sick. Definatly not something you see often, actually i havnt seen anyone do that. A nice set of gunmetal or black rims and itd look killer, imo. Definatly keep us posted, great start! :grinyes:

I love "off the wall" ideas :thumbsup:

12/10 for originality :lol:

I'd love to know in more detail how you went about painting that effect. I read something once on the Iwata tips site but didn't really understand it :(

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

W:eek: W！！！this is totally amazing!!!!:eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

That's a totally crazy looking paint job! :smokin: After clearing and polishing, I expect it really will look like polished marble. It looks stunning. Gonna tell us how you did it?

Cool idea, one I would have never thought of. I could see it as a 1:1 being shown off at a Seven club event- "Marble? Nah, the car was originally British Racing Green- but it's seen a bit too much sunlight, and this is what happened after some fading and cracking!" :lol:

That's a totally crazy looking paint job! :smokin: After clearing and polishing, I expect it really will look like polished marble. It looks stunning. Gonna tell us how you did it?

Cool idea, one I would have never thought of. I could see it as a 1:1 being shown off at a Seven club event- "Marble? Nah, the car was originally British Racing Green- but it's seen a bit too much sunlight, and this is what happened after some fading and cracking!" :lol:


No, I'm not going to tell you how I've done it. It's MY idee and i don't want anybody to steal it ;-)

Just kidding. As soon I have some spare time I'll make detailed step by step with pictures how I've done it. I could explain it just by typing a text, but nobody would understand it without pictures. It's not that hard at all and you don't even need an airbrush to make the marble. I painted the entire car in about 2 hours, but there will be a LOT of clearing and polishing involved.

My finished car is posted here:

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=4522024#post4522024