White mini..

[sk8tepenguin]

What colour white best hides/matches the stripes on the '98 Mini Cooper?

 

[JBanton]

Why would you want to do that? The last of the British Minis were characterised by those bonnet stripes.

 

[sk8tepenguin]

Because white Mini with white stripes looks crap lol

 

[watermelon punch]

I try to match the wheels to the white of the mini... Each time, I tend to go through 2 or 3 white paint chips to match it. Today I found a "classic white" that seemed to do well. Whether it would actually match up on the car itself to hide the stripes, I'm not sure.

 

[AerodyManiac]

I tried doing that too, but no good - you can see the stripes immediately
Of course, if you insist doing that, I'd suggest Swan White, but I could be using the wrong colour. Try Pearl Paints.

 

[watermelon punch]

I thought the one guy in our Mini Race did a pretty good job:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=6697482#post6697482

His name is PNuTButR
Maybe ask him.
I'd have to take another closer look at the car in the replay to really say for sure that it's seamless. But it did look pretty solid to me in the race and the photomodes I took.

 

[PNuTButR]

Yeah I used Candy-Weiß

 

[watermelon punch]

Yeah I used Candy-Weiß

Oh yeah, that's right... when I copy/pasted it, the font didn't show for that ß then, so I wasn't even sure what it was.
I've never seen that paint chip to be honest.
I wonder was it a pearl?
I was thinking it would be best to use a solid. But now that someone else said try a pearl paint chip... maybe that makes sense. There is a sort of gloss to the white stripe & top of the mini.

It did look pretty seamless. But then I didn't really walk right up to the car in the replay and examine it closely. haha.

 

[PNuTButR]

I don't know what type it was :/ if I recieved it with a car, It was probably a German car

 

[watermelon punch]

I don't know what type it was :/ if I recieved it with a car, It was probably a German car

You can think that... But I wouldn't be super certain about that. I swear I once got some arancio mellatallazato kind of colour on some Japanese sedan or something once. (One would assume that would be found on an Italian model. )

Append: I tried looking up Candy-Weiß in the Marketplace forum, to no avail.
All that came up was posts with "Blanco Candy" paint chips... which MAY be the same, in a different manufacturer (not German?)

 

[sk8tepenguin]

I think I have a candy-Weiß, I tried swan white and that was pretty close. I'll try this candy-weiß and get back to you, thanks guys!

 

[sk8tepenguin]

Nope, swan white is better than candy-weiß.

 

[p78]

candy-weiß = vw