Wannabe racing is no stranger to custom paint.
In the last few years, many paint jobs
have left the Wannabe Racing Stables.
From custom guitars, to helmets to entire race and show cars.
If your runnin' Top Fuel Funny Car, ya gotta have one tough helmet.
Steve Neese got just what the Doctor ordered!
Painted with All X-OTIC paints, pearls and color changing powders- with Du-Pont clear
After shooting Steve's hat, the decision was made to follow that base scheme
for Buzzz'z new fresh air helmet.
Buzzz was Flirting with disaster on this helmet,
Experimenting with gold leaf, chrome effects and a mass of color change powders.
All paints are X-OTIC COLOURS bases, candies, pearls and color change powders.
All finished off with 11 various coats of Du-pont 7500 series clears.
(And pics shot from my dads new e-bay purchase- his digital camera.)
A few new hats from the last few months;
Buzzz was really happy with the color on the orange helmet, but unhappy with the paint job itself. He tried a new lining technique and it did not work as well as he had hoped. However, Paul's trademark eyeball turned out really quite nice. Something to behold in the sun.
Here are a few new guitars in production.
Check back for completed pictures in a few weeks.
The guitar on the left, nick-named "Humpty" is painted in X-otic candies over silver base on X-otic crystals. Red to orange color-changing powders were lightly dusted over the entire axe, then piled on with clear. They give it a cool look that match the sunburst shade. (Again, something to behold in person.)
But no one can really say 'piled on' when sitting next to "Mel".
Mel is drenched in 82 coats of paint. There is enough distance between the blue and the silver that the sun casts an actual shadow from the blue to the silver. But the silver is the new chrome paint on a vertical sanded background to give it a brushed aluminum look. Pretty cool in person. Tough to capture on digital imaging. Again, in 100% X-otic paints.
This one just has to be seen in person. The glimmer under the candy red is to die for.
This particular helmet was purchased off of EBAY. It was grossly misrepresented. But, rather than have to touch it to a human, for fear of catching some disease, It was cleaned out, painted and signed by all of the pro drivers that test in Tucson, Arizona. Signatures include the likes of Scotty Cannon, John Force, Del Worsham, Alan Johnson, Norm Grimes, Rick Santos, Tim Gibson, Jerry Toliver, Dale Creasy, Dean Skuza, Gary Scelzi, Bruce Sarver, Tony Pedregon, John Patton, Frank Pedregon, Doug Herbert, Mike Dunn, Jim Jannard, and countless others.
Believe it or not, this multicolored paint scheme uses only two main colors, the multiple shades of green come from a custom mix of Du-pont, House of Color, and SEM pearls.
Now we go to some Bob Johnson pictures of Jim Cowan's comp eliminator car.
And one little close-up
Builder, tuner, designer, and pilot- Jim Cowan,
If you are looking for one bad door car for one great price, give Jim a try.
After a while out of the pro stock game, Jim has returned to the building scene full time.
Here is his new car, painted in all X-OTIC candies, pearls and color change powders.
The main portion of the car fades from pearl white to pearl yellow, to paintbox yellow,
to metallic gold and then to metallic tangerine. Lots of real candies and custom gold leaf cover this car.
Here is one more from it's first pass at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. An interesting shot from Bob Johnson.You really can see the brightness of the yellow in this shot.
We are currently looking for a better picture of the 2004 Cavalier, but this will due for now.
Not only does he know what he is doing, and will build to suit,
But he is about half the price of the "Big 4" for the same product.
(If you would like to contact Jim, Click his website here. American Racecraft.com)
The funny thing is that we have yet to make one dime on any of our paint jobs.
They always cost much more in supplies than we get paid.
But it is fun being artistic, and we write it off as a hobby.
But how could you turn down color like this?
Speaking of color in the sun, just check out this X-otic Colour red over a pearl white base on Eileene.
The full page of Eileene can be seen from the projects page of wannaberacing.com
or just click HERE
Again, Wannabe Custom Color is setting new ground with color, depth and experimentation
Hand in hand with the new future of custom paints. X-otic Colours custom paint.
When I talk of class, I talk about Cadillac race cars, and X-otic Colors.
Please see this car in person! If you can count the sets of ghost flames within this ultra-complex paint job,
you will win an free autographed trading card and funny-car poster.
Wannabe Custom Color has been playing with X-OTIC Colours dry pearls.
these pearls can create just about any feel you wish in custom paint
even that of full color change characteristics, all in a dry pearl base. With the use of these dry pearls,
A painter can put effects upon any base they wish. In this new paint scheme of an Ibanez Prestige guitar,
The standard wood grain was pearled over with color change effects
Without losing the beautiful wood grain and Abalone inlay in the headstock.
The body was shot with a black base coat and applied with three undisclosed layers
of dry pearl before any clear hit the surface. Small amounts of dry pearls found their way into
the first few layers of clear coat that actually creates quite a unique 3-D feel
that unfortunately cannot be captured with a camera.
Would you expect anything less than the best the painting world had to offer with
Right about the best that Ibanez has to offer?
(Special features of this guitar are many- Including custom DiMarzio pickups, and custom electronics.
Making this guitar, as the builder says, the most versatile sounding electric guitar he has ever heard!!)
Please do not ask if you can buy this guitar. The owner made it quite clear, that he is so pleased with the final product, that "It is NOT for sale!"
These two ESP guitars were purchased stock off of the showroom floor.
They were first clothed in full custom electronics.
The Strat style in DiMarzio Air Norton and Tone Zone pickups with full single/double coil potential.
The Gibson style, named "Less-Paul" outfitted in EMG active 81 and 85's a-la Zakk Wylde.
Then came the paint. Both outfitted in numerous layers of X-otic Candy Colours.
With the use of faded, layered, sprinkled and air brushed pearls, color change powders,
And even a giant dose of holographic flakes for the strat.
A contest was created between the two, to see how many layers of clear would fit on a guitar.
Paul's strat style won that contest with just over 20 layers.
Even though these guitars were once stock, the owners decided they were altered sufficiently
To wear the distinction of "Custom"
