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Geoff1951

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Smoke beige - not the most photogenic of colours
« on: 20 January 2012, 01:51:36 PM »
Finally got round to posting a photo. Taken pre-Hirsch suspension.
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Re: Smoke beige - not the most photogenic of colours
« Reply #1 on: 20 January 2012, 01:56:28 PM »
Do you use that car Geoff? Looks to clean to me.......................................

I shall have to get a decent sponge and give mine a clean up and show how nice my winter wheels are!

I have the excuse of a nice new Nikon camera to play with to show its curves?

Mine is what I call metallic putty/primer but I believe it is known as silver. Did prefer my black best but this looks nice when clean and doesn't look dirty when it actually is!

Your colour has a sort of verdi gris look about it
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Re: Smoke beige - not the most photogenic of colours
« Reply #2 on: 20 January 2012, 03:29:26 PM »
Cheers Jim.

Photo taken 28/2/09, 63k up. Now done 98.7k. When it's clean, polished, and the black bits done, it still looks great in the metal. Autoglym for everything.
As in my heading, smoke beige doesn't photograph well, I've tried it loads of times. In daylight, it has different tones (but not like those "flip" colours) depending on the quality and angle of the sun. Goes from a deep coppery gold to a really dark bronze. And I see there are lots of Mercs around now in a similar metallic brown.

Now, where did I leave my hat?
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