View Poll Results: Should I paint?

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  • LEAVE IT!!!

    18 40.91%
  • Flat black

    7 15.91%
  • OD Green (Olive drab)

    19 43.18%
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    ive always thought about a deep dark blue metallic, if thats what its called, dark like dragon green, foxfire red, bluewhale finpit blue, i dont know, im just real partial to blue tones, it would defenatly be different.
    oh well, just my .02


    durrrrr, i forgot to look at what the poll was hey, im tired, running on little sleep, and little healthy food......of THOSE choices, i would go with the drab, defenatly!!!

    sorry, my bad.......ignore the man behind the curtain......

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    A textured desert camo khaki..........

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    Something like this maybe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrnCnn


    Something like this maybe?
    Looks like a cheap 70's sofa!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Triathlete
    Looks like a cheap 70's sofa!
    Paint little black 'chevy' bowties in the center of the headlights and you can drive down the street, windows down, loudly blaring Kermit the Frog - while you sing along:

    It's not that easy being green
    Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
    When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold
    Or something much more colorful like that

    It's not easy being green
    It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
    And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
    Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
    Or stars in the sky

    But green's the color of Spring
    And green can be cool and friendly-like
    And green can be big like an ocean, or important
    Like a mountain, or tall like a tree

    When green is all there is to be
    It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why
    Wonder, I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
    And I think it's what I want to be


    After that, you can dig up a recording of "Movin' right along"
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    Make it an olive MartiniCROSS!
    Sent from my "two hands on a keyboard"

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    definetely not the puke green!way outdated,but the m&m green looks bad ***

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    Quote Originally Posted by Triathlete
    Looks like a cheap 70's sofa!
    Glad I didnt live in the 70's.

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    Well it wouldnt be that exact green. I would like it a little more towards a Kaki color.

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    Hmmm, I vote Olive Drab since it is the closest thing to flat khaki. I would love to see a VX in flat, desert tan. Paint the cladding and all the plastic flat black and the rest flat desert khaki. But olive drab would look just as cool. I was actually just at the Ace Hardware in Lemmon Valley and they have flat, camo spray paint colors! Trust me, the thought crossed my mind. But I love my stealthy black wasteland VX.

    And Clint, not that you want to sell, but I would say that if you paint, you had better be 100% ready to keep your VX for a long time. This is a heavily personalized mod, that will make resale value plummit. Just something to think about. Other than that, go for it! Just get ready for me to call upon you to take part in some upcoming movie projects I have in mind...I would love to have a fleet of wasteland VXes for a certain scene....oh yeah.

    Bart

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    OD flat green, the real ARMY green, that is, with a big white star on the doors. heheh
    42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

  12. #12

    color(s) for VX

    If I was going to go all out I would get about 4 colors: Black, dark gray, light gray, and a bluish gray, and do a urban camo pattern using hard angles. Take a look at old battleship camo or Swedish M90 camo for ideas.

    Its off the wall, and would require some sketching and masking but would be one of a kind.

    When I deploy I am always on the lookout for interesting camo patterns.
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    Paint tip

    Hi,

    Although many people paint their vehicles in flat black (or other color) primer, and like the effect; one should still consider that flat primer is not a very protective coating --still needs to be sealed.

    Just a thought.

    Regards,

    Mark

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    I like shiny things but if going flat I would consider Camo green It would look like a new military vehicle

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrnCnn
    Glad I didnt live in the 70's.

    Lemme tell ya, it was ROUGH !

    Godawful green sofas in every living room, burnt orange carpeting...EVERYWHERE, freakin' Barry Manilow coming out of every speaker...sometimes even in stereo...the 70's my friend, was not a decade for the faint of heart...

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