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Location: The way to hell is paved by good intentions “Wenn ich Purist höre...entsichere ich meinen Browning” "Myths are fuel for marketing (and nowadays for flippers too,,,)" time to time is not sufficient to be a saint, you must be also an Hero
Do you know anything about the NSX blue,
Nouvelle Blue Pearl? From pictures I thought
it was a lot like Aqua but I saw one yesterday
and it looked all irridescent in the sun, much
more than I realized.
Not until you brought it up. Acura is offering
two such special finishes for the NSX. This
'blau' & 'Valencia Red Pearl'. They refer to
this special paint as 'Chromatic Art':
The 'special magic sauce' here seems to be the
ANDARO® paint technology developed by PPG &
which Acura is using on these two 'Pearl' colors.
PPG is obviously very proud of its product:
"Andaro® is a nano-particle aerospace innovation
applied to the NSX to create automotive art — the
ultimate supercar finish. Its pure chromatic color
and bottomless layered depths are incomparable."
It also benefits the Acura from a 20 hours paint
process that individually paints & hand-finishes
each NSX. That includes:
"Multi-step preparation leads to e-coat, two coats
of primer, five coats of basecoat and two layers of
clear coat before 16 hours of in-process curing.
Once cured, the entire car is hand-sanded and
wiped down, and given another two layers of clear
coat. In the case of Andaro paint, there are several
additional layers of nano-particle clear coat applied
throughout the process."
"Each car is then individually inspected by the paint
team, and a wave-scan tool objectively measures
the texture of the surface to ensure there are no
imperfections — even those not visible to the human
eye. The result is lush, layered color with translucent
shine and depth, for a dynamic effect that accentuates
the car’s architectural lines and contrasting surfaces.
Engineers call this “color flop,” and the result is striking,
fluid beauty that shifts from angle to angle."
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Originally Posted by Dewinator
Can you PTS in a color like that?
Porsche could if it wanted to. Porsche employed BASF
(Glasurit) & used their super expensive 'Liquid Metal'
paint process for the 918. But at a high price! And
it could ask PPG to create an Andaro® paint process
similar to what Acura is using for these new Pearl colors.
Who knows...perhaps the new 'Saffron Metallic Pearl'
is this, or similar, technology!
But keep this in mind, Porsche is not going to invest
in a new paint technology just to create a PTS color
like 'Nouvelle Blue Pearl' to satisfy the request of
one picky customer!
So in short, the most probable answer to your question
is....'Nein, you will likely not get a PTS color like that!'
Saludos,
Eduardo
Scottsdale
Last edited by Z356; 06-02-2017 at 03:36 PM.
Reason: Changed to latest photo some think might be the real 'Saffron'!
But keep this in mind, Porsche is not going to invest
in a new paint technology just to create a PTS color
like 'Nouvelle Blue Pearl' to satisfy the request of
one picky customer!
So in short, the most probable answer to your question
is....'Nein, you will likely not get a PTS color like that!'
Wow thanks for all the info! I assumed it was just like, a bucket of paint with a different color. It's a bummer because they should do paint like that! It really looks nothing like the pictures, I've never seen anything like it.
That drabby PTS 'Mintgrün' RS can only dream of having
the vibrant/bold hue of this 1955 MG A Roadster from the
UK that has competed in several Mille Miglias:
Porsche could if it wanted to. Porsche employed BASF
(Glasurit) & used their super expensive 'Liquid Metal'
paint process for the 918. But at a high price! And
it could ask PPG to create an Andaro® paint process
similar to what Acura is using for these new Pearl colors.
Who knows...perhaps the new 'Saffron Metallic Pearl'
is this, or similar, technology!
Saludos,
Eduardo
Scottsdale
Eduardo, I learned very recently from an internal source that this is NOT Saffron Yellow. Saffron will be much more golden. This is a digitally enhanced Signal Yellow. Very interesting to see a PTS example on a press car.
Yana at PCNA Exclusive also told me same thing: that the pics of that yellow GT3 are NOT saffron as far as she has heard.
It does seem extremely unlikely that Porsche would put a preproduction GT3 out in public in a new exclusive color that they are saying will only be avail on new Turbo.
Also, I'm a photographer and photo editor, and those pics of that yellow car do look enhanced to me. That is, the yellow car looks far warmer and more saturated that the natural light in its surroundings suggest it should.
My belief: the car in the pics is actually either racing yellow (most likely) or else even Lava or Guards Red, and it was a simple matter of changing the hue, saturation and lightness of the color of the car, which is easy to do in photoshop, and which looks very convincing, especially if done on a high quality RAW original image file.
Upon further inspection of the image it's obvious the car is actually racing yellow and was photoshopped....
look ok at the part of the rear wing that's visible through the glass vs the part that's seen outside the glass. The part as seen through the glass is obviously racing yellow, and whoever made this pic did a poor job of selecting the colors to change and missed that. While he color as seen through the glas would be darkened, it would not appear lighter in color or so desaturated through the glass as it does.
Yana at PCNA Exclusive also told me same thing: that the pics of that yellow GT3 are NOT saffron as far as she has heard.
It does seem extremely unlikely that Porsche would put a preproduction GT3 out in public in a new exclusive color that they are saying will only be avail on new Turbo.
Also, I'm a photographer and photo editor, and those pics of that yellow car do look enhanced to me. That is, the yellow car looks far warmer and more saturated that the natural light in its surroundings suggest it should.
My belief: the car in the pics is actually either racing yellow (most likely) or else even Lava or Guards Red, and it was a simple matter of changing the hue, saturation and lightness of the color of the car, which is easy to do in photoshop, and which looks very convincing, especially if done on a high quality RAW original image file.
Thanks for the insight!
Originally Posted by Lapis
Upon further inspection of the image it's obvious the car is actually racing yellow and was photoshopped....
look ok at the part of the rear wing that's visible through the glass vs the part that's seen outside the glass. The part as seen through the glass is obviously racing yellow, and whoever made this pic did a poor job of selecting the colors to change and missed that. While he color as seen through the glas would be darkened, it would not appear lighter in color or so desaturated through the glass as it does.
I believe this is actually Signal Yellow. I initially found it hard to believe Porsche would opt for a PTS color on a press car (see plates). However, I found an unfiltered shot of the car which definitely points to Signal Yellow. See below:
Why so confident that pic is unfiltered? You didn't shoot it, right?
while the pic might be legit, it would be just as easy to make that car look like Signal yellow if it were in fact racing yellow in under a minute in photoshop.
This thread is very skimpy in pictures of the Miami Blue that's available on the new 991.2 GT3. Anyone have decently representative pictures they could post please? In particular I'd love to see it with different wheel choices like Black, Titanium (gun metal) and silver.
Eduardo, I learned very recently from an internal
source that this is NOT Saffron Yellow. Saffron will
be much more golden. This is a digitally enhanced
Signal Yellow. Very interesting to see a PTS example
on a press car.
Wait a second. I saw it posted by this color savvy guy in
Instagram & he sounded so sure it was indeed 'Saffron'!!!
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Just pulling your leg, Will. In point of fact Lapis brought it up
to our attention at the 'GT3 Configurator Changes' thread five
days ago, so we knew already!
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Nevertheless I included a photo of the 'Signal Yellow' gt3
as a fill-in for elusive 'Saffron Metallic Pearl' in my post
#213 just to point out that the new Pearl color from Porsche might be done in a process similar to the fancy NSX Pearl.
But who knows.
That drabby PTS 'Mintgrün' RS can only dream of having
the vibrant/bold hue of this 1955 MG A Roadster from the
UK that has competed in several Mille Miglias:
For those who like the color and Clubsport package, and were thinking of importing it from JPN, it's a wrap;
05-21-2017, 02:51 PM
