60six
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Mar 26, 2017 11:56:43 GMT
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Vanta Black is a paint which absorbs 99.9% of light - making it the blackest black in the world. Any picture of it just looks like someone cut out the object from the picture - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VantablackNow I really have to have a car this colour - but apparently there would be problems. It would get knocked into all the time as you wouldn't be able to see the edges anywhere - and not only that, you wouldn't see any damage either - you could only feel that it's there. Park it somewhere at night and you may have to wait until morning .... Nobody has painted a car in this colour yet, but I have no doubt that it will be copied by someone in China and then sold cheap. Apparently it would be like an optical illusion - in the video below a crumpled piece of tin foil has been coated. Can you imagine a car in this? It's gotta be done. |
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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Mar 26, 2017 12:13:28 GMT
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Sounds like the spaceship which crashes into the sun from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
"‘It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me out,’ said Zaphod, whose love affair with the ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. 'Every time you try and operate these weird black controls that are labeled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up in black to let you know you’ve done it.’"
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Mar 26, 2017 12:45:00 GMT
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Mar 26, 2017 18:58:35 GMT
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I think I saw a Ferrari painted with this. When I say 'think' that's because it looked more like a Ferrari shaped hole in the universe. Weird.
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Mar 26, 2017 21:22:13 GMT
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Sounds a bit like the space-invader aliens in 'Attack the Block' I for one would love a whole barrel of this paint (if Anish would allow us mortals to use it) - sooo many applications - not just murdered-out cars   |
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Mar 26, 2017 21:44:52 GMT
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^^
Guess covering your car in acetone and parking it in the freezer is just the first step then.....😁😁😁
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Colonelk
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Love to see how hot it gets inside in summer as well haha, absorbing all that light energy
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fad
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I think you would be very disappointed with the result of painting a car with it. You would lose every single detail of it. It would just be a black hole where your car should be.
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Mar 27, 2017 15:08:15 GMT
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SF5 Forester would look super-mean tho...  |
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Del
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Mar 27, 2017 17:19:55 GMT
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'I come not from Heaven, but from Essex'.
The Retro Rider formerly known as Silvermac.
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awoo
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Mar 27, 2017 17:28:44 GMT
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be good for details at least
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Sept 5, 2017 13:56:58 GMT
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fad
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Sept 5, 2017 16:12:30 GMT
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"the paint itself is somewhat fragile, and also requires several coats and baking at high temperatures in order to bind the paint to its surface. This makes its potential usage is limited."
Booo
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madmog
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Sept 9, 2017 21:03:21 GMT
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Sept 10, 2017 8:40:45 GMT
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guarantee you will see a bugatti or lambo done in this by some arab or other with more money than taste.....just because they can!!
*would it make rust invisible to an mot tester? ... just a thought!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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andyborris
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I think you would be very disappointed with the result of painting a car with it. You would lose every single detail of it. It would just be a black hole where your car should be. Saw a car, (Porsche SUV, I think!), painted in this type of paint today. On the M25 no less! Very strange, basically a set of lights and windows on a flat hole, actually hurt my eyes! I also wonder how easy it'd be to find the door handles...... |
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SF5 Forester would look super-mean tho...  grizz´s prozingo wouldn´t really win tho...  A cheap version would be a black fuzzy felt wrap. That’s what the Prozac looks like in this photo. Or that dash flock stuff |
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I think the best use on cars for vantablack would be for all the bits you don't want to see - so imagine painting the ancillaries behind the radiator grille, inside the wheel arches, even the shocks and springs - yes they'd get dirty but when clean the bright work and things you want to see - rims, chrome etc would really pop. ie: the red bits behind this anglia grille would look 'correct' if painted in vantablack as the visible hole for the actual radiator would extend to the edges as the designers clearly intended.  |
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Del
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This thread popped into my head last night while I couldn't sleep, and a couple of things came to mind.
Firstly, it appears that, like so many other things, Douglas Adams foretold of something similar to Vanta Black in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy:
And secondly, you'd have to constantly be quoting Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap:
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Last Edit: Jan 6, 2018 11:40:22 GMT by Del
'I come not from Heaven, but from Essex'.
The Retro Rider formerly known as Silvermac.
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