www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=74303
"The exterior is copper. Not copper colored. Actual copper. Which I later patina'd. It's a process I'm getting used to, and will refine, so don't expect the car to look the same the nest time I post. Might look better. Might look worse. As you can tell I take stance and wheels seriously, but little else. The exterior was a risk, and I like it."
"The finish is actually a paint with finely ground copper in it. When I finished, it looked a lot like a satin-finish version of the coppery-orange color you can get on a lot of newer cars... leaving it that way would have looked a little halfass, but then again that wasn't ever an option in my mind. I didn't buy a commercial patina creating solution because I've done some work with copper before and knew that I could get close with a homebrew solution. Pretty neat too, when it hits the surface, it becomes shiny like a new penny(not for long though). I'm still getting a handle on how this stuff weathers. On its own, it won't go green for a long, long time, but what has gone green does wash away bit by bit, and that bright orangey color has dimmed substantially in the last week. It's moving towards a true copper brown. This weekend I'm redoing the roof, getting it as thick as possible... then I'll patina it, and once I get the deep blues and greens I want, I'll clear it some.
By the end of winter I expect the salt to create some interesting patterns."
*eyes up Corsa with intent*
"The exterior is copper. Not copper colored. Actual copper. Which I later patina'd. It's a process I'm getting used to, and will refine, so don't expect the car to look the same the nest time I post. Might look better. Might look worse. As you can tell I take stance and wheels seriously, but little else. The exterior was a risk, and I like it."
"The finish is actually a paint with finely ground copper in it. When I finished, it looked a lot like a satin-finish version of the coppery-orange color you can get on a lot of newer cars... leaving it that way would have looked a little halfass, but then again that wasn't ever an option in my mind. I didn't buy a commercial patina creating solution because I've done some work with copper before and knew that I could get close with a homebrew solution. Pretty neat too, when it hits the surface, it becomes shiny like a new penny(not for long though). I'm still getting a handle on how this stuff weathers. On its own, it won't go green for a long, long time, but what has gone green does wash away bit by bit, and that bright orangey color has dimmed substantially in the last week. It's moving towards a true copper brown. This weekend I'm redoing the roof, getting it as thick as possible... then I'll patina it, and once I get the deep blues and greens I want, I'll clear it some.
By the end of winter I expect the salt to create some interesting patterns."
*eyes up Corsa with intent*
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All i can say is wow..... 
