First Edition colours - first-hand impressions...

[digilotus]

Holy smokes! That is mean, I think gloss black >>>> diamond cut but only my opinion

As in gloss black is better than or needs to be replaced with diamond cut?

 

[Wizardwings]

As in gloss black is better than or needs to be replaced with diamond cut?

Gloss black better than diamond cut by far

 

[Johnson]

I'm considering the 'mafia pack' but with red leather.

Whipped this up to convince myself but still on the fence. Maybe diamond cut wheels might add a bit more visual interest but they're harder to photochop

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Damn, that looks phenomenal @digilotus!

Is the dark grey that light though? I had the impression it was almost the same shade as the black pack...

 

[firstlotus]

Having seen cars complete, or near complete in all colours yesterday, my thoughts are below:

Hethel Yellow - exactly as I expected it to be meaning most photos have been representative. When i was mixing the colour for my painting of a Hethel Yellow Emira https://www.emiraforum.com/threads/emira-art.870/post-17881 it comprised cadmium yellow hue, white to reduce the colour saturation and orange to warm it up, which looks like it got me very close. Great looking with or without full black pack.

Seneca - this seemed a little darker than I remember it from the roadshow, but that was probably the lighting inside. Metallic not very evident in this light, still a great signature colour.

Nimbus (the most debated of all?!) Slightly Darker and warmer than a regular silver, such as Porsche's arctic silver but still a relatively light colour. Classy as heel and good with or without full BP -saw both.

Dark Verdant - well, it's dark! Only saw this indoors so I was moving my viewing point as much as poss to see what happened when the light hit it at different angles. It does read as very dark indoors, highlights will pop outdoors and even more in sunshine. As per my painting, there is a strong blue component - this means the dark parts read almost as a very very dark teal. In my view this is preferable to warmer green which can have a brown or black component to it when very dark. so it is a "cool" dark green in more ways than one and remains my choice. See https://www.emiraforum.com/threads/more-emira-art-this-time-dv.1061/post-26066 for my take on it in acrylics on canvas.


I have somewhere very important to be so will conclude on Shadow and Magma later!

Thanks for the comments - did you happen to see how dark the Privacy Glass was and what is your impression of it...?

 

[digilotus]

Damn, that looks phenomenal @digilotus!

Is the dark grey that light though? I had the impression it was almost the same shade as the black pack...

This photo was taken under bright lights, so in the wild it will be a bit darker and more moody, with more subtle contrast. However in strong light it won't be too far off.

Below is an adjusted body shell colour to make it darker and probably a bit more realistic.

 

[ADC]

This photo was taken under bright lights, so in the wild it will be a bit darker and more moody, with more subtle contrast. However in strong light it won't be too far off.

Its a bit hard to adjust the colour balance without compressing the dark areas too much but here we go...

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Man... option black calipers and you are practically driving a baby batmobile. Probably a little too gangster for me... probably. 🤔

Thanks a bunch for stirring up my uncertainty again. 🤬😁

 

[PaperLawyer]

I'm tinkering with the online configator again (damn Nimbus for potentially threatening Magma!) and the brake caliper rendering is all over the place - choosing certain calipers made the alloys black and certain choices made the rear caliper disappear!

I wonder if a configurator upgrade is happening today, hence the disruption?

 

[digilotus]

Dark Verdant 'mafia pack' 🤔

 

[digilotus]

Magma pack 🤔

 

[BeHappy]

Damn, that looks phenomenal @digilotus!

Is the dark grey that light though? I had the impression it was almost the same shade as the black pack...

I thought that this photo looks lighter than car I’ve seen at factory

 

[digilotus]

Nimbus pack

 

[digilotus]

I thought that this photo looks lighter than car I’ve seen at factory

The base photo I used for these was taken under bright overhead lights so might be somewhat over exposed. I've created an adjusted (darker) photo above to try to compensate so should be closer.

 

[freefall_junkie]

Seeing the renders above I am more convinced that black wheels are the way to go. I was on the fence with the diamond cut wheels to start with but I have really gone off the squared off petal look now - for me it detracts from the Emira's flowing lines.

Looking forward to seeing all the color/wheel options at the factory next week

 

[xen]

If those are close to actual colours then magma looks incredible.

 

[digilotus]

Can those who went to Hethel let me know if i got the colours about right? All I had was close up photos of sample discs that I took a while back and my artists eye. Nimbus was particularly difficult, but I think its kind of close!

 

[Daz]

Magma pack 🤔

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Now this is pure unadulterated car porn, if it comes looking like this then I’m selling my house and moving into it

 

[eclat2emira]

If the white car is Aspen White as intended for the extra 13 Base colours then it's a pearlescent paint. The white car I saw in January was Aspen and looked great.

Pearlescent - nice! It looked a lot less sparkly than Aston's pearlescent white which was a bit too jazzy for a DBS or anything else in my opinion.

 

[eclat2emira]

Nimbus pack
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That looks very close to what I saw in the factory (3 end to end!) - with and without BP. The light/dark level is about right, it could be a tiny smidge warmer but we are talking very fine margins here. The gloss level is also very good - nice work!

 

[eclat2emira]

Magma pack 🤔

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That's pretty close, I'd say it's a little more intense, a little more red with slightly greater colour saturation than the one I saw.

 

[eclat2emira]

Dark Verdant 'mafia pack' 🤔

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The dark areas are close - they are really dark in the flesh. DV is so light sensitive it is hard to judge the rest, it would take quite a bit of overhead lighting or direct sunlight for the upper surfaces to read as light as that - it's not far off though and the hue is pretty good.