Project X Nears Completion

[Han]

Oxer wins. Matte houndstooth. Luci is going to lay a X5-shaped stencil over the body, spray the white half, and then do the black half.

If he messes up, he starts over from scratch. Re-sanding down, then the stencil laying.

He might be here for a week or two. Or three.

...Not sure if serious, but

[FluidMotorUnion]

...Not sure if serious, but

I was only being halfway serious.

He's actually doing the whole houndsy pattern by hand, no stencils.

[Oxer]

Im fucking dying

[Han]

[Oxer]

hahaha... Fuck you Han,




the game.

[Kielan]

Fuck you Ox.

[FluidMotorUnion]

the game.

God damn it, Oxer.

I hadn't lost the game in the better part of a year.

And for that, I'm now boiling it down to the wire:

Everybody gets one last guess. There is a prize.

Remember the hints:

-Think big.
-Not from this place, nor this time.
-There have been a lot of "close" answers, closer to the 2nd and 3rd pages.

[Oxer]

Are you ready?











feldgrau














ZEEE GERMANS ARE COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STANZEIT!

[Kielan]

Matte, southern soldier civil war era gray, metallic.

[Oxer]

Matte, southern soldier civil war era gray, metallic.

Soldiers aren't big compared to a tank

[Kielan]

They had warships as well...

[Kielan]

Damnit I just thought of this.

Same color as a German U-Boat, in matte of course.

[FluidMotorUnion]

feldgrau

ZEEE GERMANS ARE COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STANZEIT!

Ladies and gentlemen, it pains me to the fucking bone to say this, but Oxer won. Somehow. I had to check with Eastway to get the color's actual name, but holy shit, right on the button.

Feldgrau is German Field Grey, the matte color typically used on German tanks from the WWII era. We felt that since the X5 will basically become a fucking tank, it was only a fitting color.

I still don't know how he came up with this. Frankly, I'm amazed. Amazed, shocked, saddened, everything at once.

Paint's drying right now, but I won't put up any more teasers. You know the color, you've seen the car (most of it, not the fun stuff we made for it), and very soon you'll get a whole build thread to pour over. We're currently scoping out badass places to take our photoshoot; AJ's got a great place in Joliet that we're looking into.

And for the winner, you receive what is more or less a trinket. From that black E92 with the love-or-notlove-it ADV.1 wheels, you'll be receiving a 2" x 2" aluminum plate with the FMU logo CNC'ed on it.

I was going to keep it to myself, but hell, for that lucky of a guess you deserve something, ya know?

[kartikeya]

Didn't somebody already post matte gray?

But ok, props to Oxer for being right on the button.

[Oxer]

FMU > me > everyone else.


I thought, bmw = german... German past = nazi.... nazi = war = tanks and volkswagens.