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Bigp
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Hi
I've bought a firestorm at the start of the year it's a red one but it looks like it may have been resprayed, is the standard red r157 a metallic red or a flat red as mine is metallic.
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Re: Paint

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Bigp wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 1:09 pm Hi
I've bought a firestorm at the start of the year it's a red one but it looks like it may have been resprayed, is the standard red r157 a metallic red or a flat red as mine is metallic.
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i dont have a red one, but from memory R-157 paint is NOT metallic. so it sounds like you might have a respray
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My red one was R-157 and wasn't metallic.
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Thanks guys, I'll have to see if I can find which metallic they have used 😡
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