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Good question, tinted black yes, but you would still get the carbon grey/black effect depending on the light source direction when veiwing it

I've used black tinted resin on the McLaren F1 supercar but this was to disguise any resin rich areas as some of the car was not painted and the standard amber coloured resin would really highlight poorly laminated corners

I think you can buy brightly tinted resin but I have never seen it used with carbon for structural panels, only decorative fibreglass parts.

With the F1 road car and GTR Le Mans GT1 race cars, the cars painted by a road car paint shop were around a lot of kgs heavier than the cars painted by a paint shop that had plenty of experience painting the Brabham F1 race cars.

I keep meaning to talk to some paint shops that paint F1 cars so I can try and rank the different colours according to weight as I'm building a lightweight 964 C2 and am exploring every way I can think of to reduce weight.

From memory of conversations long past past British Racing Green is a heavy colour, white isn't that lightweight due to the titanium dioxide they used for the pigment but not as heavy as black.
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