Challenge Livery Help Needed ! (maybe some Photo Shop help too?)

Team Barely Functional Racing needs your help. (link to build thread)

We're leaving for the Challenge in 17 days and our car needs some Race Livery to be photogenic for the magazine / Concours judging.  We won't be painting the whole car this year, so we'd like some suggestions for vinyl application of simple themes to help the car pop.  Here's our current thoughts, best idea, but we could use some help developing it further or some alternative ideas.  It's a Miata chassis running gear with a Volvo hat car on top. (hence the Japanese rising sun in Swedish flag colors, thats to Micheal Dusterb13 for the idea )

It'll have to wait until after working hours, but I might have a few ideas. 

First of all, are you sure you want to do something that complex over the whole car? You might want to just do a design like that on the hood and do the rest of the car in a solid color. You should also choose a base color to cover up the whole car in and then do the rising sun pattern in the other color - I'm thinking a blue car with a yellow rising sun.

Also a parody Ikea logo and some reference to a meatball need to be snuck in....maybe some parody Ikea instructions too

Do the whole car in white epoxy primer with a big Swedish flag laid out catty cornered on the hood to make it look like the Japanese Rising Sun flag but just Swedish

A couple of more angles of the car for photo shop fodder 

We do have a hood. 

Doing the whole car in blue with the yellow cross overlaid like sports stripes could be a cool look and would be fairly easy to do. The rising sun pattern could be put on part of the hood partitioned off by a stripe.

I think you nailed it.  However, I'd maybe simplify it a little with less "rays" that are wider.  Make make it pop more.

Very crude, but we were thinking maybe the trunk:

In reply to GameboyRMH :

The car will eventually be painted blue. Just not this year.  We only want to hit the remaining bare metal bits with epoxy primer (gray) and use vinyl laid on for this year.  The vinyl is easily removed after the challenge, when we have time to do a good paint job.

In that case why not use some blue and yellow plaid vinyl And just half ass wrap the car Period Then a couple of Large round meatball Number panels for your numbers On the doors

Unless most Challenge cars, this one has naturally good lines. You don't need much livery for it to shine compared to its competition. A single, solid color would look great. A meatball for the number, and maybe a single strip. The sponsor stickers will fill in the rest. 

That leftover turqoise on the door would be great on the whole car.

Blue with yellow stripes  motif works for me as a minimalist thing.

Will the writing/notes remain on the sides or will they be removed?  

How about some simple Mazda lower graphics just to clearly call it out?  $60, I'm not sure of the is $60 gets you two sides (not a bad price) or $120 for two sides (steep.)  

Geometric shapes like these or these, sort of randomized can get you more coverage than a solid but can be solid where needed

I never did but I had planned a similar, self cut triangle sort of motif for an Inifiniti that never made it to the show.  The car had significant sections of clearcoat gone and I was going to hide that (in pictures at least) with triangles of vinyl but leave the good paint still to be seen in other areas.