What Is Patina?

Impressive designs. i want to simulate it in Vampire Survivors

It looks like it’s been scorned, abused, and best of all ‘outlined’ for the first time at a destructive derby. I like the way you write. More experiences at bitlife.

Patina è un termine italiano per definire un oggetto che racconta tutta la sua storia, il suo fascino, le vicende trascorse.
La patina conserva l’anima delle persone che hanno posseduto un certo oggetto, senza curarsi del trascorrere del tempo.
Un misto di profumi, odori che non sono più comuni e dimenticati, parti consumate ma non trascurate che regalano una “patina” appunto che rende non solo bello qualcosa, ma unico.
La patina non si compra e non si restaura. Si acquisisce col tempo.
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Patina is an Italian word to define an object that tells all its history, its charm, the story spent.
The patina preserves the soul of the people who have owned a certain object, regardless of the passage of time.
A mixture of scents and smells that are no longer common and forgotten, worn parts, but do not neglectful that offer a “patina” that just makes something not only beautiful, but unique.
The patina is not bought and not restored. Is acquired over time.
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Also, as long as we are on this topic–Bugatti owners are the biggest fetishizers of patina and also the biggest fakers of it. Most Bugattis with all this amazing “wabi sabi” are made to look the way they do–not as an incidental by product of history and use. I find this to be rather distasteful and pretentious. Furthermore, I think people in our hobby have increasingly inverted the meanings of the words “preservation” and “neglect.” the cars that fetch big dollars at auction are the ones that are either over-restored or utterly f*cked while the ones that are original and slightly imperfect –the preserved ones–are “restoration candidates” that get resprayed and retrimmed, losing all their original surfaces. What a shame.

At a Concours event, patina is what everyone is looking at while they ignore the other restorations

I agree it ‘s all about preservation and proper maintenance. Objects that have aged gracefully have their beauty enhanced by the aging process and patina is the record of a life well lived. It’s irreplaceable and not restoreable, once it’s gone it’s gone. Restoration has to maintain an objects patina otherwise it loses it’s soul.

This D Type had a bit of a knock in a race at Silverstone a few years, I took a quick picture and didn’t expect to see it again for a few months. The following week I saw it again bearing it’s scars very gracefully and looking all the better for it. To strip and rebuild that car and erase all that history would be criminal.