Massive progress
So this is my first go at painting a bike (properly with laquer and decals and so forth)
And I figured if I was going to paint it, I would make it a little different
So I took some liberties made up my own colourway and sweet talked the mighty gil_m into doing the decals accordingly, which are amazing and gorgeous!
So here's the bike all base coated and flatted back ready for decals:
- I had had these decals kicking around for a long time and I think that gave me some unexpected challenges
One of them had got a bit contaminated with something:
And the gold really wanted to cling to the backing in preference to the application tape:
Scary stuff never worked with decals before... Got away with it though, starting to look pretty cool too
Here she is all clearcoated up:
And the forks:
Oh man am I pleased with my work today
So this is my first go at painting a bike (properly with laquer and decals and so forth)
And I figured if I was going to paint it, I would make it a little different
So I took some liberties made up my own colourway and sweet talked the mighty gil_m into doing the decals accordingly, which are amazing and gorgeous!
So here's the bike all base coated and flatted back ready for decals:
- I had had these decals kicking around for a long time and I think that gave me some unexpected challenges
One of them had got a bit contaminated with something:
And the gold really wanted to cling to the backing in preference to the application tape:
Scary stuff never worked with decals before... Got away with it though, starting to look pretty cool too
Here she is all clearcoated up:
And the forks:
Oh man am I pleased with my work today