'87 Cannondale (or should I say "Haringdale"?)

You should see the head tube and chain stays....

That is bloody superb!

So cool
congrats

Excellent stuff! What type of paint pen did you use?

My "hot pink" plan was eventually derailed . I got a paint code from DuPont (F2576) after quite a few emails and phone calls but it turns out this hasn’t been matched on the paints they use in Europe (no demand; can’t think why!) and in order to get the exact colour, DuPont would have had to send a colour sample to their facility in Belgium for colour matching for the total sales of 250ml…

I did get a rattle can of the closest available match (Imron® S4631) and sent Brian a sample but his SM800 was stolen the night after the sample arrived and he wasn’t able to get a photo of the two together! He did say they were close though…

I sprayed up some cards with the pink, but against such a vivid background my experiments with the Uni Posca paint pens looked swamped, plus the pink SM800 only came as a 24”/26”, so it wouldn’t have been quite “right”. I struggled to reconcile these two for a few weeks but eventually I decided to go with white as this would give the best background for the intended graphics, it is right for an SM800 i.e. 2x26” and as a nod to the hot pink I plan to paint the stem this colour (it will look hideous!) . I also enrolled (press ganged) my brother into drawing the graphics as he’s storyboard artist at Aardman Animation and he drew them free hand in 5 hours.

Here we go... What do you think?

Who did that ??? It's bloody awesome !!!

Decided against the pink stem then mate! Looks just stunning

Do you have most of the parts for the rebuild yet?

Where is the emoticon for 'pushing the envelope of cool'?

I showed it to the other half and she said "I want it. How much is it?" :roll:

That. Is very sweet

Love it