How to Patch Paint your "Pearl Shining Yellow" 2000 VFR800Fi

So, I dropped my beloved VFR on her right side at about 3mph in a constitution zone; foot slipped as I tried to catch her... D'OH!

The 2000 VFR 5th Gen "Pearl Shining Yellow" was a one year only color.
A new cowl is no longer available from Honda, I'm still looking for a NOS... let me know if you have any leads.

After months (6 to be exact) of experimenting I came up with the following painting process using over the counter Testors spray cans.

1237 SEMI-GLOSS PRIMER, Testors
1214 GLOSS YELLOW, Testors
2954 DARK YELLOW, MODEL MASTER (Testors)
2978 PEARL YELLOW, MODEL MASTER (Testors) NOTE: Very light misting only, not too much !!!
1814 HIGH GLOSS CLEAR, TESTORS

Ya, sure, I could have gone the ColorRite route at $133 + shipping, but I'm too cheap and too smart for that. The five cans of Testors set me back about $30 at $6/can.

COLOR Y-124P
CODE Y124
Pearl Shining Yellow

TINK

 

Good job.. Colorite is good stuff but pricy for fixing those little oopsies..

 

WoW that is a GREAT match! Can't even tell anything happened! lol BTW your missing a fairing bolt too! Better get that on before doing some twisties! :vtr2:

 

Great job, yea can't tell by the photos. What why the bolt is missing? gota be a story in that right. .

 

Since the fix took several coats of the Testors rattlecan paint, I bet Tink has the bolt , has re-installed same and was waiting for the paint to cure at the time of the pic. Installing that type bold with it's wide shoulder over uncured paint could cause the paint to stick to the bolt and on the next removal of the fairing for whatever reason, could rip the fix. Same deal if he had used Colorrite..

The major part of the fix shows a slight shift in hue as a triangular area near the "missing" bolt.

Nonetheless, a good job and a great fix. A couple of alternative fixes can be effected with nail polish and a small artists bristle brush. Testors has a shitload of brush applied model paints as well that could be used to spot in nicks and rock chips.

 

You are correct, Badbilly, I left the bolt out for now until the paint cures.

This damage was a bit too big for a simple paint brush touch up.
I had to fill in the deeper scrapes with plastic model filler first.

 

The brush apps work best on just the small stuff like rock chips.. The brushes in nail polish are not good for this..

Usually the deeper scratches on a touchup can be filled with any of the lacquer based auto filler primers or one of the lacquer based spotting putty. The filler primer is the easiest to work with the spotting putty dries really hard and is a bear to sand.

Maybe SOW can regale us with some of the ways he does his nails. We should maybe appreciate him a little more since he provides balance by posting shit on threads that actually contain great information..