Pics of the new paint, I couldn't wait

I Just couldn't wait to post a few pics of the new paint... I hope to get it all back together on Sat. I have to get some rubber washers for the bolts...:biggrin:

 

Man, you don't waste any time! Can't wait to see it finished...

 

That looks real cool. I hope that you don't mind if I copy you?

 

How did you get that marble look. I like it. good luck

 

There's two ways to do it... The old school way was to lay regular car paint, two colors, three coats each... in between each coat you lay plastic wrap on the paint while it's tacky and tear it off...

House of Kolor now makes what they call marbleizer paint that you can do in two coats... You lay the base coat color then put the marbleizer over that once and then plastic wrap it... It's much easier but the colors are not infinate... Their kinda wierd also because the blue marble is blue but only when it's painted over black... If you spray it over a white base it's pink...

Look up House of Kolor on the net, Their paint is insaine and the clear coat looks like it's dripping wet... I'm VERY happy about how it turned out and I've almost got it back together:biggrin:

 

I just puot mine back together, I have an 85 vf1000r. I painted it black using a single stage paint system. I am really happy with the result. just trying to decide on what grafix to put on it. might get the original decals and do a monochromatic look to it. the bike is now all black with a silver frame.

 

I painted a short bed chevy one time with marbleizer..awesome look. I just went with a caddy color on mine ;turned out very good...

 

That looks like House of Color Candy... I love the candy colors, that was my problem. I couldn't decide what colors to pick. It took about two weeks or so of sketching before I finally came up w/what I got. I just printed a couple pics off the site of different views and markered over them w/ sharpies until something worked. I've been real happy w/it so far. I washed it today after a night ride home last night, and all the bugs just fell off the clear coat. I wiped it off with a cotton T-Shirt and it was every bit as shiny a the day it came outta the paint booth.

 

Its actually Nason base and clear that I used.Clear laid out smooth and with little trash.Still haven't buffed it yet

 

both bikes are looking good...How did you go about doing your fender eliminator mattro? looks somewhat simular to the method i used which was just cutting down the rear fender and reducing it to being nothing more then a plate mount.

 

I just put tape an inch down from the tail light,unhooked the tag light,cut it and mounted the license plate fight on th inner fender,I've road 80 plus and the tags still tight as it was when I installed it.love the way the rear looks now.

 

this is what i did to my vf700f. Thast duplicolor gm victory red its really bright during the day and a nice dark color at night.

 

he he, I like the dead battery in this last picture.; all these bikes ;look awesome.
The marbled one is just sic looking. I thought I saw the plastic wrap thing happen on one of those discovery channel hotrod shows. Its a really cool effect with paint.

Hopefully I can just get mine back into stock color condition./.... I have a set of leathers that matches the re white and blue theme....... gonna have to remove the "other motor cycle name though..........