Here in a few months I will be gearing up to strip down my bike and do some powdercoating/painting. I am way out in the ballpark when it comes to paint, I don't know much of what goes into it besides your basics sand,primer,sand,paint,sand,finish. So I will be taking this to a shop and having it done, just need some knowledge to back up my **** so they don't try and rape me.

I have a few ideas though of what I want just have to figure out what type of paint I want to go with now. I would like a black with some red in it and an airbrushed retro harley logo on the tank. Have thought of incorporating a punisher skull into the "A" of the Harley logo but not sure how that would look.

As for paint I want to stick with matte type finishes, Harley denim black and red hot denim where the colors originally decided but now that I see the denim colors can't be touched up in the future I may decide against it. I don't mind the way the denim "fades" as harley states but if it ever gets scratched I would like to be able to touch them up. So Vivid black is another I looked at but I have not seen a "matching red" to go with the vivid black yet. Last but not least I actually considered just powdercoating the pieces but am not sure if they can do designs when it comes to PCing.

Another thing I have thought about is pinstripping but I don't think I want it to be laid over top a paint job and look out of place. I want something that will essentially be "sealed" all together.

So any help from you guys would be awesome, these are the colors/style schemes I have considered so far.

Black Denim:


Red Hot Denim:


Retro Logo:


Pinstripping:


Paint theme:


The paint theme is nice but I would want it changed to incorporate less red on the tank and rear fender. Pinstripping is cool but like I said not sure I just want it laid over top a paint job.

Thanks for any help from the guys who know paint!

 

I'm a big fan of red/black. I swapped out my tins to this combo from '07. I believe '06 had vivid black and red.

 

we have done alot of red and black color combos for customers... comes out pretty sick, red and black are 1% colors, just something to think about depending on where you ride

 

Damn that is sick! Whats up with the hand gaurds though, never seen those on a cruiser. I gotta question for ya, can powder coaters do designs like the one I have above? If I can get the paint job powdercoated rather than painted I may go that route.

1%? I don't think that applies to where I am at.

What is the matching matte red for vivid black? I was also curious, is the denim colors the only ones that can't be "touched up"

 

we have done flat red as well even some custom flat red colors we did a ton on wing i built a few years ago.. yes we can 2 tone and do other custom desings but there comes a point where paint is just flat out easier to do and that is less $$$ alot of guys we do 2 tone stuff for will have us powder the base and then will lay paint over the top for the red for example or we will 2 tone it and then they will have pin stripe done. doing scalops would be pretty $$$ in powder but we could def do it!









few more black and red bikes we have done

 

Well now I just need to find someone in San Antonio that has experience with doing flat paints and mixing flattener in paints. The first guy I spoke to seemed rather unprofessional, telling me "well we are not setup for doing controlled paint so if a bug lands in it then well that's what you get." At the $2000-$2500 quote he gave me - no thank you. This was a Custom Hot Rod shop at that!

Anyone know any reputable shops in the San Antonio area?

 

no way...I haev shot hotrod flats paint before it is great stuff super easy to use. i am sure any painter will be able to ue it. maybe find a local auto body shop and see if anyone wants a side job

 

Old school designs are back in.

 

Good idea, I'll have to check around!

I really like this, do you have any better pictures showing more or less the full design?