New Paint finally done
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That's pretty much what I did. There are several tutorials on youtube. It's really not that difficult if you have some Idea of how to do the shading and highlites. I bought a few stencils to use as guides then did all the shading. If you look at my other thread on the preview pics, there are some shots of what it looked like after you spray the stencil. Most of the medium sized skulls are actually the same skull stencil turned all different ways and flipped over. After doing so many you they start to be sort of second nature. I did the tank last and the forward facing skulls are mostly freehaded since I didn't one that looked like that. Just used some curved stencils to get the hard edges. If you are interested in trying it PM me and I can point to a good place to get supplies.
i might fool around with it sometime , but i'll practice a lot first
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Thanks, unfortunately there are things I just can't get to show up in the pics. Little details like smoke coming out of the eyes on the rear skull and all the little details that you only see when the light chages across it. I was really worried about spraying the clear coat, but I managed to only get a couple of minor runs, and all of the little imperfections buffed right out. The black looks so much better than I was expecting after I buffed it out it looks like you could sitck you hand through it. All in all I am very happy how it came out. I did this all in my garage with a $29 detail gun off ebay, a $25 airbrush off ebay, and a $200 harbor freight compressor.
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Ok so I got the bike all back together the other day, and had a couple of issues to work out. First was my right rear turn signal wasn't working. Turned out the run brake turn module was bad. Dealer replaced it no problem. The other problem was that I put 5 gallons of gas in it and the gas guage still read close to empty. Sometimes its a little slow so I didn't think much of it. Well today it sort of cut out on me a couple of times so I ride back home to check it out. Tank has hardly any gas in it. I should have known something was up when I was able to put 5 gallons in the other day, since it should have been overflowing. Turns out that I paid for 5 gallons and only got maybe 1 gallon. Go figure... Filled it up at another station and the guage works fine.
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Ok so I got the bike all back together the other day, and had a couple of issues to work out. First was my right rear turn signal wasn't working. Turned out the run brake turn module was bad. Dealer replaced it no problem. The other problem was that I put 5 gallons of gas in it and the gas guage still read close to empty. Sometimes its a little slow so I didn't think much of it. Well today it sort of cut out on me a couple of times so I ride back home to check it out. Tank has hardly any gas in it. I should have known something was up when I was able to put 5 gallons in the other day, since it should have been overflowing. Turns out that I paid for 5 gallons and only got maybe 1 gallon. Go figure... Filled it up at another station and the guage works fine.
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