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Old Dec 3, 2012 | 11:18 PM
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I have an 07 streetbob. Cutting front and rear fenders along with doing a lot of black powder coating. Want to do some old school 50's style flames on just the tank. Thinking of doing yellow to orange to red transition, but not full length of tank. Spent way too many hours on the web looking at flames, that now I can,t make up my mind and style. Any opinions out there? Even some pics would be cool.
 
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Old Dec 4, 2012 | 10:02 AM
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have you thought of doing scallops over flames? if you are going to go old school that is far less done and done well, if you need any help on the powder let me know we just shipped 6 100lb boxes of powdered parts to Cali today!
 
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I agree with Joe, go with scallops. Something like this could look really cool. https://i.imgur.com/N5KPH.jpg
 
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Don't know if you have seen this or not, but this is just unreal! Some of the best I've seen. Real 3D.
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/gener...paint-job.html
 
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Old Dec 4, 2012 | 01:57 PM
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Don't know if you have seen this or not, but this is just unreal! Some of the best I've seen. Real 3D.
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/gener...paint-job.html
Damn that is way too sick. That paint skill is unreal!
 
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Old Dec 4, 2012 | 02:01 PM
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Damn that is way too sick. That paint skill is unreal!
That's what I thought. That's off the hook!
 
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Can;t go wrong with a good set of flames. Just my opinion, but those shadows are too dark on the orange bike. I do airbrushing on the side, here's the hood of my truck.

 
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do 50's-60's scallops, it will never look dated.or go out of style
 
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For a simple but effective job, you can't beat the flames on this Exile bike

 
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California Kid style, IMHO.
 
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