It's going sooo sloooww! !!
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Road Master
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From: N.W. Illinois Stephenson County
Well this green is pretty frigin bright. Using the Synery green from the new Camaro. Looks like metalic anti-freeze!
My friend owns a body shop. He's walking me through it step by step. He will do the spraying. I'm just doing all the grunt work. Only costing me materials. Getting excited about it. Will be laying down black next week. Smoothed the front fender today. Got rid of the rivets. Small detail but makes a big difference. Going to paint the fairing mirrors too.
My friend owns a body shop. He's walking me through it step by step. He will do the spraying. I'm just doing all the grunt work. Only costing me materials. Getting excited about it. Will be laying down black next week. Smoothed the front fender today. Got rid of the rivets. Small detail but makes a big difference. Going to paint the fairing mirrors too.
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I'll be doing green some day. Definitely my favorite color. Hard to get right but I do like the one you are using. I saw that color used on a bike featured in Baggers once.
Got a lot of body parts to collect b4 I can do paint. Definitely don't want to paint twice. Sure wish I could do it now. Waiting anxiously to see your finished bike.
Got a lot of body parts to collect b4 I can do paint. Definitely don't want to paint twice. Sure wish I could do it now. Waiting anxiously to see your finished bike.
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Semper Fi!
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I'm in the process of doing the sanding, scuffing and buffing my N-Line trailer to match my cop bkie. My friend is laying down the color for me. I always like to read the posts "WHY DOES IT COST SO MUCH TO PAINT MY BIKE?" All they need to do is spend a day at a paint shop and see the work and time that goes into it, let alone the $117.00 a qt. paint $95.00 activator etc............Really enjoying learning the basics and helping work on his '34 3-window when I can.
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The cost is crazy, the pic doesn't do the color or metallic justice on the bike but that PPG 2 coat paint cost $450 for a freakin pint of each. The time involved in sanding and laying out the stripes was about 20 hours.
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From: N.W. Illinois Stephenson County
I've got 30 hours in the build already.
Raw plastic parts are primed and mostly wet sanded. (Tour pack, bag bottoms) Tank, fairing, inner, lids, and mid frame deflectors are all scuffed. CVO rear fender came ready to paint.
Installed my Yaffe chrome retro slider covers and chrome sliders. Installed H-D heavy breather. Sent my gauges to Marty. He turned them out pretty frigin quick. Can't wait to see them on!!
Should be laying down some black color next week
Raw plastic parts are primed and mostly wet sanded. (Tour pack, bag bottoms) Tank, fairing, inner, lids, and mid frame deflectors are all scuffed. CVO rear fender came ready to paint.
Installed my Yaffe chrome retro slider covers and chrome sliders. Installed H-D heavy breather. Sent my gauges to Marty. He turned them out pretty frigin quick. Can't wait to see them on!!
Should be laying down some black color next week
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