New paint job idea

[NZ CBR]

This a pic Ive played around with on Photoshop. Its my lastest idea for my new paint job for my CBR.

High gloss black on orange, seperated by white barbed wire, with random lightly airbrushed white lines.

Im a while off spraying it yet, still removing stickers!

What do you think?

[javawocky]

IMO the squiggles are a bit too busy over the entire bike. Perhaps put them just on the orange section?

[CookMySock]

Yeah less squiggles, and what about a lightning strike viciously severing the whole thing, with some torn steel inside the strike zone?

Look on youtube for demos on how to do all this sort of stuff.

Steve

[Burtha]

At first I agreed about the squiggles but then they started to grow on me.
I'd be inclined to fatten the width of the barbed wire divider but other than that - NICE!

EDIT: or use lightening or a fire pattern as the divider?

[vifferman]

Have you tried it with the colours reversed (orange at top, black at the bottom)? It often looks more betterer to have the darkest colour of two-tone paint schemes at the bottom.

[tigertim20]

Looks good, but you Should try having the CBR and the HONDA painted in "ghost" underneath the orange so it only shows up in certain lights. Im not sure how its done, but a friend of mine did it to his ninja a few years back, it looked awesome, red bike, and as it comes past you you could sometimes see "kawasaki" written into the red, sometimes not. That would look cool.
I dont really like the squiggles myself, but looks good.
I need to get my hands on a photoshop programme, how does one do that?

[tigertim20]

By the way, was talking to you about tail light mods, heres a pic of wht I ended up doing, cut the plastic plate holder down, got a newer small plate for it, and mounted some indicators in the rear of the tail section just below the tail light. makes the ass end look heaps cleaner

[tigertim20]

Have you thought of powder coating the wheels too?

[Murray]

looks like a JAFFA bike!!

[CookMySock]

I need to get my hands on a photoshop programme, how does one do that?

You either steal/pirate one, or use a free one. Google "gimp for windows" and that will get you some free software, but then you have miles to go before you can use it. Start with some basic tutorials.

Steve

[NZ CBR]

Have you tried it with the colours reversed (orange at top, black at the bottom)? It often looks more betterer to have the darkest colour of two-tone paint schemes at the bottom.

yeah I had it your way 1st I like this way.

As for the squggles, they took some time to grow on me too. without them the colours seen too plan and they blend with the white wheels. maybe gone to hard out in pic.

I'll try the lightning instead of squiggles

Barbed wire does want to be thicker your rite.

What is power coating the wheels??

Cheers for the feedback, keep it coming!

[vifferman]

yeah I had it your way 1st I like this way.

What is power coating the wheels??

I realised after I posted that, that because the seat was black, reversing the colours would mean having the rear cowl black instead or orange, so you wouldn't get the contrast. But (however!) if you kept it the same as your mockup, but made the lowest part of the fairing black so it's parallel with the upper black bit, that would look even more betterer (IMHO).

Powder coating is a method of painting, where the paint is applied electrostatically as a powder, then baked on. It supposedly forms a harder coat that's more resistant to chipping, but some alloy wheels are too soft to withstand the higher temperature form of powdercoating, so it's doubtful whether the lower temp method is any better than ordinary spraypaint.

[NZ CBR]

I realised after I posted that, that because the seat was black, reversing the colours would mean having the rear cowl black instead or orange, so you wouldn't get the contrast.

Powder coating is a method of painting, where the paint is applied electrostatically as a powder, then baked on. It supposedly forms a harder coat that's more resistant to chipping, but some alloy wheels are too soft to withstand the higher temperature form of powdercoating, so it's doubtful whether the lower temp method is any better than ordinary spraypaint.

Cheers mate

[tigertim20]

Powder coating is an alternative to paint, and can be done to any metal, and only SOME plastics (though you will need to find someone with the correct equipment to do plastic)
Its harder and more durable than paint, and you can get it in textures as well (theres a really awesome one called blackwater silk, very nice with an awesome texture)
If you were gonna do your wheels, powdercoat them, dont paint them, the finish will last much much longer that way. You can also get a clear powder coat over the top.

[tigertim20]

whoops, didnt notice viffermans reply! haha. He is mostly right, It does work sweet as on wheels. I can give you a contact for a guy in Blenheim that does it, I used to work for him, I did a bit of powdercoating and a bit of engineering. The wheels will work sweet as, the guy builds his own custom choppers. not just all kitset shit like most people, he builds his own frames and everything as well, has made some awesome bikes.
By the way, his price for powder coating was around $25 a square metre, I think for both sides, so not too expensive at all.