New paintjob suggestions for NC30

[motorbyclist]

right, here's the mask i intend to use, note the tank decal will be rotated slightly to match the rest of the bike

now i've got all the mask in a file at 1:1 scale, i've just got to get the vinyl cut

[slydesigns]

Why aren't you using a stretched version of the actual Honda wing, front part included, like the late model Fireblades do? You've only got the swept back part and not the leading edge of the wing.

[motorbyclist]

Why aren't you using a stretched version of the actual Honda wing, front part included, like the late model Fireblades do? You've only got the swept back part and not the leading edge of the wing.

because i don't want it to look like every other fireblade and "custom" painted honda

nah was going more for the rvt sp look (the RC51)

having just the swept back part was deliberate, after a bit of playing on photoshop


just wait till you see the colour scheme (even i'm curious as to how it'll come out)

[motorbyclist]

The stuff I'm using is the same stuff I use to make my airbrush masks when I'm doing a helmet. Its called ORAMASK from ORACAL. Its about $12.50/m and comes on a 1220mm x 45m roll, so as you can see... its damn cheap. Its semi transparent so you can vaguely see whats under the mask... useful for ding layered masks like logos or 3d effects and masking where you want to lift off a section, spray, them replace the mask before applying another colour.

does it leave any residue that has to be cleaned before the clearcoat?

EDSIT: just googled the stuff and answered my own question

[motorbyclist]

ok, modified the drawing a bit and got it all vectorised and took it to the shop where it's all ready to go, just needs vinyl. shop was closing early today, so will be cut monday when i show up with 2 metres of 610mm wide vinyl



if anyone wants the vector file for the bike wings just email me

[slydesigns]

Your right... I mucked around on Photoshop and Illustrator last night and just couldn't get the whole wing to fit AND look right in the VFR. I forgot how upright they look. Your version is pretty much all I could get to fit and look the part as well. The TYGA fairings on mine are markedly more swept allowing for the full wing as well as the bellypan being full carbon and not painted meaning the wing couldn't go as low as yours. The NC30 should look pretty trick, looking forward to the final pics.

[motorbyclist]

DISASTER

so today i got the vinyl cut and weeded/apped it, then went to find uncle had already finished painting the wheels and was about to start the first base coat on the fairings. while he sprayed that i sanded the tank down and all was looking good for a "done by the weekend to ride down to paeroa" finish

but as soon as that first base coat started to dry, it also boiled up and went all crazy on us. it even munted the otherwise spotless 2 pot primer, which on the mudguard was an expoy primer so wtf

long story short, i'm currently sanding down all the fairings, again, thanks to whatever paint the last guy to paint it used reacting with the new base coat through the primer. sanded right through the old paint to find some crazy paint under that again too

waste of paint and waste of primer and waste of time!

[Zuki Bandit]

Bit of photoshopping, what do ya reckon? A bit loud but the colours are complimentry.

[deanohit]

waste of paint and waste of primer and waste of time!

Bummer man, love the look of the graphics you've chosen though!

Bit of photoshopping, what do ya reckon? A bit loud but the colours are complimentry.

Dude, what are you on?!
Maybe a more full yellow, like the color of the smilies would match a purple that dark better.

[motorbyclist]

Bit of photoshopping, what do ya reckon? A bit loud but the colours are complimentry.

lol yeah one of my mates already offered a similar suggestion

[motorbyclist]

this bike is going to take a while to paint. damn cracks keep coming back through the paint....

just went from maybe done by the weekend, to "lucky to be done by the time uni starts, at which point i wont have time to do it anymore and need to have the bike on the road again"

fuck

really don't want a half finished bike.....

sealer would help, but from what i hear the paint will crazy in 6 months time if i don't do it properly the first time


maybe if i can just get the tank back on i can ride it naked for a while....

[Squiggles]

Using a different paint type to the original? like enamel instead of laquer? Heard that'll f it up if you dont get the old stuff completely 100% off

[motorbyclist]

Using a different paint type to the original? like enamel instead of laquer? Heard that'll f it up if you dont get the old stuff completely 100% off

exactly what is happening now, but i believe the old stuff was enamel, new stuff laquer (but then i'm no paint expert, just sand/mask the thing and make pretty pictures)

i don't really want to strip the entire effing bike back to bare fibreglass/plastic/metal, especially considering the primer and prep work so far invested in the current finish

uncle currently doing his thing to fix it, but doing it inbetween paying customers...

basically at the family dinner thing tonight i'll there'll be some discussion about simply putting it in as an official job and paying him to finish the damn thing before next weekend

[motorbyclist]

basically at the family dinner thing tonight i'll there'll be some discussion about simply putting it in as an official job and paying him to finish the damn thing before next weekend

ok, now i'm now a paying customer; i'll be lucky to see it done by uni start but atleast it's a possibility

[motorbyclist]

masking mostly done


still deciding exactly what's happening on the front there, but i like what i've got so far (likely to put "wing" on both lights, but might get lazy)