Help Moanthebairns Paint his bike

[moanthebairns]

[moanthebairns]

Heres what I have to work with, the guy must have painted them with the same brush he used to creosote his fence with.

How can I remove this foam that he seems to have cut with a fking spork.

[Hooli]

Hair dryer? Carb cleaner often cleans glue off.

[moanthebairns]

steve954 said:

moanthebairns said:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PLASTIDIP-PLASTI-DIP-PLA...

so has anyone used this.

The fairings are used and a fking horrible green colour.

I wanted to sticker it up with cool ramones and duff beer stickers.

TO give it that authentic st look.

yes I have and it is awesome stuff, as said spray on and get a nice coat then if you don't like it you can just peel it off like vinyl! It all comes with a matt finish though so if you want it shiny you will need a glossifier.
Saying that if you spray normal paint with rattle cans you won't get a very good gloss anyway due to the larger area.

how many cans would it take to do a bike?

how many coats

did you do it using a rattle can?

[moanthebairns]

Hooli said:

Hair dryer? Carb cleaner often cleans glue off.

So just a solvent, my fear is it will take a fking week to get off

[Hooli]

I'm guessing, never done it. I wouldn't use anything too strong though, not without testing it doesn't dissolve the plastics first.

[steve954]

moanthebairns said:

steve954 said:

moanthebairns said:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PLASTIDIP-PLASTI-DIP-PLA...

so has anyone used this.

The fairings are used and a fking horrible green colour.

I wanted to sticker it up with cool ramones and duff beer stickers.

TO give it that authentic st look.

yes I have and it is awesome stuff, as said spray on and get a nice coat then if you don't like it you can just peel it off like vinyl! It all comes with a matt finish though so if you want it shiny you will need a glossifier.
Saying that if you spray normal paint with rattle cans you won't get a very good gloss anyway due to the larger area.

how many cans would it take to do a bike?

how many coats

did you do it using a rattle can?

I would probably say 4 cans would be enought to do all the bike really if you apply it right, good thing is you could do the tank aswell.

[moanthebairns]

If Im getting it pink ill go for something like this.

[moanthebairns]

steve954 said:

moanthebairns said:

steve954 said:

moanthebairns said:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PLASTIDIP-PLASTI-DIP-PLA...

so has anyone used this.

The fairings are used and a fking horrible green colour.

I wanted to sticker it up with cool ramones and duff beer stickers.

TO give it that authentic st look.

yes I have and it is awesome stuff, as said spray on and get a nice coat then if you don't like it you can just peel it off like vinyl! It all comes with a matt finish though so if you want it shiny you will need a glossifier.
Saying that if you spray normal paint with rattle cans you won't get a very good gloss anyway due to the larger area.

how many cans would it take to do a bike?

how many coats

did you do it using a rattle can?

I would probably say 4 cans would be enought to do all the bike really if you apply it right, good thing is you could do the tank aswell.

I might see how much the painter I know would do for a proper job

[steve954]

moanthebairns said:

steve954 said:

moanthebairns said:

steve954 said:

moanthebairns said:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PLASTIDIP-PLASTI-DIP-PLA...

so has anyone used this.

The fairings are used and a fking horrible green colour.

I wanted to sticker it up with cool ramones and duff beer stickers.

TO give it that authentic st look.

yes I have and it is awesome stuff, as said spray on and get a nice coat then if you don't like it you can just peel it off like vinyl! It all comes with a matt finish though so if you want it shiny you will need a glossifier.
Saying that if you spray normal paint with rattle cans you won't get a very good gloss anyway due to the larger area.

how many cans would it take to do a bike?

how many coats

did you do it using a rattle can?

I would probably say 4 cans would be enought to do all the bike really if you apply it right, good thing is you could do the tank aswell.

I might see how much the painter I know would do for a proper job

this is what I would do, my mate does paint and he recently done someone's track bike it took him next to no time to whip a coat of pearl white over it.

[moanthebairns]

fitted them today, I need to alter some parts but generally not too much.

just need to paint it

[theshrew]

If you do it yourself just do the prep well, put a lot of paint on at least that way you can wet sand it if it looks a bit poop and you will be able to get it looking something like. A lot less work to get someone to spray it for you.

The more complicated the design will bump up the price of spraying so maybe the cheaper option if your going the more complicated route would be wrapping I imagine its a open book as to what you can get done.

[sc0tt]

2 months and you've only just put it on. Lazy fk.

[moanthebairns]

sc0tt said:

2 months and you've only just put it on. Lazy fk.

Been working riding other ones

[neelyp]

Get the matt black section painted the same colour as the tank and paint the green bits/tail section in the blue colour you were talking about.
Means you don't have to spray the tank.

[Prof Prolapse]

neelyp said:

Get the matt black section painted the same colour as the tank and paint the green bits/tail section in the blue colour you were talking about.
Means you don't have to spray the tank.

That seems sensible to me, you can do the tank with a rattle can if you're going for matt and use some P38 to get rid of that dent.

I also think you should use pink and not blue though.

[moanthebairns]

Ive went for blue and silver.

£20 total, 12 tins and sandpaper.

this is going to look awesome.

[George29]

Don't underestimate how long it takes to sand all the fairings. I stupidly thought I'd do mine as I like doing as much as possible myself on the bike. Took me over a week to do 2 sets and made me wish I'd just paid the painters a little bit more to do it.

Should look good though. Are you doing the wheels in silver to match?

[moanthebairns]

George29 said:

Don't underestimate how long it takes to sand all the fairings. I stupidly thought I'd do mine as I like doing as much as possible myself on the bike. Took me over a week to do 2 sets and made me wish I'd just paid the painters a little bit more to do it.

Should look good though. Are you doing the wheels in silver to match?

Am I fk. Aslong as it isn't green anymore then that's all that I care about.

If it looks ok from 20 meters at 100mph that will do for me

[neelyp]

You should have kept the middle section the same colour as the tank and just got protectors to cover the dent in the tank.
Would have saved a lot of hassle.
I presume you are putting clear coat over the top of it?