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Hello to all who don't know me. These are the most recent pics of my cbr 600. I will descrbe them to you.


well this is the bike it looks pretty awesome huh?very aerodynamic
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This is the newly modified front fairing. The shadows being cast are the areas I have sculpted outa bondo. Its almost ready for paint.


And these are the parts. All have been buffed and are ready ot go on the bike.

And this is the tank. If I told you we did this with spray cans would you believe me? IF not you should. Because we did.

THis photo is kinda dark. its hard to capture the beauty in the garage. we painted the front of the frame Gunmetal Grey today. The wheels still need some work. But are on the way to completion. IF you look you can see the can is missing. I plan to order a slip on sometime after i get it on the road. I'm thinking this is a good start to somthing i"m going to enjoy very much. [/img]

That's totally awesome, man!

Great job! You should write up a how-to and explain how you get such a nice look from spray paint. I'd love to give that a try myself!

Keep up the good work!

In case you were wondering how this is possible. We under go STRICT CRITICISM by the one and only Tom-Tom Arnold. And from this view, he's about to give his approval.

yeah that is sweet...definatly would like to know how you did that with a can.

Vulcanman500 is my son. I can tell you, since he's at work, that the results you see have alot to do with the preparation of the surface. Careful application is important, and the wetsanding between coats keeps it smooth. After the clearcoat, the wetsanding and polishing process makes the final shine you are seeing. It's hard to believe, but the pictures don't really capture the actual brilliance of the paint in the sun, or inside. Bottom line, hard work in smoothing the surface before the paint goes on...more hard work after the paint is on. The painting is the quick, easy part. The design of the color scheme is another critical ingredient. Chris excels at that and at the smooth application of the color coats, to get the visual impact.

As I live in an animal-intensive enviroment as well, I can see how surface prep and color sanding can give results somewhat close to yours(but my stuff never looked that good )... but how do you keep the dust and pet hair off the wet paint until it's dry? I can't seem to manage that trick, no matter what I try. I don't really want to construct a home made paintbooth for the limited amount of painting I do.... 'sides my results don't warrent the hassle

we just closed off the garage. we opened the back door at night to lure the bugs out to the patio. some dust did fall in, but it sanded out really easily. Here are todays fotos with all parts painted. look closely at the new flavored wheels!!!!









Still debating about the mufflerand the mirrors are waiting for bolts. I'll get those sometime today.

BuzZz wrote:As I live in an animal-intensive enviroment as well, I can see how surface prep and color sanding can give results somewhat close to yours(but my stuff never looked that good )... but how do you keep the dust and pet hair off the wet paint until it's dry? I can't seem to manage that trick, no matter what I try. I don't really want to construct a home made paintbooth for the limited amount of painting I do.... 'sides my results don't warrent the hassle

Lets start with not rubbing the cat against the bike....

Sevulturus wrote:

BuzZz wrote:As I live in an animal-intensive enviroment as well, I can see how surface prep and color sanding can give results somewhat close to yours(but my stuff never looked that good )... but how do you keep the dust and pet hair off the wet paint until it's dry? I can't seem to manage that trick, no matter what I try. I don't really want to construct a home made paintbooth for the limited amount of painting I do.... 'sides my results don't warrent the hassle

Lets start with not rubbing the cat against the bike....

I made a booth to shoot the suburban 11 years ago, and it was worth the trouble, especially since the paint was 80 dollars a gallon. I'm sure it's more now, and using sray equipment really fogs the place up compared to the cans. Kindof depends on how much stuff you're shooting, and how big is your garage. Our biggest enemy was bugs, since much of the painting was at night. We had to keep luring them away with outside lighting and an open door.