My new paintwork

Picked up my plastics and tank this afternoon. Well pleased with it A lovely metallic grey/gunmetal colour. Thing is I never thought about decals or pinstriping for it . Can anybody photoshop some ideas for me? Here's a few pix before I fit em to the bike.

looks good mate

Thanks Mate, will bolt it together on Thursday after fitting John's carbs.

Sorry mate, can't help with any designs but the finish looks great.

what are the lights like? i had a set when i had my cb400 but they were dim and not good quality. your one looks the pants tho

The fairing takes a Gilera Runner light unit mate 50/55W Halogens. Adequate , but I also have two 55watt Projectors to fit somewhere. Think I'll leave decals for a while, but the paint looks relly nice in the sunlight. Will get it bolted up and post pix at weekend.

That looks sweet mate!

Are you doing the seat the same too?

How much did the paint job set you back?

When I get some more dosh I plan to have a chat with Fringe about a seat design. The paint was done by a mate that works at a car repair place in Eastbourne. they have 4 heated booths and it cost £150 for fairing , tank, tail plastics and rear seat cover. Thought that was really good value? Would appreciate your thoughts Griz when I get it bolted together? does it need any more?

megawatt wrote:When I get some more dosh I plan to have a chat with Fringe about a seat design. The paint was done by a mate that works at a car repair place in Eastbourne. they have 4 heated booths and it cost £150 for fairing , tank, tail plastics and rear seat cover. Thought that was really good value? Would appreciate your thoughts Griz when I get it bolted together? does it need any more?

Well it sure looks like they did a top quality job to me & £150 is a great price me thinks!

Bolt it all on & post up the pics, as for needing anymore, I think it all comes down to personal taste.

Since doing the punisher I keep thinking of different themed bikes (a bit like american chopper! ) How about thinking of a name or theme for the bike? I went to my local vinyl print shop & asked if they could print me some designs I found online & they did a great job of it, I just sat on google images trying to find imagies relating to the punisher theme & saved them to my pictures on my computer & then emailed them to the printers & got them to resize them to my spec & choose the colour I most liked, they can also reproduce the image exactly as I found it online but the quality isn't as good as when they print using there own font etc.

Looking forward to seeing some pics when you've bolted it all back together, should look a real cracker!

Thats an excellent job and price Megawilly. Glad to see you're making headway on the project so get a finger out and hope to see you get your leg over soon.

Might get it bolted back together, not sure when I'll be able to ride it though????

hmmm but where is the rest of it? like the mudgaurd seat plastics and rear hugger? did they not get done?

Cool paint matey, love that front lamp fairing, just dont mount it too high will ya fella.

Decals............... less is more!!!

That's great, coming from you mate. Yeah, gonna leave it as just paint for a while.
Yes John, seat plastics, rear seat cover, tank and fairing got painted. Front muddy is stayin CF and rear hugger will be stainless home made job, when I can get in the garage!

lol just we didnt see pics)))

What bars you gonna go with Alan?

I may stick with my wide, high Gold Renthals mate. Need em high and got angled risers. It all helps my bad back and knees. Could do with being wider as I have some nice grey mirrors to fit instead of my bar end ones!

Anywhere near you, you could get em powder coated to complement that paint buddy. really one off em.

good idea, i need 25mm wider bars anyway, i may sell the kids.????

Lookin good mate, my mates done his gixer frame and swinger in a similiar colour and it looks cool

have you managed to get any of it fitted yet mate cant wait to see how it all looks on the bike

Just finished nights mate , but my knee is givin me serious pain at the mo. Dosed up on PKs and need crutches to walk! Gonna finish fitting Johns carbs n new cables tomorrow and then fit tank etc. Piccies as soon as. I'm off till Tuesday , so hope to get some work done, when my knee lets me. Roll on March 26th. See ya soon???

Nice paint job there mate ;o)
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WOW yeah, will check mine tomorrow and see how much room I need. Just need an extra 50mmto allow the mirror brackets on. Thanks mate.

Love the colour, looks like a great job!

How about a white lightning streak somewhere?

Yeah, need a photoshop expert to help?

Though I'd mock up the bike with the newly painted bodywork. Would appreciate good and bad comments. I will be covering the blue hoses, turquoise shock spring and possibly replace the bars.




Hoping to get some outdoor pix tomorrow and hopefully some sunshine to show off the paint.

lookin good mate

Sweet!!!

Need to see it in the daylight I expect to get the real benifit of the paint job but on first impressions it looks very good to me!