BSA tank finished

also i started on a BSA bantam tank, thers a few pics below of it with basecoat on and ready for top, after masking off the BSA unique design i masked up the silver that would stay silver and began spraying a beautiful electric blue over it, and this is what it looked like after a good polish.

 PRIMERED

 SILVER BASECOAT

 MASKED

BOOM! JUST HOW IT'D HAVE LOOKED BACK IN 1968 ;)

Honda Flame job

This will be my first total bike spray job. Originally the gentleman gave me a few bike pieces e.g. mudguard, tail piece, fearing, side panels and he wanted them painting gloss black. So heres a picture of the fearing i did for him

This is the bike

this is just the front fearing that houses the headlight, pretty basic job of flattening down and gloss blacking.


However after havin a bit of a chat with the guy, i originally painted a motorbike tank that was silver with black flames that sits down in their workshop and we started to think up an idea of actully painting the whole bike black with silver flames. So i took away the fearing again and resprayed it. Considering i did this in 2 hours in a 5x5 shed with aerosol cans, a hairdryer and hopes and dreams, it lookd pretty fuckin mean!

So hopefully the tank, side panels will follow this design, im really excited about douing this project! not only will it look fuckin awesome but its a good chance to improve my skills which im greatful for. Hopefully should have the go ahead to collect the tank pretty soon then i cam work my magic

Bumper progress

Finally got all the rubbing down, fillerin etc smooth and started to apply the primer. Because it was plastic i had to use a plastic primer to enable the paint to adhere to the surface (thanks for that mark :P ) before the primer could be applied. I dont have any pics of the bumper in the white primer, the picture shows it flattened and smooth ready for topcoat.

Now it was time to add the gorgeous blue metallic topcoat

All of these pictures pretty much show the standard to how the bumper is sprayed to, however i flattened it all back again as i needed more paint but this is just a glimpse of the finished product, bearing in mind laquer and a good tcut and polish will really bring the surface to life

Car Bumper Respray

Recently i got given a car bumper that was the wrong colour and simply needs a rub down, filler ina  few places and respraying the new colour. Im dead impressed however because i actually got this job because the gentleman saw my blog and we had a chat down in my local club. Awesome! So at the minute its sat in my shed quite comfortably pushing my BSA tanks to the back :P at the minute there on hold as i dont have much room to do these at the minute as the photo shows :)

As you can see ive already spent a few hours 'knocking back' the paintwork and correcting it ina  few places. The only concern i have with this is how to paint it and store it so none of the paintwork is actually taking the weight of the bumper and thus will just ruin the coats each time i apply them, however i have sorted a solution but it is weather dependant and at the minute the weather isnt looking too good which isnt making me happy really, however any sunshine, this will be taking priority! So today I woke up, quite excited to be spending a full day outside on the project, so got it all setup and just started flattening it all down.

Not looking too bad :) Now came the time to apply some filler into a few areas that were either scratched or had had filler in peviously but was chipping away in chunks and thus a few coats of primer would not be able to hide. There are a few minor scratches and stone chips, however a lot of them will be filled in with the primer and when flattened again will not be able to seen. 

I waited for the filler to dry and rubbed it down until it flowed with the rest of the shapes and contours around it, however a few areas were proving tricky to get flat so at the minute the bumper is sat in my shed with a few spots of filler waiting to be flattened down. Hopefully, he says lol, maybe another day on this of flattening etc it should be ready for a coat of primer, but like i said, its all weather dependant, this is when i wish i didnt get rid of my last shed which was 2ft wider and wasnt chamfered in one corner, so i could spray the bumper with ease, however ill have to make do. So hopefully my next post you will see a few pictures of the bumper painted white and perfectly smooth, ready for its new topcoat, however that could be a week or so away yet as like i said before its just forecast to rain! damn the lake district. 

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Cracking On With The BSA Tanks

I usually dont go to school on Wednesdays, however i woke up this morning and just had a real big craving to crack on with my BSA tanks so i thought fuck it haha basically now, one of the tanks has been given a basecoat of silver. and the other one has been primered and filled however still needs a bit more rubbing down, fillering and primering before i can put a silver basecoat on that one. However for now, the silver Basecoated tank is taking the limelight :P Im also very happy as i was talking to one of my mates who ive spoken about before, does a lot of mechanical work on all kinds of bikes in his workshop, and hes currently building a drag bike, and hes offered to let me spray up his fairings for him. BANG TIDY. So got a few more projects lined up which im pleased about, help build up my archive, hopefully aswell my mum will let me spray up her camper properly this time, as im offfering to charge her half of what she gets quoted in a spray garage :P. Anyway.....a few pics of the silver BSA tank are below.

So it got its first lick of silver paint, i made sure to put plenty of coats on as im gonna be flattening this down until its absolutely perfect. USing grade 800 to start with and then move on to a 1000-2000. As some of this silver will show through as a topcoat, so no room for error :P

Remember though spraying paint onto your project only really covers around 10-15% of your whole time working on your project if that! The key to a killer paint job is all in the preperation! so like i said, im not rushing this at all, if it takes me 2 days to flatten the paint down to perfection then thats how long ill spend on it. But like i said, i began flattening it down with grade 800 wet dry paper, this was just enought to knock the rough bits back and leave a smoothish surface for me to maticulously rub at with grade 1000 wet dry to make it perfectly smooth. I always leave 24 hours between spraying and rubbing down, the last thing you want is to rub down to early and snag the paint and leave a big rip or crease where the paint is still malleable. BAD TIMES!

Now the paintwork might look scratched and you might be thinking how the hell is that gonna look like a shiny, pefect topcoat. Well when it comes to turning this into a killer topcoat, you have 2 options. 

1-A good tcut and polish will give the paintwork a good shine once done however scratches  will still be visible. You can reduce the visibility of the scratches by using a very very fine wet dry grade to flatten the paint, however its not perfect.

2-The better way again is to flatten with a very low grade. Next once you have all your pinstripe, shapes, different colours all where you want them, you seal it all with a good layer of laquer. The laquer acts basically as a protective barrier and also restores dull surfaces once flattened to an unbelievable shine! BAsically all the laquer does is fill these tiny tiny scratches and basically when you flatten down the top layer, you cant see the scratches. This is the method i will be using, however im way way off that process.

As a piece of self criticism, illa dmit i payed hardly if any attention to parts of my previous tanks. e.g. the attacthements where the tank bolts to the frame, the underside of the tanks and even around the filler cap. I left them really as i was concentrating so much on just getting the bigger areas looking good. However this time this is what im improving on. The underside of my tank, the attatchments and the filler cap ive taken time with to make sure this is a fully completed paint job!

Beautiful ;) haha

So my next step with this now is to flatten it down until im happy with it, go out and purchase a burgundy red spray paint or a dark blue (not decided yet :P) mask it all up with the BSA patterns and apply the final gold pinstripe where the silver and the colour of my choice meet. Give it a heavy coat of laquer and flatten until you cant feel the bump of the pinstripe tape and your hand just flows over it unhindered. But for now, im pelased with my progress :)

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Inside the 'Workshop'

Today i was supposed to be at school :/ however was majorly distracted haha however i found today was a very constructive day. First of all here is a picture of my little workspace, i know its not massive or anything, but it does the job and its a cosy little area for me to knuckle down.

As you can see i have two posters :P one of my favourite rapper 50 cent (which i found! find of the century) and one of a few naked lasses with beckonin eyes ;) helps me concentrate of course :)

BOTH ARE VERY MOTIVATIONAL LOL 

So after staring at ma posters for a few hours :P I decided to crack on with ma bantam tanks. One of the tanks is pretty much primered and ready to go, need to aquire some silver spray paint which is about £2.85 i think from autoparts! bargain! considerin you get the same paint for about £5 and for 300ml at places like motorworld. (however motorworld has a lot more colour varieties! Which i will need for the topcoat) The other tank is half primered, still a lot of rubbing down/filler to be applied to it to make it aesthetically pleasing.

Primered and ready for a silver basecoat

Still a lot of work needed doing to this one to get it up to standard!

So ill focus on the first tank, i got this about 2 years ago when i was thinkin of building a bsa bantam. I got it off ebay for about £60 and it had an arit epaint job. However........i accidentally put a huge scratch in the paintwork haha not good :/ so abandoned the whole project as i basically cba anymore and i lacked the funds. But i only just got back into ma sprayin after i got ma shed so ive decided to restore it back to its old glory :) But now its ready for a silver basecoat, get some pinstriping done, masked up and hopefully paint it a lovely burgundy red/silver with a gold pinstripe (tape as i lack the experience to paint pinstripe :P) 

Thanks for looking (not that i have any followers yet haha) but when you do at least theres summet to read

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First Ever Respray

Ok so basically i first started to gain an interest in spray painting when i used to work for a taxi company. Next door to the offices was a workshop where a good mate of mine had a little motorcycle repair shop, mostly consisting of harley davidsons and choppers. I tried to gain an interest in the mechanical side of things, but found my skills lay elsewhere, and that was actually spray painting the motorcycle tanks. I did these when i was about 16, and dont get me wrong, i rubbed these down and repainted them over and over! All by hand, until I got to this standard. From the rubbing down, applying filler, primering, basecoating, top coating, flattening down and laqcuering i made nearly every mistake possible but in return those mistakes turned into knowledge for when i did it again and again, each time progressing a little further.

Eventually I reached the stage as you can see above. The black and yellow tank was the first one I ever painted. Then i found a smaller monkey bike tank that was in terrible condition and again with my experiences from the last paint job, i did it a lot more quickly and efficiently! 

Bearing in mind these were all done with rattle cans and a hair-dryer in the summer. At the minute however i have 2 BSA bantam tanks that are currently in the stages of being primered and fillered, I will keep posting updates on them as i am determined to paint them to a high standard! As i recently discovered a BSA bantam D7 Tank can sell up to £100 as they are quite rare.

But like i said, if you have any questions or queries or any pictures you would like for me to display plase get in touch :)

cheers

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First Post

Hey Guys,

Just to let you all know i will be putting some pictures of projects I have finished up very very shortly for you to look at. Please feel free to comment or get in touch with me if you like what you see. Everything i post up on here will be for sale if anyone is interested. Thanks for looking  :)

Josh