"RATTLE CAN" BLING! ...everything is here!

[JRK5892]

here is my most recent rattle can bling... well un-bling... with some airbrush work tossed in

 

[Modgod1]

I'll have to read this whole thing later.

 

[roflcopter]

FYI... Not sure if this is the best place to share this... but Autozone has buy one, get one 50% off of DupliColor 'perfect match' paints right now. My Autozone has a pretty small selection compared to O'reillys (only 4 shades of white @ AZ vs about 10 @ O'r), but its still a pretty decent deal. 2 cans for $10.50

 

[KIKH400]

OK--I read alot of pages and may have missed it...so here's my question. My bike had a rattle can job that hadn't been clear-coated, and gas that had been spilled and that I spilled really screwed up the paint. I'm stripping all the paint off the tank and tail, and am going to repaint. If I use the Rustoleum stuff--primer, gloss black, and then clear coat, will the clear coat really protect the paint from gas spills?

I just read about the spray max 2 part, but was wondering about the rustoleum clear.

Some of the work posted up here is just amazing. That black/gold job a couple of pages back is incredible.

 

[JustinLonghorn]

Rustoleum's clear coat will not protect the paint from gas. Definitely use the Spraymax 2k clear.

 

[KIKH400]

Thanks. Current plan then is rustoleaum prime and gloss black, followed by spraymax clear.

 

[teazer]

+1 on Spraymax 2K

 

[GK]

Ok haven't gone thru whole thread just yet, so forgive me if someone has already mentioned this idea
If most of you guys have a shed like mine it is not the best place to be laying down paint with the amount of dust and crap in the place.
I got this idea off my daughters after they spray tanned themsleves, they pop up in seconds and can be zipped up and sealed in between coats for a dust free enviroment to paint in

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Ohhhh it's a paint booth like a tent!
I thought it was the top view of a tank and couldn't figure out, for the life of me, WTF your post meant... :

 

[MILKY]

great thread... thanks so much

just hope i can be as useful when it comes to my build

 

[fuggers]

How do you do two tones with spray paint though. I want to do a black/cream tank.

Do you just lay down the cream over the entire tank then mask then spray the black right on top of that? Do I need to primer over the cream in those soon to be black sections or will the black stick to the cream coat just fine?

I also wonder what it would look like with the black as the undercoat and the cream on top, just darken it up?

 

[JustinLonghorn]

Lay down the cream color (over primer of course). Wet sand. Mask. Lay down Black. Remove mask. Wet sand. Clear. Wet sand. Cut. Buff.

Pretty.

 

[delirium trigger]

great thread! heres my matte tank i spray bombed thanks to the advice in this thread.

 

[delirium trigger]

ignore the disaster the rest of the bike still is :S

 

[modifiedamerican]

what spray paint did u use?

 

[delirium trigger]

krylon filler primer,gloss black paint/primer, and matte black top coat

 

[delirium trigger]

did the fenders too, but i used a trimclad rust/metal paint. to me the colour is nicer with the krylon tho

 

[cjrenick]

Well I have looked thru all 32 pages, lol. Maybe I missed something. What about a two tone with gloss and flat. I want to paint tank and fender orange then add a flat black race stripe. Do I do orange first, wet sand, clear and mask for the flat black?

 

[delirium trigger]

i think that sounds the most logical. you can clearcoat the matte with a satin clear, i didnt like it because its not a true flat but i did my headlight trim just for the added protection, u can see the difference if you look closely in the pic.
for me, i would do the orange, clearcoat than do a matte black vinyl if its a large strip.

 

[Boulevard_beck]

I make noobs look good, so take this with some salt, but I thought it would be: prime, color, wet sand, stripe, clear coat. I always thought the clear coat came last to "seal" everything in. No?