First job done!

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wammied

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Subject: First job

Welp, thanks to a bunch of help and encouragement from the likes of Rex, Bornhard (lol great name) Jim, and Tiller2nv, and others I'm sure, I've finished my first "real" job, real as in being payed real money for it,
Great experience, already getting geeked over my next proj. (mine) and have two more lined up.
Here are some pics
Thanks again everybody,
Mike

http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/wammied/lst?.dir=/My+Photos

P.S. Not to flatter myself as I could not hold a candle to you guys, but, this is in no way solictous . If not appropriate, please delete.
Thank you,
Mike
 
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wammied

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That is HOK rootbeer candy (about 6-7 coats) over KO-SEAL II metallic surfacer. The rest is BC black and white.
Then 3 coats of UC-35 and then 2 more over reduced.
Still had to scuff and buff (someday I won't))

That's actually a butt joint between the white and the candy so I wouldn't end up with uncatalyzed base between catalyzed candy and clear. Kinda' makes things a pain.
How're you supposed to put graphics on top of candy and then clear?
Not to mention KO-SEAL is catalyzed too.
Meaning that I DO have uncat. between cat.
Their instructions seem contradictory.

Thanks for the compliment, You should've seen it when I got it.
It sat behind a shed for 8 yrs outside and had a baseball size dent on the tank that went through the peak line as well as a bunch of little dents.

Funny, the tank required one additional coat to match the side covers.
It seems that smaller/more curvature=darker for the same number of coats.
Anyway, thanks again,
Mike
 
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tiller2nv

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Wow nice job! Looks like it turned out great! Im diggin the set up you have, Im going to have to do something like that in my garage!
 
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myfamiliacc

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Good job Mike. The bike looks great!!, and it's sounds like your are having fun too, a very important part of any custom paint job (My openion)/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yay.gif
 
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rex

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Nice job man /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bigokay.gif I'm leaving it up for now but someone may erase it later.
 
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wammied

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You guys are da' bomb!
Thanks Rex!
I sure do have fun with it (between the 'cussin')!
My next one is much more ambitious. On an old Honda 750 I'm going to do an oriental dragon catching the rising sun with (of course) flames shooting out of his mouth.
The sides of the tank will have the Honda name in oriental take out menu type font.
I want the overall look to be like that of a piece of black laquer oriental furniture with gold leaf accents.
Of course I'll practice on sheetmetal 'till I'm happy with it.
Stay tuned, should make for some interesting questions!
Regards,
Mike
 
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