How much paint

[Vettra]

I am going to begin the process of painting my bike. Electra Glide (This will be my first full bike.) I plan on going with a 2 tone. Black over Tangerine Kandy with a graphic separating the two. The Kandy will be over Silver Metallic.

My question is- how much paint should I get for this project? Will one quart of each cover me?

THX,
C

 

[Maylar]

General rule of thumb - one sprayable quart gets around a typical CAR with one coat. Your bike is smaller than a car, but with the fairing and bags there's a lot of surface area. 'Sprayable' means mixed with reducer and (for clear) hardener.

Sooo.. Assuming you mix base 1:1 I would get one pint of each color and a quart of clear. The silver undercoat is kinda universal so you'll probably use it again, I'd get a quart of that as well. If the paint you use mixes less than 1:1 I'd get a quart of the colors too.

p.s. The gun you use makes a big difference. I use half as much paint with my MiniJet as a friend uses with his full size gun. Overspray costs money and wastes paint.

 

[Vettra]

Thanks Dave

 

[Brian Dee]

Sounds like good advise to me Dave. Vettra, I'm sure that Scott will give some good advise on this to. He's no doubt done many a dresser.

 

[Vettra]

One more Q- There is of course pin striping under the clear. How far downshould I remove the exisitng paint/clear? Should I take it all the way down to the primer coat?

 

[TAZ]

If you plan on using the House of Kolor line and you use the UK, you'll have to buy a quart of the candy as this does not come in pints.
Like Dave said, you might as well get a quart of the silver to. Again, if you use HOK, you can only get this in quarts.
Pricing for the HOK paint is inexpensive compared to a quart or even a pint of PPG.

You can get by with a pint of the graphic that separates the two colors.

I normally just take 180 DA and feather out where the pinstripes are. Meaning I basically strip them out from under the clear.
Sometimes you can get by without doing this, but I've had problems before were the pinstripes seem to swell under the new basecoat, and you can see them. So to be safe, just sand them out and feather and prime the areas.

 

[Vettra]

Thanks- I imagine this is a better process than using aircraft stipper and taking it all the way down? I did that on a fender I did and was very messy.