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BonesFX
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This last paint job I'm working on now is Kickin my A** - Let me explian what I've got going on here.
This is a 1999 Harley Standard (it has 10 parts to it) I've done all the bodywork, shaved rivets, streched the tanks with a weld on kit, shaved the rear fender and added a flush LED light.
The guy that owns this bike wants it to be something a little different than your regular flame job, but none the less wants flames in it somewhere. So we decided that we would have a Black base that would be shredded or ripped so that the very front of each piece would be black then the rips would tip halfway back.
Second, we came up with the idea of a checkered back ground of white and black and then dust some silver pearl over that to help break it up from the main black rips.
Third, we still needed to add the flames and what kind of flames - I came up with the idea of kandy flames (brandwine) that would be shot without the base so that they would be transparent coming from underneath the black rips and over the checkers. Then a last minute idea was to add HOK silver mini-flake to the first 2 coats of the kandy then just regular kandy on the last 2 coats to help burry the silver flake and give it great depth.
So I shot the black base (3 coats hok) then laid out the rips and checkes at the same time (masking tape and transfer tape) and cut out both and only pulled the checkers that I wanted to be white (shot 3 coats of white). Pulled all the black checkers and then shot 2 coats of SG100 with a ghost silver pearl added the 2 more coats SG100 for protection and to scuff for the flames. Laid out the flames with 3M blue line and masked - shot 4 total coats of kandy - Unmasked everything - added some airbrush work - drop shadows... --
Now - here's the hard part - -I lay down 4-5 coats of PPG Global clear - last night I'm sandin down the edges to get them flatter before I pinstripe the rips and I still have a paint edge from hell -- My question is - should I have done this differently to help eliminate the huge paint edge - maybe cleared in between the different steps. OR - When some of you shoot kandy flame (5-7 coats) how much clear are you laying on top of that?? Sorry this is so long, but I just wanted to explain it as good as possible -- Thanx!~ ----- Bones!~
This is a 1999 Harley Standard (it has 10 parts to it) I've done all the bodywork, shaved rivets, streched the tanks with a weld on kit, shaved the rear fender and added a flush LED light.
The guy that owns this bike wants it to be something a little different than your regular flame job, but none the less wants flames in it somewhere. So we decided that we would have a Black base that would be shredded or ripped so that the very front of each piece would be black then the rips would tip halfway back.
Second, we came up with the idea of a checkered back ground of white and black and then dust some silver pearl over that to help break it up from the main black rips.
Third, we still needed to add the flames and what kind of flames - I came up with the idea of kandy flames (brandwine) that would be shot without the base so that they would be transparent coming from underneath the black rips and over the checkers. Then a last minute idea was to add HOK silver mini-flake to the first 2 coats of the kandy then just regular kandy on the last 2 coats to help burry the silver flake and give it great depth.
So I shot the black base (3 coats hok) then laid out the rips and checkes at the same time (masking tape and transfer tape) and cut out both and only pulled the checkers that I wanted to be white (shot 3 coats of white). Pulled all the black checkers and then shot 2 coats of SG100 with a ghost silver pearl added the 2 more coats SG100 for protection and to scuff for the flames. Laid out the flames with 3M blue line and masked - shot 4 total coats of kandy - Unmasked everything - added some airbrush work - drop shadows... --
Now - here's the hard part - -I lay down 4-5 coats of PPG Global clear - last night I'm sandin down the edges to get them flatter before I pinstripe the rips and I still have a paint edge from hell -- My question is - should I have done this differently to help eliminate the huge paint edge - maybe cleared in between the different steps. OR - When some of you shoot kandy flame (5-7 coats) how much clear are you laying on top of that?? Sorry this is so long, but I just wanted to explain it as good as possible -- Thanx!~ ----- Bones!~
