mkone":3osw7nrg said:
:shock: just talking about loosing fingers the other week, i was moaning that i couldnt play guitar as i mashed my left hand up in a bike accident(did loose a couple of front teeth too though, but not quite as bad as digits) i lost a knuckle so cant bend my fingers. A friend kindly pointed out Django Reinhardt played guitar with just 2 fingers, so dont give up on piano just yet
Anyway, this is coming on really nice, getting a bit good at Magura referb now too! dont think the glow in the dark paint would have looked great though, reminds me of Triggers paint Del-boy painted the flat in
Mark
Without or without the full compliment of 10 I never was going to be musical - and The Only Fools and reference made me smile, proper blast from the past
Anyway back to the real world and the here and now !
Before I go mad with the cyanide based 2K clear coat and kill myself I thought I’d apply a light base coat and adhere the waterslide decals, Here’s the starting position and my selection of surprisingly “off the peg” decals from Velocals which I found by accident whilst looking for the TREK specific chain stay protector
Never used waterslides on a frame before, mind you I’ve never painted a frame before either - as all the others have gone off to Argos in Bristol and come back all shinny and new looking – anyone who tells you patina is cool is wrong (unless of course the scratches and dents were made by Tomac etc)
As I didn’t have big enough Kahooners to jump straight in I thought I’d start off with something small and settled upon the USA decal, being water slides they are far more forgiving than self adhesive decals and you can to an extent move them around.
Progress was slow but thanks to some careful measurements before removing the old decals I knew exactly where they were applied in the factory
And here’s where I pretty much ended up, the tiny decal on the drive side top tube below the Composite logo has slipped but thankfully spotted when looking at the pics and being the last one to be applied I was able to square it up….
I don’t know what I was thinking but I got sooo carried away I fitted the chainstay protector which I had only gotten out to take a pic of it along with the decals before starting work – needless to say its sooo darn sticky there was no way it was coming off and I’ve not finished the clear coat process yet !
and with my matching Magura's
At Least I’ve not attached the NOS headtube tin badge
looking forward to the weekend now and warm weather along with plenty of ventilation, and get some real shine into those tubes. Still not sure what to do with the chainstay, might have a go at masking it up :facepalm:
