Orange Clockwork resto

[MuddyFred]

Painting's finished

Just got a bit of flattening off on the frame with microfine sanding pad and then some polishing compounds, before applying the decals.

The forks have had that treatment already. I used them as the guinea pig, seeing as I've never done this before and they would be easier to rectify if I made any cock-ups. But so far so good.

I'm now wondering if I ought to put a few coats of lacquer over the decals, or leave as is. The original factory decals didn't have a coat of lacquer on them. I've never used Gil's decals before so don't know if they would need a coat. Would love to know what other people have done.

In the meantime, I'm searching for an Orange Stalk 1" quill stem, or failing that recommendations on something that looks the same.

Cheers,
fred

 

[brocklanders023]

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Looking ace.

I didn't bother with lacquer when I used Gil's decals and they were fine.

 

[CTK]

Looks a fantastic job.

 

[MuddyFred]

That settles it then brock, no more lacquer. And to be honest with you, I was looking for an excuse not to. Fed up of spraying now! I want to get me spanners out!

Thanks CTK, it's getting there. Slowly.

 

[malt]

That’s come out really good!

Shame you’re fed up of spraying, it looked like you were enjoying it so much that I was going to ask if you fancied spraying a C-16R

 

[MuddyFred]

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I could spray your C-16R malt, but you'd only get upset when I refuse to give it back to you :twisted:

 

[MuddyFred]

Decal day today

Hopefully you can see from the close-up of the Orange logo decal just how good Gil's reproduction decals are. Superb. Thanks Gil.

And thanks to Spibblo for sorting out a Stalk stem. Just need to give it a tickle and respray. So I'm not completely out of the spray paint woods yet (No Malt, NO!).
I'll be ordering some Stalk decals from Gil, as well as some for the Hot Rod handlebars. In the meantime, time to get me spanners out and start reassembling

Cheers,
fred.

 

[Retro Spud]

Great work there Fred !

Liking the Muddy Fox disc wheel lurking in the last pic

 

[malt]

Looks good as new, damn good job you’ve done there.

 

[Spibblo]

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That looks gorgeous!
Good work that man.