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Big paint update for you all. After a week I was pretty happy to get the main colour on this afternoon. First I had the horrible job of masking the lugs which is not something I'd wish on my enemies. If you have a bike with contrasting painted or chrome lugs then yeah... be grateful to the painter.
I also masked the dropouts, bands on the fork legs and the logos.
The first blue I mixed for this I got as far as spraying the fork before I decided I really didn't like it, it felt a bit flat and too similar to the original colour of the frame. I mixed up a teal blue/green instead, keeping it quite sober but I think making for a good contrast with the white lugs and text.
This image showing the frame and fork together isn't quite true to the final colour, the others of them separately are more accurate (at least on my monitor).
After demasking the white I tidied up some of the lug edges with a scalpel and brush and finished up getting a first coat of clear over the whole lot.
I have the Reynolds decals to go on before a final coat some time next week, and I was also toying with the idea of doing a gold stripe on the banding/forks somewhere. Maybe that's too much though, gonna sleep on it.
My Velo Orange mudguards have arrived too, many thanks garanati for your advice.
