79 Resto Mod

[wingrider]

Great job so far! I think the side panels do look better lighter, but agree that the flame job should contrast. Nice way to hold the bags!

[Marc]

I agree, the ivory as a background color on the side panels looks good and flows with the rest of the bike.

[fish]

Pokegama that is one beautiful bike...allmost too nice to take out on the road!
I want to express my opinion on your decision to retain the stock tail light and turnsignals...
I think it is smart!
IMHO
the fashionably tiny tailights and no (or tiny) turnsignals is/are unsafe!
I did some customization to the lighting on mine but I went big!
I eliminated the tail light and did some tricks to these so they are stop,tail & turnsignals.. yes I think smaller would look better BUT visibility is important to me

vincent tail lights.jpg

[Pokegama]

Fish, I agree 100%. The last thing I want is to be rear ended by someone. I actually like the looks of the factory lights on the back. The turn signals show up nicely behind the bags.

[Marc]

Fish I really like the idea of removing the large center light cluster in favor of two lights that do all the same things. Looking at the diagram it just takes a little rewiring right??? I also like your license plate mounting but I'm not sure if our Oregon State patrol would agree.

[Pokegama]

I finally got around to getting the flames painted on one of the side covers to see what it would look like. Painting is the least of my skills so there are some flaws on this cover. Thankfully it is just an extra cover so hopefully I can do better on the ones I will use.
Let me know what you think!

[BusaRider]

I've been following your build for a while. I gotta tell you, when I first started reading your thread, I thought what an aweful color combo. As it has come together, it is simply amazing. Everything works to tie the scheme in perfectly. Thanks for posting your beautiful build! It's quickly become one of my favorite builds because it is really different and the attention to detail is outstanding!

[Pokegama]

I've been following your build for a while. I gotta tell you, when I first started reading your thread, I thought what an aweful color combo. As it has come together, it is simply amazing. Everything works to tie the scheme in perfectly. Thanks for posting your beautiful build! It's quickly become one of my favorite builds because it is really different and the attention to detail is outstanding!

Wow...Thank you for the very kind words. Coming from someone with an awesome bike like yours, I am truly flattered.

[Pokegama]

One step closer to being finished. I got the lower covers painted with the flames. A couple of more pictures.

[Pokegama]

Like I said in an earlier post "painting is the least of my skills". Boy did that ring true....I had to sand all the covers back down to the plastic again. The ivory paint lifted off the primer when I lifted the pattern tape off.

On the upside that does give me another opportunity to improve my limited painting skills!

I thought since I have to re-do everything, I would take a few pictures and document how I painted my covers and since my writing skills are worse than my painting skills I will use lots of pictures! I hope you guys don't mind a rather long post.

After sanding everything down (again) I sprayed on some adhesion promoter then a couple of coats of base color. On top of the base I shot a couple coats of clear and sanded everything smooth. Then I started to lay out the flame pattern on the covers using fine line tape. I did this by simply playing around with the tape. I went through a whole roll of tape before I got the pattern the way I liked it. Then I taped some tracing paper over the cover with the tape and did a pencil rub to transfer the pattern to the paper. You need to make a pattern to have the same image on the opposite side of the bike.
Flames laid out with tape on the cover.


Pattern.


Once you have your pattern drawn out you need to punch lots of small holes in it to transfer the pattern to the other cover. To do that you need a pounce wheel.


Just run the pounce wheel over the lines on the pattern to punch the holes then flip the paper over and lightly sand the back side to open up the hole a little better.


This is how it should look, with some light behind it, after sanding.


For the next steps you need a pounce pad, more fine line tape, premask or more painters tape and an X-Acto knife.




Now to transfer the pattern to the cover, tape the pattern to the cover and wipe the pounce pad over it. The chalk comes through the pad on the pounce pad and goes through the holes in the pattern and onto the cover.




After the pattern is on the cover put fine line tape over the pattern and trim any areas that should be open.


Now if the pattern looks the way you want it, cover it up with the premask and cut open the areas you want to paint. Be sure not to cut through into the paint. Use just enough pressure to cut through the premask. Or just tape off the areas you don't want to paint.


After the premask has been cut and peeled just spray on the next color. After that dries a bit, pull the premask and tape off. If everything was done right hopefully your base coat won't lift off like it did for me the first time around!


I painted everything with Duplicolor spray cans. Since what I used was lacquer paint and not resistant to gas spills I covered them all with Spray Max 2K epoxy clear. It worked great! It's an actual 2 part epoxy paint, it sprayed and flowed out beautifully. I did let the lacquer dry for a week before coating with the 2K.


Here's a close up of one of the covers after the 2K clear had cured. I did shoot a mid coat metal flake clear to give the ivory a little sparkle in the sun. It doesn't show up very well in the picture but it looks great in person!

[Lefty]

I am stupified! Outstanding work from A to Z.

[Pokegama]

I did get the bike back together and out in the sun for the first time this year! It's been 2 years in the making but I do like how it turned out. Let me know what you guys think!









Still needs a little tune up but otherwise done!

[wingrider]

Looks great! You did an excellent job!

[past in time tony]

Beautiful bike! Absolutely stunning!

[Fred Camper]

Excellent color matched.