yes that fazer paint work of yours does look very good indeed. If I can figure out how to work paint shop I might have a go at editing a pic of my bike with a black belly and front mud guard to see what it looks like, maybe even try with a few different ideas that I would be able to do myself. Unless that is a computer wizz on here who likes photo shop and fancies a go
These are the best 2 of the side. If you fancy having a play at designs I could do easily myself feel free. You never know, your design could become real haha. Bit of incentive for people
Just a thought. If the paintwork has just faded from the sun rather than had panels resprayed badly in the past. Then the bike just needs a good bit of detailing work done to it. Speak to Chric regarding it. Yeh you could use T-cut but that's hard work to do properly and as a rubbing compound very aggressive to the paintwork. There are far superior products on the market.
Well I know it has had a respray at some point. There is evadence of this on the insides of the panels. It may have faided a little in the sun but I think the mud guard used to be the same shade. Biggest problem with the front mug guard is that there is so many stone chips in it it might as well be pink, its ulgy. As I said the belly pan was painted a few years a go with the nearest colour red the last bloke had to hand. This is the biggest difference in red shade which does make the bike stand out but for the wrong reasons I think.
If the mudguard is the most offputting - then why not have a go at spraying that first with a rattlecan of R157, which can't be any worse than the sunfaded pink. If you don't want the belly pan changed then for for an overall paint job you'll need to get a colour match made on that and spray the whole bike with that colour. Problem is if the bellypan has faded also then all you'll be doing is spraying your bike with a faded colour match.
With your time limitation of a weekend to respray the whole bike from top to bottom - the original option sounds good - though you'll save time and money if you do as much prep as you can yourself, with removing stickers, sanding down (take some decent photos if want to recreate the castrol belly pan / any other decals) and chat with the painters and/or a vehicle vinyl sign makers so you've got all the references and decals for whoever does the job.
It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
Here is a very rough idea of what she would look like with a black pan and mud guard. I have to admit it is warming on me. May even look into carbon wrapping the mud guard, maybe even the black part of the belly pan but here is an idea. Like I say, it is rough
When I try the colour replacement tool I just get a dodgy grey colour
Cut out item, put on it's own layer. make duplicate, fill top layer Black and apply the luminosity blending mode which turns it grey with highlights. Merge those two layers and make duplicate. Fill top Black and add an overlay blending mode.
Grey looks good.
how about Green
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Mud guard looks good. Almost a carbon effect look. Any chance of you being able to get the green part back on the belly pan?
Think I need to be taught how to use things like paint/photo shop ect. As you can see my skills on there are rather minimal. Only just figured out how to make it black. And I had to colour it myself haha.
That looks alright that does. Trying to imagine the gree front mud guard too :s
Just looked into buying photo shop so I did not have to rely on you guys as you more than likely have more important things to do but my gosh it is expensive.
