A little striptease...

cadillaczac · Post by **cadillaczac** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:02 am

Finally decided to paint the scooter. So far its strip down and I'm waiting for the weather to cooperate so I can lay the paint...Goodbye Itailia...

Skootz Kabootz · Post by **Skootz Kabootz** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:08 am

The suspense

What color will it be

[And even just that little bit of the Café Racer visible in the background looks good!]

cadillaczac · Post by **cadillaczac** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:15 am

Everything except for the matte green is going to be satin black, If I feel really up to it I might throw in some hot rod scallops, just not sure if I can visaulize scallops with the lines of the buddy. I'm going to have my buddy throw some pinstripes on it and call it "Hellderado" (after just selling my beloved 1960 Cadillac, I have to keep some Cadillac theme).

BuddyLicious · Post by **BuddyLicious** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:08 pm

Ta Da,Can't wait to see how it turns out....

cadillaczac · Post by **cadillaczac** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:22 am

Man, painting plastic sucks. I Just got done painting some panels and the paint I'm using is making it look like crap (think orange peels), they even said this stuff was made for plastic trim such as bumpers on a car. Maybe I got a crappy can of paint (it has been sitting in my garage for over two months) but I am starting to have second thoughts about this...

KRUSTYburger · Post by **KRUSTYburger** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:46 am

Hope you didn't get the Valspar for plastics... I should warn against that.

Kurt · Post by **Kurt** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:00 pm

How did you prep the surface? I think at a minimum you need to completely sand the surface and then clean it to remove all the dust and any oils.

Sand off the crappy coat and try again!

Undeadendless · Post by **Undeadendless** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:43 pm

cadillaczac wrote:Finally decided to paint the scooter. So far its strip down and I'm waiting for the weather to cooperate so I can lay the paint...Goodbye Itailia...

NAKERS!!!!!

cadillaczac · Post by **cadillaczac** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:30 am

I ended up using some fine steel wool to scuff up the surface, then used the shower to wash the parts clean. I think the can of the paint I got, which was SEM trim black, sucked. I switched to Krylon and its a little better. I guess I'm not all gunho any more about making this look perfect. At first I was contemplating spraying it with our spray gun but decided to forget the hassle of mixing paint and reducer and spray bomb the thing. Its coming out alright, and I figured if I get tired of it I'll paint it again. Hopefully I'll have pic's up this weekend.

Lostmycage · Post by **Lostmycage** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:48 am

KRUSTYburger wrote:Hope you didn't get the Valspar for plastics... I should warn against that.

Really? I had excellent results with the Valspar Plastic paint. I'm getting ready to try some Krylon on the Blur, but I ran into Mrs Latch who used the exact same color I bought for the Blur and she had not so great results.

I'm holding off for the time being, I like doing these things just once.

I'm looking forward to how this turns out!

KRUSTYburger · Post by **KRUSTYburger** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:49 pm

Well, maybe it was just the can I got, but the Valspar was doing some funky texturized beading up or something when I was painting my dad's helmet black. I had to sand it off and use something else.

Kurt · Post by **Kurt** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:20 pm

KRUSTYburger wrote:Well, maybe it was just the can I got, but the Valspar was doing some funky texturized beading up or something when I was painting my dad's helmet black. I had to sand it off and use something else.

How long did you shake it?

cadillaczac · Post by **cadillaczac** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:13 pm

Here's a sneek peek so far...I've got a little more work to do and found some other stuff I want to paint satin black (to soften the lines in the two tone paint) but it's off to the motorcycle flat track races!!!!

Modern Buddy

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