peabody99 wrote:this interior thread got me to thinking....
my cream with black interior is looking bad. the interior black is faded and dull. I am happy to hear you can mask off and krylon. It really does not drip?
minor thread stealing alert: what colors would go with cream if I wanted to move away from basic black? open to anything
I would venture to say that you can get away with pretty much any color with cream! Depends on how adventurous you want to be... They do make the Krylon in a black, so you could just touch things up and not have to worry about little scrapes and scuffs (yawn).
If you go with a darker color it would be easier to cover and when the paint gets scuffed it would be less obvious.
If you have not used spray paint before I really urge you to get some and paint some things that are not as precious as your scooter... surely you have some lawn furniture hanging around that could stand some freshening up? If not, get some and practice on that.
This will also give you a chance to check out the actual color and see if it is what you are looking for.
You can always Google tips for using spray paint, the thing that I have to constantly remind myself is to put a very light coat on and then build up from there. You can always do another coat but try to put too much on at once and you WILL get a drip or a ripple and then it will look like crap.
I also think that it helps to go across the article, like you are making stripes-but they touch-from side to side (the Krylon sprayer has a cool little directional thing that you can rotate to go up and down, side to side or whatever works) and stop the spray between stripes spray off of the article, you don't want to be pointing the sprayer at the article when you press the button to start the spray because you will be more prone to getting too much all at once and getting a drip. (I hope that makes sense, it is hard to describe).
If you miss a spot or don't get enough to cover, which is actually what I go for-because I know I am not getting too much on at once, just let it sit for a bit and then do another coat, and on until you have a nice consistent coat of paint.
I love the blue with the blue, I think that it will be quite a beautiful look! When you are done, please post pictures, if you can figure out how (unlike me
).
For the cream, I would love to see a nice taupe or khaki interior, I think that would be pretty-in a sensible-pair-of-shoes kind of look.
If you want to get away from the black, but stay dark you could go with the "Patriotic Blue" (not quite a royal blue, but kind of close) and that would look nice, a tad boring, but more interesting than the black.
Something a bit more daring (IMHO) would be to go with a red, like their "Sun Dried Tomato" which is a warm medium red or the "Red Pepper" which I think is a beautiful color and would look lovely with cream.
Now, I love green and think that their "Ivy Leaf" is a fabulous color, but you gotta like that color-and some people
loathe that color.
This is going to be fun.
I might have to see if my friend Dutch
will let me borrow his garage since I don't have one of my own and with my luck I will get some damn Japanese Beetle landing in my perfect paint job and making a mess of it if I do it at my house.
-v
) in Cedarhurst in the 80's 
