A Few More Recent Pieces...been Busy!

[Spinner]

Got a few more pics back so here they are to share, comments & questions welcome as always.

Cheers,

Chris

Shadow Aero 750 whaletail tank bib with celtic trinity cross tooling in ultramarine blue acrylic.

A memorial message is cut in below honoring the owner's brother.

2007 VTX1800F Whaletail tank bib with 12mm chrome spots & "VTX Knight" logo tooling in Hot Rod Yellow acrylics.

2007 Harley Davidson Road King Classic rear fender bib with 12mm chrome spots & soaring eagle tooling in various acrylics.

2003 Harley Davidson Dyna Superglide (FXDX) tank bib with 12mm chrome spots. This one was a custom job per the client to fit under & mimic the OEM dash. He had some tank weld/paint repairs made at the lower mounting bracket that sparked the idea (versus a full gas tank paint job).

[benlilly1]

Hi Spinner, you have been busy! I especially like the 2003 superglide bib with the chrome spots! My favorite! SHNAZZY!

[OdinUK]

Fantastic work! My favourtie is the eagle soaring over the mountins, absolutely stunning tooling there. Did you use acrylics? What finish did you use? I like the moulding around the tanks too.

[Spinner]

Thanks benlilly! That one was a fun deviation from the norm.

Thanks Odin!

I did use acrylics to color the tooling. I use two brands currently, Golden Fluid Acrylics and GWS:Citadel Acrylics. Both have great lightfastness, are very durable and thin easily for airbrush use. I used a combination of air brush & normal paint brushes on the eagle bib background to get the fades & transitions. For the finish, I use Super Sheen sprayed on in 4 light coats, letting it tack up in between each coat similar to automotive clear coating and then let it dry/harden in a warm room for 24 hours.

The GWS:Citadel acrylics are my latest find. They are usually used for painting models by tabletop game players (Warhammer 40k and such games) and are very durable as such. The models are handled constantly during games and the colors stand up to a good beating. They also have 145 different colors so finding/mixing custom colors is a snap. Some of their line even have texture to them (sand, snow, etc) and can be built up while others work like ceramic glazes and are a translucent top color for stained glass like tinting. Only drawback to the GWS paints is they are fairly expensive but so far have been worth it.

[OdinUK]

Thanks for the info Spinner. I'll look into that, I know someone into those games, Ill ask if she has those paints.

I have a spray can of supersheen but Ive not used it on a live project yet.

I love those bibs:) Very inspiring...

[Spinner]

Thanks for the info Spinner. I'll look into that, I know someone into those games, Ill ask if she has those paints.

I have a spray can of supersheen but Ive not used it on a live project yet.

I love those bibs:) Very inspiring...

I actually have one of the GWS color pamphlets on the wall of my shop, I'll see about scanning it so you and everyone else can check out the color range.

Good fun stuff.

[Tina]

Beautiful work as always Spinner, my favvo has to be the eagle

[Spinner]

Thanks Tina!

[ReneeCanady]

WOW! Amazing job! Love all the color combos, and well black leather for me goes with out saying lol.

[Spinner]

WOW! Amazing job! Love all the color combos, and well black leather for me goes with out saying lol.

Thanks Renee! Yeah, the biker crowd I mainly deal with 99% think there are two leather colors: black and everything else, so it's nice when someone wants to go that extra step and throw some colors in there.