I finally got some paint on the fuel tank! Even though the temps were in the 50’s I managed to warm up my garage to about 68 degrees with the help of a few space heaters. That was warm enough to lay down a white laquer base coat and an orange top coat with the Colorite paint.
I love this color and it looks even better out in the full sunlight. Next week I’ll add the Honda wings and logo to the tank and paint the seat. I’ve designed a V45 Sabre logo to go on the seat that looks similar to the Repsol logo typeface.
I did a rendering in Photoshop of what I want the bike to look like when complete as well.
Since the tank is such a large area of orange, I decided that some sort of red element was needed up front. You can see this in the above photo as a triangle forward of the tank. I used a piece of expanded steel mesh painted red to cover that triangle section in the frame.
It’s all in this week’s video.
Keep on hackin!