discussion What I paint when I'm not painting models

[Guest]

I figured some might like seeing some of my shop creations

Trike before

during

after

Harley before

after

and my lid

anybody else that paints feel free to post up some pics would love to see them

 

[Guest]

Oooo, that Trike looks really nice as does the Harley. In my days of biking, all helmets came with a warning that applying paint or stickers could damage the helmet shell and reduce it's capability to protect on impact. Do you use special paint or have things moved on a bit since then?

 

[Guest]

I like the helmet, that'd go very nicely with my ZXR750 H1

I don't have any pics myself but a friend does airbrush work and did my Z650 tank and panels to my design.

The work he's done on his own Z900 engined Harris is phenomenal, too busy for me but very very intricate, he's just finishing up a Suzuki Bandit he bought cheap and has modified into a turbo'ed drag bike with a GSXR 750 engine and turbo charger.

Gallery - Bikes

My Z's near the bottom of this page, his bandit at the top and somewhere in there his Harris and Beetle engined trike

 

[Guest]

Beautiful spray job Trey, very clean job, very cured paint there, you got some sort of damping light or heat drying source.

 

[Guest]

Oooo, that Trike looks really nice as does the Harley. In my days of biking, all helmets came with a warning that applying paint or stickers could damage the helmet shell and reduce it's capability to protect on impact. Do you use special paint or have things moved on a bit since then?

thanks Graham.The paints do'nt effect the shell as I never sand thru the factory coating,and there not injected molded plastic anymore

Trey

 

[Guest]

m1ks great link some serious a/b work in there,what year is your Zxr? I had an 89.

 

[Guest]

Beautiful spray job Trey, very clean job, very cured paint there, you got some sort of damping light or heat drying source.

Ray thanks and no just what ever the ambient temp is ,wish I did but my power bill is high enough without it lol

 

[Guest]

m1ks great link some serious a/b work in there,what year is your Zxr? I had an 89.

Mines an 89, (the H1 was the first gen, 89 then the H2 - 90 with only minor changes externally but a few internally), the H1 is the original and to my mind the best, 21 years old and still terrifying when you twist that throttle

Have some pics somewhere, will dig one up and post it for you.

 

[Guest]

I'll comment on that after I pick up my jaws from the floor.

 

[Guest]

Real nice work mate, top marks.

Andy

 

[tr1ckey66]

Great work Trey - love the trike!

Cheers

Paul

 

[Guest]

Mines an 89, (the H1 was the first gen, 89 then the H2 - 90 with only minor changes externally but a few internally), the H1 is the original and to my mind the best, 21 years old and still terrifying when you twist that throttleHave some pics somewhere, will dig one up and post it for you.

cool would love to see a pic,I had over 200,00 miles on my 2nd gen(3 engine swaps)finally bought the zx10r .I had the first gen as well but the top end went south after 6 mos of riding.The funny part is I have a 71 2stroke H1 wierd how Kawi uses the same designations sometimes

 

[Guest]

thanks Andy and Paul

 

[Guest]

few more

yet another HD

My old race bike

Bobber tank

 

[Guest]

That's a loud race bike, you trying to make a statement about it's point of origin?

 

[Guest]

Found one of the 750 H1

(the letter designations were used across lots of Kawasaki's, the most famous being of course the 750 2 stroke triple H1)

They went K to M I think on the ZXR range, (i think they were designated ZX stateside and part of the Ninja range we didn't get Ninja until quite a while after you guys, we had the same bikes, just different names)

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[Guest]

That's a loud race bike, you trying to make a statement about it's point of origin?

lol yea I was catching some flak from some Buell mounted competition

 

[Guest]

Found one of the 750 H1(the letter designations were used across lots of Kawasaki's, the most famous being of course the 750 2 stroke triple H1)

They went K to M I think on the ZXR range, (i think they were designated ZX stateside and part of the Ninja range we didn't get Ninja until quite a while after you guys, we had the same bikes, just different names)

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wow miks you're getting me teary eyed seeing that beauty, I miss mine here it is in trackday trim