[Indian2003]

Here are some other pictures. The parts have only the base colour on. The silver base coat.


This my firtst attempt to get the smoke put on and correcting it.


Here the base goat is done and ready for the clear coat. As I was doing the clear coat, a dragon fly got stuck on the side. I had to carefully sand down that side and fill and touch up with silver. These parts are at home and had to be transported to the club 50 km away for painting.


My fairing and seat cowl is ready for pinstriping


An old BMW dealer in the US gave me the recipe for the original smoke colour. In the Netherlands Teo Terwell specialized in restoring BMW motorcycles. He used only a black smoke and was over the moon when I told him I had the original green smoke recipe for the paint. He mixed the paint for me for the recipe. This transparent colour is adjusted by the number of layers.


My old and new instruments. The old one in that state can still be rebuilt. I have kept all the old parts. This was the first bike with a cockpit.
oat.

[Tgo]

Wonderful to see this restoration and the initiative of taking up the painting yourself. The fade of black into silver is impressive. I believe you would have had to train you hand to follow the curves of the tank with the tank serving up as the only practice piece?

Originally Posted by Indian2003

There is a limit of 30 pictures and even then while writing captions and previewing, they turned to attachments. I have hundreds of pictures. I will try to post some of them here.

I type in the text first, then upload the pics and then insert them wherever they go in the text. Keeping them uploaded for long makes the link go away and it turns into the attachment you mention.

[Indian2003]

Originally Posted by Tgo

Wonderful to see this restoration and the initiative of taking up the painting yourself. The fade of black into silver is impressive. I believe you would have had to train you hand to follow the curves of the tank with the tank serving up as the only practice piece?

I did my tank first but i practiced the shading on a piece of cardboard. I did this just before I painted the tank. The rest of the parts were much easier as I moved from the tank to the fairing and the tail with the same mix of colours.