My 350 project

[royhall]

Tim.
Dropped my tins off for painting last week.
Just been in tonight with the decals and he's mixed a batch of paint (a modern metallic equivalent) that I honestly cannot tell the difference from the original. So well happy with that. He says that the recipe is done by weight so he can replicate it exactly whenever it's required, accidents etc.
Quoted me £380 but I supply the decals (£44).
Will post some pictures in a few weeks when I get it back, and the final price.

[Tiny Tim]

Look forward to seeing the finished paint work Roy.
That is a decent price, what colour did you decide on in the end?

[royhall]

Hope you had a good holiday.

He's matching the paint up to a good sample of Candy Bacchus Olive. The sample is a damaged headlamp ear that has unfaded like new paint on the inside.

The olive colour is actually Candy Gold over Metallic Blue. He can do that for me at a dearer price but is certain that the metallic route is cheaper/more robust/less fading and nobody will be able to tell the difference. That's a brave claim so will wait and see how it turns out. But the paint mix he showed me looked absolutely spot on so I am hopeful.

Cheers.

[Tiny Tim]

Right then, time for an update.
Tins were dropped off to the painters today.
I've been assured by the chromers I'll get my stuff back end of the month.

Should be taking the engine over to a mechanic friend of mine in a couple of weeks to strip and rebuild. His help has been invaluable over the past couple of months.

I'll sort out some more pictures this weekend.
Getting there slowly and when funds allow.

[Tiny Tim]

Right then, time for a long overdue update.

I've not had a great deal of time to work on the bike apart from dropping off and collecting parts.

Paint is done, engine is in a workshop and should be back in 6 weeks, wheels have tyres, lots of parts ordered, lots of the wrong parts delivered! and the chrome is sort of done (long story)


I would have liked to be further along with the project but other things always seem to crop up when you least expect it.

One thing I do need to find is a complete set of stickers, am I correct in thinking Piki is the right person to ask on the forum?

Cheers

Tim

[SteveD CB500K0]

Bit of a problem with the images (they read here as 0kb and won't open)

When uploading, select "Inline Full-size image" like this:

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[Tiny Tim]

I've tried to upload pictures from my iPad & Dropbox and as yet no success.