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Teds new project a CB500 K1 mostly version 0.5 circa 1972.
K2-K6:
--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on October 13, 2022, 07:48:37 PM ---You make a good point K2-K6 about a lighter colour drawing attention to the frame.
I think I got away with it on my 400 but the 500 especially if it ever gets the original silencers is a very different kettle of fish.
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Agree Ted, the 400 was a shift in style to more modern with tank and seat form being noticeably a step away from earlier traditional drawing of these 4 cylinder Honda. They seem to take on colours more easily as they originally were those very plain tank colours without real embellishment, also the pipe "display" being front predominantly.
The 4 pipers are all about the display of those pipes to give the character from that era. Obviously very personal choice to make and a little difficult to fully visualise at this stage. Hope you get what you want as it's always nice to own something that you can just look at and be very pleased with, especially given the cost and effort put into it.
I do like brown, with many of the original paint schemes on these having that colour pallet (technically the golds are really a lighter brown in colour spectrum) it's prediction of ultimate combination that's a trial and error.
Coincidentally I've recently bought a mtb cycle frame in that very dark metallic brown with manufacturer logo in black, a very nicely made aluminium welded structure that looks spectacularly good as it shows that element off so well.
Hope you can decide by the time you reach the paint shop :)
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Thank you everyone for talking me out of Nut Brown - when I looked at the colour sample swatch it was too light in the daylight anyways - they had no very dark browns like I fancied.
I even went to my brothers yesterday to look at one of his brown pedal cycles - an early Carlton - it looked pretty good.
In the end I chose the dullest 30% Gloss Black.
Oh NO, NO, NO, NO BORING BLACK has won ;D ;D ;D
It does give me more freedom of choice when it comes to painting the tank & side panels - at the moment I'm inclined to go for Black like Simons even though I love the Candy Reds.
Johnny4428:
Nice one Ted! The good thing is anything will go with black, even black 😂😂
taysidedragon:
That's a relief, Ted. I can sleep at night now. 😁
Sesman:
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