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JustcallmeMrT:
Can anyone recommend someone who can do pinstriping on a tank?  Local paint shops can't do it so at a bit of a loss where to go.  I'm hoping to do something like in the photo below.

AshimotoK0:
Why not have a go yourself ? You seem to be a pretty fast learner on the way you have progressed with your project bike. Back in the day when I didn't have a lot of dosh, I sprayed this tank myself (with no experience) and masked off the pinstripes, and painted them on with paint taken from puncturing old rattle cans and used a' Humbro'l elcheapo airbrush gun to spray them on. I seem to remember you could get pressure sensitive, conformable masking tape then for pinstripes but I am sure things will have progressed in almost 30 years in the bodyshop trade. There was nobody doing 400/4 tank graphics in those days.

Ash

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JustcallmeMrT:
Now that was something I never considered... always considered paint to be a bit of voodoo.

AshimotoK0:

--- Quote from: JustcallmeMrT on May 05, 2015, 05:08:19 PM ---Now that was something I never considered... always considered paint to be a bit of voodoo.

--- End quote ---

Think it is with Candy paint but if you can stand having it in metallic then not so bad.

Ash

mike the bike:
My grandad used to paint tanks in the war.   Green mostly.

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