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Earlier this week @OddJob told me that the "checker" was in the mail. So today I checkered the mail box and sure enough I was able to cash in on some cool attire to match Holeshot! Thanks brother!!!

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Seems the whole world is on track with KF's build this summer.....
Today's Google image is Lyudmila 'Rat Rud'-enko.
World chess champion from 1950-53.

Is that really a chess board she is holding...I THINK NOT! It's another doo-dah-checker-dad for holeshot!

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Found this cool image on the web

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UPDATE EDIT - FAILED EXPERIMENT! - Scrapping the headbadge for this build.

Tedious work of painting layers of clear or other colors on seat and small parts.

I did paint the Clay Smith Cams Mr Horsepower headbadge with the red Metalcast. Most of this will be scraped off and other paint added by hand.

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Using this as a reference

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Looks like I'll be scratching the painted headbadge idea. I lack the steady hand for this level of fine line detail painting. It would have been a cool detail, but no big loss since the springers and triple tree block most of the headbadge area anyway.
 
Let’s get cooking time is ticking


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Waiting for seat clear coats to dry. Exciting stuff. :21:

Not much left to do on this build.
 
What is that called. I can guess how it works. I even tried using a toothpick as a fine paint tip :D

It's called a flow pen or flow pencil. The one pictured is basic but they can get pretty fancy, too. The ones made by Paasche are a lot like an unpowered airbrush. They're simply gravity-fed when the nib gets depressed.
 
While waiting on paint to dry, I finally found the 3G Chopper Maltese pedals that I got from @gigmata a while back.

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These are gonna be cool with the curving checkerboard treatment. Got them taped off and a satin white base coat. I'll follow with a couple of coats of Pearl Mist, and then I can layout the curving checkerboards.

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Like the pedal idea. I perused the parameters of our wholesalers 17 pages with 25 pedals to a page today at the shop. Didn't see anything as cool as these ^ will be.
 
The Pearl Mist is dry on the pedals. Time to play some checkers.

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