(MBBO4 Class 1) Super Slingshot

[CRASH]

It's red. But it's old and bleached out, and who cares. It's a shop rag.

Sanding, sanding and more sanding. I've applied about 4 filler coats and have sanded the bike twice knocking down the high spots and getting the frame and fork smooth as porcelain. I should be in the paint booth in the morning.

 

[CRASH]

PAINT DAY! (Warning: This is NOT Smoopy paint. Nothing to drop your jaw over. It's just a recreation of a Huffy paint scheme I wanted).

Hangin' the fork.

Hangin' the frame.

Hit them with the green first.

And the seat clamp

Then I hit them with the purple and the clear.

I'm going to let them cure for about a week. I've still got a lot of parts to polish and prep for this build, and of course I'm still waiting on the Flaming Stack chain guard. I really hope he pulls through. I'm very worried about that.

 

[Green Dragon]

looking good, interesting color combo, will be wild done

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Nice paint Crash! You are the king of the fade job!

Luke.

 

[CRASH]

As a reminder for what I was going for... even though the colors don't look good in this pic, I took the Anti-freeze green from the Super Stocks you see a lot. And the purple I matched pretty well to my daughter's 24" Super Stock. So I think the colors are pretty accurate to what the bike in the ad should look like.

 

[CRASH]

Cleaned up the console tonight by replacing the decals and polishing the "chrome". It's still got a bit of damage, but it cleaned up pretty well and reflects much better now.

 

[CRASH]

Discovered a bit of an issue with the "red" paint marker I bought to create the red lines for my tires. It came out more pink than red. Now I have to scramble for a solution before the deadline.

 

[rusty63]

Discovered a bit of an issue with the "red" paint marker I bought to create the red lines for my tires. It came out more pink than red. Now I have to scramble for a solution before the deadline.

Go to the auto parts store and get red vinyl dye (for seats). Spray it into a cup, let it sit for a minute to evaporate a bit of the solvent, then brush it on. It will take a couple of coats, but it will look great.

 

[Chief]

Looking great--nice fade on the paint.

 

[Green Dragon]

Had that same issue with the paint pens I used on my Spyder tires, look pink-ish. Although I used craft store paint pens, not the WalMart Elmers ones ppl reccomend.

For the console - I've yet to do mine, but was thinking about sanding it smooth and covering with 'Bare Metal Foil' ( the model car guys use this iultra thin adhesive shrome for trim,etc - should be able to get at any well stocked hobby shop ). if you put the seams on the corners, unseen places it should work, Not sure when I'll try it out but I did get the foil already.
hmm...

 

[CRASH]

I got chrome tape from O'Riellys to try that on another one I have.

 

[rfeagleye]

Also for the cover, I told CRASH to use chrome tape, I think it would cover well. Here is what I bought to use on covers like this:

http://images.oreillyauto.com/parts/img/large/trm/t1818.jpg

They have it at auto parts stores, I bought mine at O'Reilly's.

 

[rfeagleye]

Lol, I was slow on the post!

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

Paint looks sweet dude!
I'd love to have one of those shifters for my 'Rail 7' build from last year's MBBO. If you have a lead on any, let me know.
Cheers!


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[CRASH]

Also for the cover, I told CRASH to use chrome tape, I think it would cover well. Here is what I bought to use on covers like this:

http://images.oreillyauto.com/parts/img/large/trm/t1818.jpg

They have it at auto parts stores, I bought mine at O'Reilly's.

That's exactly what I bought. It'll be for the one with the really bad chrome, but nice decals.

 

[CRASH]

Paint looks sweet dude!
I'd love to have one of those shifters for my 'Rail 7' build from last year's MBBO. If you have a lead on any, let me know.
Cheers!

They are like hen's teeth. Rob Eagleeye has a nice shifter for sale, but I haven't seen a console on Ebay in forever. Last one I saw was broken and the guy still wanted a mint for it.

Another problem is decals. I bought Rob's last wood grain decal and I've never seen them sold otherwise. A guy I know sells the shifter decals (Black with the white numbers) but not the wood grain.

 

[CRASH]

I brought my frames home today. My 7 year old daughter said this frame looked like it was from Scooby Doo!


She's been grounded.

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

Got a deal working with Rob on a shifter, probably gonna run it 'console free' for a while.....


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[CRASH]

Merry Christmas all!!

As I wait for the paint to cure I'm polishing... everything. Every nut, every washer, every bolt. I think I've mentioned that. But to prove how ridiculous I get I took a "progress" pic of the front fender. This is the underside. You know, the part no one will ever see. But... I fully removed the rust, and polished it. I POLISHED IT! (Ok, to be fair I was in the garage avoiding my mother-in-law as much as I could. But... I polished the underside of a fender that will never be seen. (And yes, I did go on to complete the entire underside.)

I have issues.

 

[GuitarlCarl]

Between the sweet paint and your attention to detail the only choice is to polish all the chrome... This will be another of your beautiful builds my friend. Too cool.

Carl.