Flip paint

[peepingtom]

Hi any Tossers out there that have used or had painted any thing with flip paints ? im thinking of painting my 1200 in the green/blue colour and wondered if its DIY able?.
Any info or possible recomendations are welcome

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

Can you spray well?

 

[peepingtom]

err..............that would be a no i can just about do a side panel without a run ,but thats it. ive recently managed to make both my MZ's look worse by painting them
may be im looking for a recomendation thinking about it , close to essex??.
is it difficult then Tuned?

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

err..............that would be a no i can just about do a side panel without a run ,but thats it. ive recently managed to make both my MZ's look worse by painting them
may be im looking for a recomendation thinking about it , close to essex??.
is it difficult then Tuned?

I've seen it done.... i think there is a fair bit of skill to doing it well

 

[paintman]

This is not as difficult as some think, so here you go.

Google rage extream paints for supply (very expensive)

1/ prep panels, (abrase with grey scotch pads).

2/ the whole panel must be painted matt black first.

3/ apply two (only) light coats (dust coats) of paint.

4/ when thourghly dry apply lacquer, two coats at least.

5/ flat out imperfections with p2000 wet and dry, then restore shine with g3 compound.

Tip try and suspend panels vertically, to prevent dust settling in your work.

Good luck. :cool

 

[peepingtom]

thanks for that painterman dosnt sound too bad, great chioce of colours from Rage as you say, just got to pick 1 or 2...

 

[ktmmark]

Yes

 

[elevensies]

the blue/purple combo must be popular as i think every flip painted bike i have seen is that

 

[paintman]

TVR painted quite a few cars in this colour, which made it popular, but the flip effect seems more noticable on this variant, so I guess thats why it is seen so much.
We did a R1 in the same colour for a local doctor about six years ago, he was pretty pleased with it, regretfully I think it was just a trophy bike to polish on sundays, never saw it on the road.

 

[red1]

Nissan did a green/blue/brown flip on Primeras a few years (8?) back. Shite!

 

[Beetle2112]

Alfa did Nuevola Blue as a £1000-00 option on the 166 and some of their GTV and 156 2.5 models...I think TVR used it too, it was a lovely pale blue/gold/greeny colour. I used to get loads of people commenting on it when I had my 166

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

i think flip paint looked good about 5 years ago.... it's a bit past it now