Paint jobs - Please take a look.

[Neil W]

Paint on the X7 tank looks thicker than the actual steel they are made of !!

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

Here's another full Jobbie!

2017 spec R1200GS LC with 30 miles on the clock!

Apologies in advance for anyone that has bought one of these in this original colour but I genuinely cannot believe how dull it is

IMG_3607 by tunneruk, on Flickr

IMG_3606 by tunneruk, on Flickr

So I set to work!

IMG_3737 by tunneruk, on Flickr

IMG_3743 by tunneruk, on Flickr

IMG_3744 by tunneruk, on Flickr

_MG_9141_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

_MG_9142_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

_MG_9133_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

_MG_9135_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

_MG_9145_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

_MG_9139_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

_MG_9139_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

While this was going on I got my good friend Simon at Hoodz County Customs in Rochford to work his magic on the seats .. his work as always is superb

_MG_9136_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

_MG_9137_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

And here's the happy customer!!

_MG_9148_1 by tunneruk, on Flickr

 

[Auwyn]

Any chance you could do a timelapse video of your work as you do it?

 

[g00ner]

Any chance you could do a timelapse video of your work as you do it?

It would be 72% biscuit eating

 

[Auwyn]

It would be 72% biscuit eating

Mmmm...biscuits

 

[DING-DONG]

Such a transformation, the wheels do really stand out being painted white and makes the bike look very sporty .

Very nice

 

[timeandtide]

Damn -that's a mighty fine lookin' sickle

 

[leadfarmer]

Personally I love the Frozen Dark Blue, but I would that's what I bought

Just seems strange to pay the extra 100 quid for that colour if you're going to have it painted over, unless maybe it was a stock bike ???

Either way, stonking paint job as ever, love your work

I used to do re-shells in a previous life and also prep them for painting so I know a little about the subject, I didn't paint though

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

Any chance you could do a timelapse video of your work as you do it?

Yeah I guess I could but it would be complicated and time consuming to do ... after all, nobody wants to watch paint dry .... unless of course they'd just read one of Engineer's threads as it would then come as a welcome relief

It would be 72% biscuit eating

How rude ... my biscuit consumption has never dropped that low!!!

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

Personally I love the Frozen Dark Blue, but I would that's what I bought

Just seems strange to pay the extra 100 quid for that colour if you're going to have it painted over, unless maybe it was a stock bike ???

Either way, stonking paint job as ever, love your work

I used to do re-shells in a previous life and also prep them for painting so I know a little about the subject, I didn't paint though

Ah well you see, the bike was a pre-reg 17 spec bike always destined to come to me for this paint job so it's original colour was immaterial. I can say this, the deal on the bike saved a lot more than the cost to have me repaint it!

 

[Auwyn]

Yeah I guess I could but it would be complicated and time consuming to do ... after all, nobody wants to watch paint dry .... unless of course they'd just read one of Engineer's threads as it would then come as a welcome relief

Obviously not that bit. I mean the masking and spraying bit.
You are an amazing artist. I love your work

 

[Packer]

Did you re-paint the frame Chris or is that the single molecule thick factory coating?

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

Obviously not that bit. I mean the masking and spraying bit.
You are an amazing artist. I love your work

Perhaps I'll do one when I'm just doing a custom tank. The hard thing to explain to someone who isn't familiar with the process is just how long the job takes and how much time goes into the invisible side of what creates a great finish which really has little to do with painting! The painstaking prep prep prep and careful cleaning. The back masking and airbrush bleed fixing, the flatting and re-clearing of a finish that a lot of painters would leave and send out the door and finally and the nib and polishing once it's finished.

I'd wager that if I spent a full week working on a full paint job, call it 50 hours, the reality is that out of those 50 hours I'd probably spend 15 minutes with a spray gun in my hand, the rest is prep, prep, mask, prep, clean, spray, mask, prep, clean, spray, mask prep, clean, spray etc etc.

I recently taken someone part time to help me out with the 1st and second stages of the prep, peeling off stickers and rough flatting panels etc. She was absolutely gobsmacked at the amount of time I spent not painting!

It sounds like I'm complaining but I'm really not, I absolutely love what I do, it's so so so satisfying!! (albeit a little misunderstood!)

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

Did you re-paint the frame Chris or is that the single molecule thick factory coating?

No I just painted the cosmetics .....

 

[jonnie comet]

I often wonder if BMW look at stuff like this, and if so, why don't they come up with something similar ??

I guess that there are reasons...financial/paint types/stuff that I don't know anything about/etc.....

That bike looks (to me) so so so much better than the drab thing that you started with......Mission accomplished Sir.....

 

[Nutty]

You forgot the cylinder covers.

And David told me he wouldn't get another bike when he sold my mate his Triple Black.

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

R1200GSA Touratech Edition

IMG_4029 by tunneruk, on Flickr

IMG_4038 by tunneruk, on Flickr

IMG_4032 by tunneruk, on Flickr

 

[Davy F]

Nice job....as usual.

 

[Florence]

Looks good Chris, better than I thought it would

 

[Skid06]

very nice job...i hope he enjoys it as much as i have mine