What colour primer for Marrakesh Red

[Kenny]

Just a quickie question...

Painting one of my bikes side panels Marrakesh red ( genuine BMW )....what colour primer should I use - no recommendation on the aerosol?
Guy in car accessorry shop reckons red primer but I'm not sure whether grey or red !!
Seeing as this section does the most spraying any 'correct' reccomendation ?

 

[paintman]

Just a quickie question...

Painting one of my bikes side panels Marrakesh red ( genuine BMW )....what colour primer should I use - no recommendation on the aerosol?
Guy in car accessorry shop reckons red primer but I'm not sure whether grey or red !!
Seeing as this section does the most spraying any 'correct' reccomendation ?

Generally reds are poor coverer's, ( take a lot of coats to fully cover primer )
So if you can put on a red primer, (or dark grey) it will help.

Paintman.

 

[redsoul]

There is a post by pastyman that covers this i think..http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235173

 

[Kenny]

My side panels will be better than pastymans ( besides he has insider knowledge )

Thanks paintman...off up to motor factors in a mo for red primer

 

[(RIP) pastyman]

Kenny, Cheeky twat. Im not sure if the marakesh red is a metalic colour or not. If it is it needs a primer, then a metalic base before spraying the colour. If its just a plain red I think it will just go over a base primer. I would guess bm used grey primer though.
Incidentally Ive just bolloxed my side panel. Did a pretty reasonable job on it I thought but then put the gold pinstripes on. made a reasonable job of them too and was a happy bunny, then I decided to laquer over the pinstripes, big mistake. I had used a humbrol enamel and the laquer just lifted the lot so its back to the drawing board. dont know if I will have to do the whole thing again .... we will see..

 

[Bill-H]

Kenny, Cheeky twat. Im not sure if the marakesh red is a metalic colour or not. If it is it needs a primer, then a metalic base before spraying the colour. If its just a plain red I think it will just go over a base primer. I would guess bm used grey primer though.
Incidentally Ive just bolloxed my side panel. Did a pretty reasonable job on it I thought but then put the gold pinstripes on. made a reasonable job of them too and was a happy bunny, then I decided to laquer over the pinstripes, big mistake. I had used a humbrol enamel and the laquer just lifted the lot so its back to the drawing board. dont know if I will have to do the whole thing again .... we will see..

just send it up to Kenny, I hear he does a fantastic job with the sprayer

 

[Kenny]

Hey you two..stop picking on little old innocent me !!

Three brief pics ( how sad eh?)

Rubbed down blue panels; red oxide ( still wet ); starting to cover in Marrakesh red...then hopefully applying laquer tomorrow...jobs a good un

 

[Elvisto]

Looking good !

Kenny, would you mind taking a pic of your R 100 front screen please, I need to get the blue decal made ,and need to get some idea of size etc,

they are no longer available from BMW , I've just had two tank decals made, they charged me £30-00 which I thought was very reasonable, they were £14-72 from BMW but they only had the left one

Thanks a lot

Graham

 

[Kenny]

here ya go Graham

 

[Elvisto]

Thanks Kenny, That's brilliant

 

[Kenny]

No problem

... and the side panels are finished for my 1100

 

[(RIP) pastyman]

Nice job Kenny, Looks like you got a good shine on the newspaper as well.

Actually It just shows that it is worth having a go at.