This past December I was contemplating fixing my fairings and doing some custom paintwork on my bike. After consulting with a friend of mine I decided to go through with it. The original paint wasn't horrible but the previous owner had dropped it a few times and there were some scratches and cracks in the fairings. Using Plastic-Weld epoxy I filled in any gouges and prepped for paint. I also purchased some new mirrors, a Clear Alternatives integrated taillight and clear front marker lights.

The bike before



Fairings off



Fairings painted base black



After taping off the panel lines and spraying with silver





Shading in the panel lines



Painting on the rivets and weathering



Adding the P51 Stars & Bars









Tail number


Kills


Almost finished


Today we will finish the weathering, shading the rivets, clearing everything, and installing the cut down passenger footrests. Hopefully it will be on the road by Tuesday!

 

wow looks coo man! great theme!

 

im impressed

 

Here comes my passionate side....

How the **** could you destroy that beautiful relic?!

Your original paint was nearly mint... You should have bought race fairings to bastardize with that ugly crap.

Did you seriously put HARLEY DAVIDSON and SUZUKI logo's side by side on a ****ing HONDA?!

Nice work on what you were going for, but jesus... that belongs on something less beautiful.

 

+1 i agree with hersh.

to each his own i suppose.

 

I like what you have done. Who cares what others think, do what you like. Life is too short to worry about what others think. Looks good and commend your hard work.

Can you put a flying tigers emblem on there, that in my opinion will make it look complete.

 

I think it looks absolutly fantastic!!
Great job!

I love aviation, so I might be biased towards your theme :-)
The Harley and suzuki kills on the side are the icing on the cake too :-)

 

you could add some P-51 nose art onto it too :-)

http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/p51pics/noseart/

 

K heres my opinion. The bike was beautiful how it was b4. But Your theme is unique and pretty cool too. Will definitely turn some heads. I personally would not prefer ur new version to the old version, but u definitely did a great job on it. Now get out there n get more kills!

 

Hershey and G32bturbo: I understand your concern about ruining a good bike but the stock paint was far from perfect. The picture hid a lot of the flaws and there were cracks on the tail fairings, the clear was flaking off the tank, and some nice heavy scratches on the sides of the upper and lower front fairings. I had to use touch-up throughout to hide all the deep gouges from the previous owner dropping it.

To everyone else: Thanks for the compliments!

I added the word "KILLS" just above the Harley and Suzuki logos for those who wouldnt understand. I will upload more pics when I put it back together tomorrow.