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Old 06-26-2008, 09:36 PM
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Well I finally got my decals from the dealership, and here is the final product. I apologize for the picture quality. Go ahead and click the links to make the pics bigger. For those wondering, I painted them with rattle cans from the colorite website.


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Wow Tacoma! Excellent job Bike is coming along nicely.
 
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now try and get rid of the ugly silver in the sea of black and red.

good job on the lowers
 
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Old 06-29-2008, 08:58 AM
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I was thinking about blacking out some more panels. I have some semi-gloss black in the garage that os looking more and more appealing every day. I was busy spending time making the lowers as glossy as I could.
 
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Old 06-29-2008, 09:29 AM
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Looks great!
 
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hey man looks amazing i painted my exhaust heatshield and heal gaurds semi gloss and they look sweet if you wanna know how it turnsout ill post some pix for ya
 
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Old 06-29-2008, 01:29 PM
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Very nice bike [sm=smiley20.gif]

Thats not easy to do and make it look good
 
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Old 06-29-2008, 09:07 PM
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Thanks all! It took a lot of hand polishing, but still think I can get them shinier. I am afraid touse a polisher because Ithink it will melt the paint offall the edges. The things are too curvy.I would appreciate some pics of the mids and heatshields in semi-gloss black or even flat black if you guys have them. Post up!
 
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Nice job, how many coats did you do?
 
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Old 06-30-2008, 09:34 PM
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I sprayed 3 coats of red and 3 coats of clear. The paint is fast-drying like that used for automobiles, so it was easy to keep "piling" it on.
 


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