I have a quick question. How much paint did you order. I figure a pint should be more than enough to paint everything with two good coats. Any other input would be good.

 

For a full faired bike, a pint unreduced will work. When reduced 1:1, you should have enough. A few things will determine this. Whether or not your using an HVLP gun, if its basecoat/clearcoat, and if its urethane based and high solids clear. If you have a color that is close to what you will be getting, you can simply apply a base coat of that before you spray your actual color coat.

Also, to ensure good coverage, if you have plenty of clear, you could always throw down a flash coat of that before you spray anything. Spray pattern and gun pressure are keys to making it cover.

one last thing, if you are spraying over primer, a light color usually requires more paint to cover. But what i noted in the first paragraph would work.

 

i bought a pint and still have a good amount left. I painted the side fairings a different color though, but there is still enough in the can that i would say i could have painted the fairings and still had plent left over. I sprayed silver too so it takes a couple coats to get good coverage.

 

Pint should be fine. Don't forget clearcoat. Goodluck.

 

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my picture fu is weak today.
I rattle can painted mine. the plastic was scratched/cracked etc, so I could not see putting mony into it.