spray can paint job.

Okay

all you guys are talking about custom paint with auto paint and air brushes and they are without a doubt beautiful. In my case I wanted to cover the rust and scratches on my old sissy Schwinn. The one I bought for twenty five bucks to use for bike parts. Actually it started out as a light weight electric bike, which is how it got so scratched up.

So I went to home depot and bought a spray can of Rustoleum medium blue paint. The bike as you have seen on other threads was blue when I started. I shot it in my workshop. I used an old photo backdrop cloth to mask off the engine.

When I finished it was just sooooo blue, I was really upset with myself. I backed off three feet then shaded it with some black spray paint I use when I build cameras. Well I don't build, i really just cobble them just like the bike is cobbled.

Anyway it was pretty rough looking so I bought a can of rubbing compound. The rubbing compound has really done a nice job of blending the colors and smoothing the paint out. Several more hours will be needed I'm sure, then several more with a chrome cleaner, but when I finish it will really look... just ok.... lol...

I'm thinking decals everywhere. Maybe little old lady and teenager cutouts on the gas tank like those old WWII fighter planes with the japanese flags.

looks good deacon. nice job!

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Looks barely better than the rust and scratches. I think I'm going to paper it with bumper stickers.

"If you can read this call 911"

I like the rust it give the bike character. Ill show mine sometime when I can do the picture thing easily. mines also got some of that character.
Norman

well I am going to try to rub off some of the chrome rust since I have rain and cold days coming. If I cant ride I'll compound and polish chrome. By spring it should look like a real bike. Of course I might still be breaking it in. I have managed to ride about twenty miles so far and you of all people know when I started to ride it.

Electrical tape makes for good cheap "pin" striping. It's available in a lot of colors at Home Depot.

If all else fails, shoot it with flat black and call it a "rat bike".

Or....mask off places here and there and then shoot it with black and then peel off the masking for a urban camo effect.

I was going to go with flat army olive green but the wife wasn't too thrilled with that. I would go jungle camo for the fun of it but I think she would like that even less.

Maybe she'll go with multiple hues of blue...a sorta camo?

I shot one of my bikes all olive drab and it looks awesome. Everyone used to ask me "what kinda old army bike is that?"