2 paintjobs

I completed ten paintjobs over the last year. it doesnt sound like much, but they are real hard to just crank out when you really care about the job, take your time and do the best work that you can. Here are two paintjobs that made their debut at the GNRS. Jeff Leightons 1938 Knucklehead "Violet Fantasy" and Chris Broders 1949 Chevy "Cyaneyed".

Violet Fantasy


About a year ago Jeff approached me about painting the ultimate mid-60's show chopper he was building. I gave him my input as to what he would need for that and he was down to compromise nothing. Down to completely ruin a real nice 56 straightleg with molding and metalflake.
I layed out a pattern on his tank and he made it happen in steel-the goal being that the molding would look like it was just part of the paintjob until you get up on it and see the concavity.

sometime during the course of the intense molding and metalflaking taking place i picked up a veiling gun(that i was looking for 12 years for) used it first on the triumph tank i sprayed for Shige, the big S behind all of mooneyes, and then used it to veil Jeff's entire frame tank and fender. what this gun does is spin the paint out in a spiral pattern-but it only works with modified lacquers-this is not cob-webbing.
after the veiling i fogged a purple kandy blend everywhere.
then the dished areas were sprayed in a murano pearl blend of magentas.

without really counting, Im gonna say that close to a gallon of clear went down on this job just to make everything nice, smooth and deep(plus countless hours of wetsanding)
special thanks goes out to my molding/polishing madman Gary Gastmeyer

Cyaneyed
then there is the 49 Chevy I painted for Chris Broders. It's too late tonite to talk about this now(seeing as how it became much more than just a paintjob) so dig these pictures and I'll make another post later all about the paint, the car, the client, the details, Larry Watson, Mox Miller, Dennis Rickleffs and the great job done by Circle City Hot Rods in building the car.

I grabbed these pix from Eric at Los Boulevardos from a link off the hamb. these guys really dig the custom cars built during the late 60's and it shows.

http://losboulevardos.blogspot.com/

FMA's TOP 3 Bikes from the GNRS

So, we just got home from three days at the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show. It has always been a great car show, hit and miss on bikes ( for lack of proper promotion) but there are always some neat surprises there on two wheels.

Our Top Favorites were our good friend and FMA blogger Jeff Leighton's FULL-SHOW '38 Knucklehead with paint by our own Harpoon, but not just any paint job! Fully metallflaked and VEILED, and some Murano pearl...whoa. Poon will fill you in on the paint details i'm sure. it's a one way ticket to crazy town for sure! lots of time, planing, and work went into this REAL bike...notthing out there like it that i know of...

The dudes from SPEEDMETAL in Denver brought out a KILLER dual linkert carbed (with FMA stacks!) '47 Knuckle in a VL frame. B-A-D. the color the parts, the whole deal was pretty sweet!
Stoked to have finally met the whole crew with Dave Barker, good dudes, can't wait to see this bike and their others at Born-Free 3!

Last But not Least, straight from Atwater Village, Johnny High on Life himself's top notch out of the box generator Shovel "the Centerfold". A real hot rod Harley! Nice work babe!

THere's some other good sleds too like the three from Foundry that included 2 knuckleheads(!), Rene's gen SHovel, Joe's Knuckle, we'll post more soon plus stay tuned for full features in STreet CHopper soon..