FAO FirestormMike

[sirch345]

Mike, I think you said you painted your tail/seat plastic's on your Firetsorm using Halfords rattle can spray paint (as below). Did you need to lacquer the paint once you'd painted it

Cheers,

Chris.

[sirch345]

That was quick

Thanks for the info and paint link Mike
I thought your seat plastics looked pretty good in the pic, so I was wondering if you had lacquered it for future reference IE. if I see a hugger or belly pan for sale and I need to re-paint it I'd know what to do.

Cheers,

Chris.

[Beamish]

Use RS paints for a perfect colour match, I would recommend them but they are pricey. http://motorbikepaint.co.uk/

[RedStormV]

At Rufforth last Saturday caught this guy and his lady:

http://www.bikecolours.com/

Touch up kit for Red Storm was £10 - for that you get 3 X 20ml bottles, one of ground coat, one of top coat and one of clear coat (laquer). Oh and a set of instructions.

I thought that was pretty reasonable considering the cost of 1/2 litre of colour matched single coat stuff.

Haven't seen him there before, but at least he has website. Seems to cover the whole spectrum (get it )

[warby221]

I’ve used these chaps in the past
colour match was pretty good, fast delivery and not a bad price luckily I’ve found a paint suppler locally that’s sh*t hot at matching so now use them as I prefer the 2k system
http://www.paints4u.com/

[sirch345]

Thanks guys to all of you for your input, very much appreciated

I'll make a note of those links

Cheers,

Chris.

[Stratman]

Spray it Yellow. You know it makes sense

[sirch345]

Spray it Yellow. You know it makes sense

[Jim67]

Spray it Yellow. You know it makes sense

Because no-one would steal it.

Yeah because only monkies steal bannanas!!!

Jim.

[tony.mon]

Just finished re-spraying a side panel using the Halfords Y124 shining Pearl Yellow.

Colour match is good, (took two full cans though) and I then lacqured with spray can standard stuff.

The finish is different, maybe I should have flatted it between each coat?

It's not exactly dimpled, but you can see that the original is gloss and my effort seems more of a vinyl finish.

Mind you, never bothered to spray anything before, so maybe I should have left it to the experts.

It'll do for now.

Also my first time of trying to repair cracked plastic using an old soldering iron- that seems more successful, but in hindsight I should have used a bit of body filler and smoothed it before spraying the colour on.

Looks alright from a distance, under the cover, in the dark, if you squint.

baldrocks!

[sirch345]

Tony, the earlier Yellow is one of the most difficult colours on the Firestorms to match, so if you got a good result that's excellent

To get a good finish (shine) on the lacquer, once you've given it time to harden off, you'll need to buff it up, either with polish, T cut or a cutting compound, or all three. Be very careful though on non flat surfaces not to rub through to the paint,

Chris.

[tony.mon]

Thanks, Chris, will give it a go and report back for others to view.