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Moto Board => General Monster Forum => Topic started by: nkryptit on August 12, 2008, 10:44:59 AM

Title: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: nkryptit on August 12, 2008, 10:44:59 AM
So I've just ordered a new tank for my 98 Honda Shadow ACE, which is a little clean-up project of mine at the moment.  This is just a simple suggestion thread.

If you had a cruiser to paint, what would you do?

+100 points for pics

Also...Remove the front fender?
Stock Pic:
(http://www.motorcyclemart.com/exhausts/cobra/honda/hiboyshotgun.jpg)
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: Grampa on August 12, 2008, 10:46:45 AM
all flat black
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: ODrides on August 12, 2008, 10:55:01 AM
Rainbow stripes to go with my black leather chaps.
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: nkryptit on August 12, 2008, 10:55:48 AM
Quote from: bobspapa on August 12, 2008, 10:46:45 AM
all flat black

WINNER!!!!  That was my first choice.  To match the Monster.
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: kopfjäger on August 12, 2008, 02:37:11 PM
Quote from: bobspapa on August 12, 2008, 10:46:45 AM
all flat black

meh... ;D
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: NAKID on August 12, 2008, 04:05:32 PM
Quote from: kopfjager on August 12, 2008, 02:37:11 PM
meh... ;D

Yeah, I hear people that go that route are overcompensating. But it's just a rumor......right?
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: ducpainter on August 12, 2008, 05:00:56 PM
You guys and your darks..... [roll]








































;D
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: triangleforge on August 12, 2008, 05:21:47 PM
I'd find a good airbrush artist, pick a general color scheme & theme and let him/her go wild.
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: nkryptit on August 13, 2008, 11:53:06 AM
Just found this while wondering the web....thought it was rad...

http://www.bikernet.com/bikebarn/PageViewer.asp?PageID=254 (http://www.bikernet.com/bikebarn/PageViewer.asp?PageID=254)

and with all that leather ON the bike, I bet you he doesn't wear any when he rides...  Oh well...
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: nkryptit on August 13, 2008, 12:28:58 PM
(http://www.kawasaki.com/ImagesMain/Products/Action/210_VN1600B7FA_40078_R.scale.jpg)

I saw one of these at the dealership the other day... I dig the black/red.  Not the flames so much, but Matte Black with some red accent.  How hard is it to get the engine black?
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: ducrider45 on August 13, 2008, 12:52:09 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on August 12, 2008, 05:00:56 PM
You guys and your darks..... [roll]

Whats wrong with our darks?  [evil]






































;D
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: akmnstr on August 13, 2008, 01:03:28 PM
Purple is the color for cruisers!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/780monster/magna%20ad/magnaad8.jpg)

My 88 super magna.  Sold but not forgotten.
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: ducpainter on August 13, 2008, 04:44:52 PM
Quote from: ducrider45 on August 13, 2008, 12:52:09 PM

They don't glisten...
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: Popeye the Sailor on August 13, 2008, 04:50:27 PM
Quote from: nkryptit on August 13, 2008, 12:28:58 PM
How hard is it to get the engine black?

Just give it to me for ten minutes.  ;)
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: c_rex on August 13, 2008, 09:18:29 PM
I'm not wild about the dark idea on a bike that big.  You'd look like a moving black hole.  Candy apple red with silver accents, says I.  Maybe ... MAYBE ... some flames ghosted in but they're so cliche now that they'd have to be super subtle and not some opaque, yellow or neon colored "tatoo" type flames.  Less is more.  Right Nate?   ;D
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: MendoDave on August 14, 2008, 10:00:51 AM
Quote from: kopfjager on August 12, 2008, 02:37:11 PM
meh... ;D

That was my feeling too but.
Quote from: nkryptit on August 13, 2008, 12:28:58 PM
(http://www.kawasaki.com/ImagesMain/Products/Action/210_VN1600B7FA_40078_R.scale.jpg)

Matte Black with some red accent.  How hard is it to get the engine black?

This looks good.
Title: Re: Honda Shadow Paint Job
Post by: kopfjäger on August 14, 2008, 10:59:29 AM
I was goofin, look at my avatar.  ;D