Stiff-up your brush: paint porn

Shimano RP9

Ha!

You asked what Cozey meant when he wrote "do empires": I suggested he meant "paint some Giro Empire".

Anyway, fantastic work!

Great work. What kind of paint do you use and how's the durability?

Yeah the perfect canvas for such a project!

What type of paints are used?
Have been thinking of doing something similar.

I took a dive with my reflective Empires and they got scratched badly. :(

the Koi RP9 is done with several layers of oil paint, those shoes are only for display.

And the other ones?

sort of high pigment acrylic lacquer, all shoes i painted were meant for display, so durability wasnt on focus. i am guessing that the acrylic lacquer will hold best, but i think that any added color will crack/come off due to the use of the shoe.

Is this thread where this should go?

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Is this thread where this should go?

No, anti is that way >>>

It's nice up close, paint has glitter finish. Owner will be racing it at World Masters next week.

Owner is the lucky swine who doesn't have to look at it while they're racing.

Undoubtedly a towering technical achievement, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

It's fucking horrible.

My own paint project using Spray.Bike & Montana Gold Chrome paint, finally complete. More images here: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13244277/

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Doktor Bobby stem work. Srs bsnz

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srsly good

anyone ever seen/used reflective paint or treatment on a frame before?

Basically wonderng if there's something that allows the frame to look normal in the day but light up at night when lights are shone on it.

http://www.volvocars.com/uk/about/humanmade/projects/lifepaint

scotchlite tape

That's what I've used on my new winter bike - strips of 7mm Scotchlite tape.

Can that be put under some sort of clearcoat so that it won't wash off?

As for scotchlite - I was hoping for something a little cleaner...

The Kaffenback 2 has reflective decals, not sure if it is paint

I'm not sure... May affect the reflectivity? I'm not an expert on such things - I'd just seen something like you were describing - be cool if you could!

I'm after a paint job is similar to this maybe slightly different colours. What is the finish called, anyone know where in the UK I can get it done?

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