Stiff-up your brush: paint porn

Love this: it reminds me of the "dazzle" camouflage used on WWI warships and Tamara De Lempicka's paintings.

The muted colours with flashes of brilliant orange are particularly effective and the shape of the tubes emphasise the effect.

Shame about the massive wheel decals, which rather spoil the effect.

I loved it too, it would make a Leader look amazing if you apply that colour on their frame*.

*unless it's a leader.

Following on from V&N marbled stem, this has just popped up in the classifieds.

Shame about those tyres: I can count on the thumbs of one foot, the number of times I've seen a good build with coloured tyres.

Love this thing.
Classy paint job

Most of these:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread70897.html

^ lazy

This sort of stuff...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fe/Mondrian_Composition_II_in_Red,_Blue,_and_Yellow.jpg/220px-Mondrian_Composition_II_in_Red,_Blue,_and_Yellow.jpg

Better, but I still don't feel you're really committing to the thread.

That's what I'm talking about!

Nice! Too bad PX is selling them as Cinelli Super Corsa's which they aren't. I think they're Concorde's. Gotta love Concorde paintjobs.

^ Nice! Home made fadez?

No that's from death spray custom's blog. Reckon it's probably a cellulose job, could probably get it with a rattle can. But yeah, makes me want to buy a cellulose gun and set up shop. Sick fadez all round!

Hell yeah!

Another one of those skills that I'd love to learn, but that cost a lot of money for decent gear...

I loved it too, it would make a Leader look amazing if you apply that colour on their frame*.

*unless it's a leader.

It's a FTC x Nabiis

http://www.pedalconsumption.com/2013/03/nabiis-x-ftc-a2-frameset/

Leader then.

^^ Have you seen the geometry on the nabiis x FTC frames?

Utterly stupid long top tubes and ridiculously short head tubes -

Exactly why I said Leader (even thought it isn't).

Hell yeah!

Another one of those skills that I'd love to learn, but that cost a lot of money for decent gear...

Naw, with cellulose the only difference between expensive gear and cheap gear is the amount of wetsanding required. You can apply cellulose paint with a football pump and get excellent results, so long as you put the time in.

FWIW I got a cheapo compressor and gun from Aldi for about fifty quid, and painted a car and a couple of frames (and a fridge) with it and got good results (better than factory, at least). But like I said, it needed quite a bit of flatting. I found a secondhand Devilbiss gun at a car boot sale which gives a more even spray pattern for better results.

If you want to use modern 2-pack acrylic, that's a different story - you need extraction equipment as it's nasty stuff. Not really DIY-able. Cellulose paint is difficult to find now anyway.

2 pack is probably what I was on about then. Was thinking of a place I worked, and they had extraction

^^We need Fridge Paint Porn.

nice fades...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-VITUS-971-TRACK-FRAME-/150995451344?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item232807bdd0