DIY Colour Fade Paint Job
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2019
- Find out how I got on painting my own track bike at home using spray paint/rattle cans. I figure out the best way to get a three way colour fade, make stencils, mask off areas and get a soft, smooth, glossy finish.
Here's the paint I used: spray.bike
I was sent it for free (in the interest of transparency!) but I'm just using it because it's awesome and I love it!
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Can't remember if I mention this (forgive me, I'm pretty ill!) I did clear coat the frame after I peeled off the tape and before I showed the finished result. I just didn't film it
I actually thought about why you were whispering.
Question.....How many cans did you use???
You could use the pink paint with a small paintbrush/eyeshadow brush and fill in dinosaurs. You could use a small plastic cup and spray in some pink paint and brush it on
Proper mask instead!!!
Love the dinos, frame looks great.
Ah brilliant. It’s great and I like how you mixed things up as you went along. Chapeau to you both!
Fantastic effort, great result and I love the joy you put into these videos.
Thanks Alexandra
Juliet, Dave! I'm loving this, when i get back from my tenerife week riding I'm totally respraying my bike!
Juliet,
You are definitely fun to watch! I made my own decals by purchasing decal paper online then designing the decals on my computer and printing them out. After printing I clear coated them with the same paint as I would use on the bike. Then it was just a matter of transferring them to the bike, clear coating the whole thing and done! That is easier than stenciling I would think. You have a great sense of humor and are pretty quick to boot! Way to go.
That turned out nice,Julie! Glad you went with the fade. I'd keep the dinos as an homage to your daughter.
Perfect timing! Been looking at this paint and can see it's decent stuff and covers really well. Like you I haven't done a bike before but seeing you do it gives me the confidence to go ahead and give it a try. I'm not doing bright colors though, probably matt and gloss black :)
Well done Juliet You done a great job👍 hope we see you ride it. Thanks for the link for the spray paint. I’ve got a frame that I need to spray I will have a go. All The Best Juliet keep up the great work xx
OH MY GOD. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AROUND TH-cam FOR SOOOO LONG FOR THIS TYPE OF TUTORIAL. THANK YOU KIND MADAM.
Look great! Love the colors.
Very good tutorial, thanks for sharing. It really help me out with my project.
The frame looks awesome!
I came on here as i am thinking of re spraying a bike and after watching your video, I am inspired to do it ASAP ...you did a fantastic job!! Thanks for uploading this video and the link for the spray paint too! Have a great day!
Wow, you did a great job that's a beautiful paint.
I think you did an awesome job for a first attempt at spraying a bike. I love the purple and green together and the fade idea looks really cool.
Also have to add that I love your content over any others cuz you're so personal/personable. Dirty counters???? And not asahmed.... Brave and lovely... Thx for being real!
Lovely paint job!
Wow! Love that track frame. Wish i can afford that too, its too much expensive here in my country 😂. I have a steel fixie/track bike, im gonna repaint it and your video is so usefull to me.
Excellent! I adore the dinosaurs. The 3 color fades really came out nice too. Great video.
Cute frame. Now I will have some motivation to do my bike's frame as well.
Love the paint job reminds me of the Klein Mountain bike frames I think back in the 80's or 90's one of my favorite bike but they went the way dodo bird the prehistoric dinosaur on your fork...... cant wait to see it built back up and ready to roll
Best “ASMR” video ever !
The Jurassic fork is my favorite part of the paintjob
That is what I call quality time
I am not being sarcastic!
Fantastic job I'd love that frame
Nice job Juliet. Im trying to learn painting also. Great colors on your frame. I really like your joyful enthusiasm while you work. Very fun to watch .Cheers :)
nice to see. just bought the paint and was wandering how it worked. thank you!
No problem 👍
This is awesome! Got a track frame that is asking for a respray!
stellar. well done
Yaaaas. Looks amazing. Jurassic Fork is cute AF. I bet your daughter loves it. 🦕🦖 brilliant first effort. You should be really proud of that.
Loved it Sooo much... I am a bike mechanic and a framebuilder... Planning to execute your theam on my next project....
Looks so great!
Nice work. The frame turned out really nice. I do like the dinos. They are unique. This frame will stand out in a crowd. Better than having the same thing as everyone else.
Cool, got to try this.
Owwww my g.i will make my own but your steps are my insight and i will choose my own color hehe thankyou for sharing this kind of video
-from philipines
It looks amazing and I love the dinosaurs!!!
Looks good for your first time painting a frame.
Juliet that was fun to watch. I loved your plan JUST GO FOR IT . At least I’ll have a full size garage to work in
And I need to make a broomstick stand . Hope you are well again cheers ivor
Cheers Ivor, hope it goes well
FWIW - I spray painted a good frame thinking that it would be non-descript and I could lock it anywhere with no worries. Got loads of compliments from strangers & loved the bike to death (the frame's; not mine). Wait till it's built up and you've had it out in the world. You may love it. And awesome job painting and sharing!
Hi Juliet, i was just wondering what the longevity of the paint has been like since you lacquered the frame? Does it last well.
It's a good job, bikes are whatever you want them to be, bet your daughter loves it and that's priceless 👍
OMG 😍 love your content, as usual. The fade is sick, the dinos are the best - I might have gone with pink dinos too, since it's my fav. As others have said, the dinos will always be a sweet memory with your daughter. Can't wait to see it with matching wheels and bar tape.... Oohlala....
Crackin' first attempt!
Amazing. i want to do a black finish on mine and this process would be so cost effective. great touch with the dinosaurs.
Eheheee... great skill!!! Looking suuper cool!!! Congrats!!!
I think the fade is great. Considering this is the first time you've tried painting a frame, it's awesome.
Nice job all around!
Love the frame! I love the sudden line between the green and pink with the fade between the purple and green. I find that going from cool to warm/highlight colors is best done via a smash cut.
The forks I'm kinda eh about. Your right in that a pink base would work. I'd ask your daughter if she likes it. Since she's the inspiration.
Hope y'all have been well!
Awesome! pop on some clear coat and maybe a little bit of the hot pink on the bottom of the fork? (like a small pinstripe up from the axel?)
Hi, looks like an awesome job.. What did you use for clear coat and also has it prevented any chips? Or would you recommend using some heli tape? Cheers
I think it looks great! Digging the dinos.
GREAT JOB GURL!
Nice bikeosaur 🦖!
Hehe.. niceley done, these projects can bi realy funn and sometimes furstrating, but mostly funn. I also striped paint off my cx bike. I made raw aluminium look with clear coat so i had to use a paint remover, and the clearcoat was applied in the paintshop at galvanization factory, so its a durable coating that sticks realy good on difficult surface such as brushed aluminium.
Hope you feel better. The frame looks way better then the pic you posted on instagram. I actually love it! Good morning!
cutest video ever! I loved all about it! you painting dinosaurs for your daughter, your hubby helping out and being supportive, your honesty! I loved how the cream colour looked like. I think I'm going to paint mine just that colour. Maybe you didn't like the dinosaurs because of the contrast but perhaps if you aim from far away you might smooth the edges. Anyways this was like two years ago so. Subscribed!
You can color in the dinasors. Then clear coat it.
If you stick the stickers to your shirt or like a towel first it will allow them to release much easier without pulling the base layer of paint off
THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!!!
Great job
Thank you for trying out my idea. 😄😄
Looks fine, good job.
Hello,
I tryed to paint my bike frame as well but the paint sucked und got cracks and stuff. I want to undo the process with sandpaper and then I would like to paint it again. What paint did you use and does it holds good? Your color mixture looks great. 👍👍
I would love to hear from you.
Joris
Looks good
Nice! Are you going to use any of their kerin flake topcoat. You seem like you'd like a little glitter on there!!
Love the Paint job. Keep the dinos.
That came out pretty cool! I've spray painted a few motorcycles over the years, so I know how finicky it can be. Are you planning to build the frame up soon? I've been toying with idea of painting an old frame as well, so I'd love to know how the paint holds up.
A+!love it
Nice retro design and colours. bit 90's like :)
I think the dino's are a nice personal touch.
For a gloss finish you really need a coat of clear.
Looks awsome 👍
it looks pretty good ! :)
Very nice!
I love this - im gona spray my sons bike x
Awesome paint job haha.
my god I love your bike 😍😍😍
Well done! Love the Dinosaur
Frame looks good - agree the dinosaurs would look better in pink or a different accent colour. Nice job!👍🏼🔥🔥🔥🚴🏻♀️
that came out super hot. what about putting on a glossy clear coat on it?
Im curious if its possible to do a paint fade using plastidip(pealable paint). I have a 2K€ MTB on which Id like to do a black to blue fade using black plastidip. But not sure if I can do the fading.
Love the hard edge to the paint line. I think the answer is no, but did the hair dryer soften the paint as well? Im going to attempt something similar but almost a reverse of your dino idea where a decal will be used to cover fork and then cutting out areas to paint. if that makes sense. :) Great job!
The results look brilliant if you as me. I may order some of that paint to restore an old bike I've been restoring. :)
I would totally take that bike for a rip. Good job, subscribed immediately lol. Cheers 🍻
I'd liked the dinos in red, one the white forks. Looks like a polka-dot jersey! Extremly cool!
Good design!
Looks funky and the line is a nice contrast from the fade - I have to say I smiled a bit when you got the cling film out to protect the pink as I'd mentioned that it's a handy thing to use for jobs like that when we were chatting through Instagram so nice to see it worked nicely for you 👍🏻 looks awesome and you could always draw the outlines of the dinosaurs on in liquid eyeliner or nail pens afterwards and then use a very basic and cheap nail varnish remover/makeup remover to take the lines off if you made a mistake or if not then just clear coat over the top to set them in 100%. Looks good :P
Looks good! Deffo keep the dinosaurs. Your daughter will love you for it 👍
i like the taped hard contrast at the bottom more than the fade :)
The bike looks awesome and so do the Dinos and the eggs!
I'm digging it.
Looks great! Where did you get your dinosaur stickers from?
Cool , what paints did you use. And dinosaurs are awesome
Go with some white bar tape and a white saddle to pick out the dinos, it'll look smashing.
I just heard about this paint. I have an origin 8 steel frame that is boring grey. I think I'm going to strip it down and do a celeste with pink unicorns because my daughter loves them... mostly because I do 🦄. Nice dinos.
That is a KILLER paint job- what's the purple paint?
Juliet, check out the Satin Oil paint job of the top-tier Specialized Diverge 2018 model. Or Trek's Project One paint jobs, such as the Gloss Purple, the Purple Flip, the Candy Emerald, or the Refliptive. Or the Genesis Datum Women's 2017 Purple. Or the purple of the Scott Foil (Model : 274713), the glossy gradient purple of the Garneau A1 2017. Or the Norco Search XR Ultegra 2018 model, but with its beautiful pastel blue transitioning to a somewhat more vivid, matching colour in the rear; idem with the Rival version, but with either a lighter or a darker green in the rear end. Sublime! All worthy successors to Klein's paint job excellence.
I must say, you did a remarkably good job of spray painting the bike without professional knowhow and equipment. What strikes Me more - is the choice of your colours. I like your taste!
Oh, and a compliment on your delightful eyes. I hope, your husband is endowed with matching good genes: it's very painful seeing truly beautiful women (more like, bimbos), such as Doutzen Kroes - defile their flesh and ruin their genes by a thoroughly and insufferably poor choice of bedmates: www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3798072/Doutzen-Kroes-step-style-Clinton-Global-Citizen-Awards.html (excuse the nauseating nature of the snapshot).
Do you find that the quality of the paint and the way it cures matches that of or close to a factory paint job? How would you compare the integrity of the factory finish to the “spray bike” product?
It's really cool and I think you should keep the dinosaurs. I find the mix of fade and hard colour transition a little jarring, but what do I know! The colours are great.
Velociraptors😀 velo but apt for bikes. Looks a good choice of colours just some gloss to keep it looking nice.
thought of something to add a few days ago but have been out of touch in the woods since. the 2nd bike I painted was a fade that started with your two exact starting colors. my third color was a yellow/orange at the extremities. i'm not a fan of the cream base layer, and have a suggestion if that color still bothers you. have your daughter practice coloring in dinos until you both feel comfortable enough for her to do it, and without worrying too much about staying inside the lines, or messiness, etc. in fact, the more expressive the better. the bike would have more meaning for the both of you, and when she gets old enough to ride, she can have Mom's bike!
Nice work for your first time out. And I loved the dinosaur idea. I think it could work.
May I suggest a couple of pro tips? 1) Hang your frame from the ceiling of your shed using thin wires. Screw several small hooks into the roof beams of your shed to provide a variety of attachment points. 2) Spray the inside corners of the frame first before moving on to spray the more accessible outside surfaces of the frame.
Well you did good actually. The dinosaurs are simple and so is the fade and it all kind of works. I really like that shade of purple, at least how it looks on my monitor. Was the white base coat a primer or just regular paint? Because if it's a primer then it should help the other coats stick. Your obviously artistic because even with doing everything unprofessionally it came out looking good. Now for the finishing clear coat, clear gloss pearl or mat finish?