Helmet Painting?

[Mad Mike]

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To do it right requires the right prep materials, right primer with the right reducer, the right coating with the right reducer, fish eye preventer, the right spray gun etc. You end up with more chemicals than a refinery.

No primer for respray. A rattle can eliminates mixing. Good prep and patience can give him a body shop finish.

CTC Duplicolor is inexpensive and works as well as paintshop rattle cans (and they are 1/2 the cost.

 

[Green Meenie]

Forget painting! According to a guy who lives up the street from me, this is the latest helmet customizing trick. Him and his mix & match parts chopper rides up and down the 50 KM street at 80-100 KM, with just a straight pipe, a couple times a day. The neighbours are always very impressed!

It was comedic at first ... now, it's just really, really annoying

 

[Dirty Frank]

Forget painting! According to a guy who lives up the street from me, this is the latest helmet customizing trick. Him and his mix & match parts chopper rides up and down the 50 KM street at 80-100 KM, with just a straight pipe, a couple times a day. The neighbours are always very impressed!

It was comedic at first ... now, it's just really, really annoying
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Popular look for the one in the group that flees flashing lights.

 

[DoASkid]

Kevin Kernohan from BK Design Speedpaint did one for me and does all the CSBK guys. He's pricey but well and truly worth it:
@bkdspeedpaint on instagram.

 

[i-WERKS]

I've painted my helmet before. I used Tamiya paints made for scale models. I find their paint sprays much more fine requiring less coats. They also have a better colour selection. Painting itself isn't a big ordeal. Getting the gloss on the paint finish is where the real work is. You can't just spray clear and expect it to be smooth and glossy. You have to wet sand and polish with compound to get it looking like it was painted out of the factory.

https://imgur.com/a/VQ6td0L

 

[GreyGhost]

Yes, but you end up with a better result. If you're going to use rattle cans, go to an actual paint shop. They have better quality paint in stock colours. Next step up, have a paint shop make you up some cans. They will make up cans with custom colours with the additives mixed in. They're more money than the off the shelf ones, but better paint and the right additives mixed in = better/tougher finish.

That said, nothing beats a good quality gun and airbrush.

What is this helmet for? Looks like a dirtbike helmet but audi logos and a fin throw me off. I'd think rally/desert racing but that fin would get in the way.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

What is this helmet for? Looks like a dirtbike helmet but audi logos and a fin throw me off. I'd think rally/desert racing but that fin would get in the way.

Used the lid for everything. Woods riding, Enduro, Supermoto. It's shelf decoration now.

The Audi logo? I've had 4 of them. Would have had a manual A4 and a Golf Rallye when I did the paintjob. VAG vehicles are sort of a theme with me. The fin Is a Troy Lee Designs accessory. Big in the late 90s/early noughts. They came in chrome and didn't look right unless they were colour matched IMO.

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