Spintastic Voyage...

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Layout

I had to sleep on it to fully appreciate just how perfect this one is. Reminds me of a Crocker or a '40s air racer. Awesome. Do it!

Layouts

I started to write up some thoughts but then I decided it might be easier to just talk to you. A couple of these are really close.

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Three

I've been looking at a lot of pictures of this bike lately. If my paint ends up being even half as cool as this I can't fricken wait.

Update!!

Here are some update pics in no particular order..We are getting close.

Pinstripe

I was poking around some looking for blue striping on a similar dark blue base color. I really like this.

Photoshop

My wife put together a couple of gold samples in Photoshop for comparison against the blue (see bottom left of the rear fender). I REALLY like this blue. If you can match the color of blue pinstriping used here I think I'm done looking.

Pinstripe Color

I used Photoshop to sample the pinstripe color in the last post below and digitally compare it to other colors. If this isn't the same color it's super close.

Fender

One idea for fender paint, just posting some pictures so I can find them again later. This T100/R pattern is really typical of lots of early Triumph factory race bikes. It might look cool if the fender rib was leafed and striped. The bottom pic is a T100 similar to the last post.

Pinstriping

Pinstriping mystifies me. I'm often amazed by the combinations stripers make work. Both black or a contrasting color of gold seem like conservative choices. I'll concede I just don't have an eye for it.



John mentioned the idea of baby blue pin stripes a while back and I keep thinking about it. Triumph used a light blue from the factory on some of the early T100's.



The contrast between the light & dark blue could be pretty cool, it's a little hard for me to envision. I keep trying to imagine it based on this sample.


I've found several pictures of old race cars in similar shades of blue that have the gold leaf striped in red. I'm not convinced I'm into that but it sure looks nice on Trent's Three bike. I was just looking at several pictures of that bike again last night. The paint just rules on that bike.