Patina'd Paintwork

After much deliberation..................................................RM Yellow! But, I really wanted it to look, well, used.

 
It took bloody ages. Fill some of the dents, a Putty coat, rubbed down, a white primer coat, rubbed down, two yellow base coats, rubbed down and then slowly remove some paint in key area's. Finally, two satin clear coats, and a final rub down and polish. All with good old rattle can's, marking tape and a cheap stencil from eBay for the lettering.

The Jawa oil tank received the same treatment, with a replica decal (that still needs some aging to be applied), once again from eBay.

Crap phone photo, sorry.

It may not be to everyone's taste (and I really don't care) and, close scrutiny, well it is a bit obvious I know? But I love it.

I've pretty much finished the side panel fabrication now, mounting an alloy number board on some stand off's, which is bolted onto the air/battery box. I'm deliberating paint again now though. Plain black for the side panel, and then a yellow boarder over black for the number board is the current thought.

I've swapped the RM125 Top Yolk for the original TS item, just to get back the clock mounting holes, a roughly fabricated (just needs some shaping) a bracket for the single clock,

and, no photo's yet, but I chose against covering the seat myself - the lack of a suitable sewing machine nailed it - and have sent of the base for a pro job. Come on postie, bring it back!