Okay so yeah just spray paint, and yeah it’s not awesome, but it’s all I can do—sure looks awesome in red though.
Preparation takes a long time with painting something. This was the last stage, and it didn’t go as planed, but it went well enough. I used the bike stand to support the engine while I painted it, and a wire coat hanger to hook it on the stand. It’s nice to work with an engine that is light enough to do these sorts of things.
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These shots are out of order thanks to the order mangling that imagur inflicts, but here are a bunch of photos of the progress during the painting.
The moment the paint started hitting the engine I instantly saw the areas that I had missed with the removal of the stock paint. This was a bit of a rush job so I expected this to happen, but I really didn’t expect to me so smacked in the face by it!
I did a little clean up work, and messed up the paint a bit in some places. It needs a full 24 hours to cure so I can’t start assembling it until later tomorrow. But it’s fine I still need a few parts before I can do the fun assembly anyway, and if I remember correctly the 075 engine is harder to fit into the Second edition chassis, so I might have to assemble it in the bike.
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