Wifeys SN Superjet custom paint

[Myself]

I have a full build on another forum but I can repost here if anybody wants to see it. Just finished the bottom side and here's a short vid.

Started out blue in the attached pic.

 

[Quinc]

looks good so far!

 

[Myself]

I finished the top side this weekend. I also am working on a video.....I took time lapse footage of the whole thing.

 

[Myself]

Got a box of new turf in from @Blowsion today!!

 

[Myself]

I got the pole bracket and waterbox put in last night.

 

[WFO Speedracer]

How did you do the marbling effect on the grey-silver areas ?

 

[Big Kahuna]

How did you do the marbling effect on the grey-silver areas ?

I think I saw something about using plastic wrap to help create that effect. or a sponge. like Faux Painting.....

 

[WFO Speedracer]

I think I saw something about using plastic wrap to help create that effect. or a sponge. like Faux Painting.....

Yeah I was thing Saran wrap but wasn't sure, also it depends on the kind of paint used , what I spray which is single stage polyurethane you can't do that with, it is pretty much self-leveling , I tried to put texture into a boat dash I sprayed with it one time, it smoothed right back out, no texture.

 

[Myself]

You can see my wife applying that texture in one of the time lapse vids. You want your dominant color on first and dry. Then you can thin out a bit of your texture color and pour a bit out in a pan. Use a loosely wadded bit of plastic wrap and dab the paint over the first color. Keep dabbing over until you get the coverage you want. In this case my wife still wanted a lot of the white showing through.

 

[Ace_Cobra]

Wow man! That look good

 

[Myself]

Finished the cut-n-buff on the hood today and bolted on some hardware. Closeup pic shows all the tiny metallic flakes in the black. Blow it up big and you can see greens, blues, silver, even pink!

 

[spinyard]

great job! I love watching threads like this

 

[IanG629]

badass

 

[loictahiti]

Look soooo cool , awesome job

 

[Myself]

2 steps forward today. I got the pole installed, got the steering installed, cleaned up all the bar switches, ran the cables and electrical down the pole, and installed the gas tank.

 

[Myself]

I also wrapped the chin pad with yoga mat, then my wife covered it in silver marine vinyl. Finally before we quit she glued down the tray pad. Wow, starting to look like a ski again!

 

[Myself]

Another big step today.......the engine is in. I also started working on the e-box......which was a wreck! I started with a shoddy battery cable terminal. Then moved on to the stator wiring. There was nothing wrong with it but I just hate having to flop the e-box around, scratching everything in sight, just to get it hooked up! I grabbed a couple connectors out of the boneyard and with some nice military style solder shrink connections we can just unhook it! I also had to add a connector for the start switch as somebody had cut it off??

 

[Myself]

The tray pad and turf is done.

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Looking good dude !

 

[Myself]

Thanks. My wife is doing all the turf by herself. I mounted in the electrical and sleeved some wiring this evening. I put new plug wires on the oem coil......even put the awesome little 'high voltage' doo-dads back on!