THE TANK OF DOOOM!!!

This is not, in fact, The egg part two as I promised because in between then and now I have managed to end up in physical therapy. Thus I defaulted to my ongoing project which was my website and getting advertising so that I can bring my evil creations to the masses (insert evil laugh here!)

This brings me to the topic of turning my bike (Cbr 954) into my own two wheeled advertising whore. This is what he/she/whatever looked like when I bought it.

After a really nasty wreck about a year ago it ended up with about $4000.00 in damage to the fairings (the plastic stuff for those of you that don't ride) and a hefty E.R. bill for me because I wasn't wearing a lid. I know I know I am an idiot shut up! This was what it looked like when it returned to the shop.

Anyway after re-habbing and avoiding it for two months I finally decided to resurrect N.I.M.H (Yes I named it and it stands for the National Institute for Mental Health which is where I should be because I have done 185 M.P.H on it........allegedly. ) Resurrecting meant painting it because I only had enough cash to repair the major working and not the facia. So three tube of Epoxy and A LOT of Bond-o later I decided to paint it my style which meant......blood-stained and black....LIKE MY SOUL AHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Which promptly made it look like this.

This made me so happy and was incredibly easy to paint. Fabricator point of order.....buy sherwin williams automotive. They have come out with some amazing low V.O.C stuff for automotive paint and it is amazing. I bought PPG originally and the black base coat cost me 80 bucks. It promptly cracked and ran like a scalded ape all over the fairings. I bought the S&W stuff and it cost me 6o for red, white, black, and blue. It went on and I still have some left over.

Currently I decided to put my Dark Productions Logo on the bike so that people will know who did it so what better place to put it than.......THE TANK!!! Thus I primed it.

Once I primed with standard rattle can primer from Lowes. I automotived it to a sexy black. WARNING: Automotive paint is some really nasty stuff so if you decide to use the stuff please please please wear a respirator! This is how the black turned out.

From there I had to design the logo for Dark Productions and send it off to Fastsigns to get it printed in vinyl.

For those of you who are thinking about starting your own business let me tell you there is no better feeling; other than making money, than seeing your logo printed in large scale on some sexy vinyl. I went ahead and had them apply it because I am a lot of things, a vinyl guy I am not.

From this point on it became butt-puckering kind of difficult because I had to put the blood spatter on. So I got an eye dropper and filled it with red automotive and got to work. This was what turned out. I went with arterial spray because it tends to be more fatal. =D

That's pretty much all of it. It is being clear-coated as we speak and it will be on the bike as soon as I can manage to get it done. Hopefully next week will be the Egg part two.