Some really good and some really bad today. Some bang your head against the wall crap, but first the success.
Parts in the sun, very happy with the silver and the flake.
Sanded the areas to be painted again back with 320 and 400 and got everything taped up.
And putting red on things. In between putting red on things did some AC work on the wife's car and my truck. Taping things for paint sucks, especially when they are curvy and round.
The seat turned out pretty nice, had some spots where the red bled past the tape so it'll have to be cleaned up a bit before clear coating. Aside from that it's turned out as well as I could hope.
There is the spot that bled through.
How about one with the tail light just shoved in there? And now to the good stuff...
The two pieces together, and if you have a big enough screen and look closely, you can see that the tank is fucked and is probably going to have to be painted again. I don't understand why but the tape etched into the silver on the tank real bad all over the damn thing. What makes no sense to me is all the paint work on the two pieces was done together no more than a couple of minutes apart and there isn't a single mark I can find on the seat. I'm happy about that obviously as I want to repaint both pieces even less than I want to repaint the one.
I wasn't thinking at the time and wish now I'd taped the back end of the seat differently as the line of the red doesn't line up properly with the shape of the cowl on the very back edge but at least right now it doesn't bother me enough to do anything about it. Tonight is just shit for now because of the tank. I'm really hoping I can hit it with some thousand grit to get it smoothed back out without cutting through the color. So just, bleh.