Painting the inside of the cowl

This is a part of building my bikes that always gives me a headache, can someone give me some hint on how to airbrush it more easily?
Which side do you do first, the inside or the outside? Do you apply the color and clear coat, and then mask and airbrush?

Please post your tips, I am sure they will be very helpful.

Thanks.

islero

I always do it the same way for bikes,Formula 1 cars etc.Paint the outside first and clearcoat and polish it to a finish in your usual way.Then use an airbrush and spray the black of your choice (I usually use an acrylic paint for this step) onto the inside of the part you are painting.You can clean any fine overspray from the best side with a little Tamiya fine or finish compound and a clean soft cloth.This always works for me.I'm sure you may get a few different methods to try.Most times I find I don't need to mask at all if I'm pretty nifty with the airbrush and hold it at the right angles it minimises overspray virtually to a minimum.The only exception being if I need to mask for a straight line.Hope this helps.

I always do it the same way for bikes,Formula 1 cars etc.Paint the outside first and clearcoat and polish it to a finish in your usual way.Then use an airbrush and spray the black of your choice (I usually use an acrylic paint for this step) onto the inside of the part you are painting.You can clean any fine overspray from the best side with a little Tamiya fine or finish compound and a clean soft cloth.This always works for me.I'm sure you may get a few different methods to try.Most times I find I don't need to mask at all if I'm pretty nifty with the airbrush and hold it at the right angles it minimises overspray virtually to a minimum.The only exception being if I need to mask for a straight line.Hope this helps.

Thanks Steve, this I thought of trying but then I came to the Desmosedici and the tail section is quite hard to do using the method you described, it works well on side cowls and front, but if the cavity is the cowl is deep, wouldn't it be a little complicated? . Still, I will try your method and see how it works out for me.

Thanks again for the advice.

islero

You can try to use a paintbrush to paint the small sides or deep zones, and If you want , to give more realism you can use carbon fiber decal, just put the masking tape inside te cowls, take measurements of the contour with a pencil then remove the masking tape with care and paste it over the decal sheet then you can cut it with the shape of the cowl. Anyway the Carbon fiber will be Ok for cowls which you can see from the exterior the interior of the cowl , I think that with a paintbrush and matt black will look good.

Bye!
Roca

Saludos:)

This is a part of building my bikes that always gives me a headache, can someone give me some hint on how to airbrush it more easily?
Which side do you do first, the inside or the outside? Do you apply the color and clear coat, and then mask and airbrush?

Please post your tips, I am sure they will be very helpful.

Thanks.

islero

Check out www.motomodeling.com
Under How to--->94 Team Lucky Strike Suzuki, the author shows how he paints the inside of the cowl.

You can try to use a paintbrush to paint the small sides or deep zones, and If you want , to give more realism you can use carbon fiber decal, just put the masking tape inside te cowls, take measurements of the contour with a pencil then remove the masking tape with care and paste it over the decal sheet then you can cut it with the shape of the cowl. Anyway the Carbon fiber will be Ok for cowls which you can see from the exterior the interior of the cowl , I think that with a paintbrush and matt black will look good.

Bye!
Roca

Saludos:)

Thanks for the tips Roca. Carbon fiber sounds great, but I guess I will use it only on the ones where the cowl would not be attached to the bike so you can see both the engine and the inside of the cowl itself.
Paint brush is what I've been using untill now, but I am no very satisfied with the results, this is why I will try to airbrush and masking with liquid mask looks like a good idea. At least I will try using it around the edges and irregular parts of the cowl and the rest with tape.

Thank you all for the tips and I will let you know how it turns out next time i try this.

islero