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The first winter I owned my thumper, I kept it in our garage. We had a boatload of snow that winter, and the roof collapsed, one of the support beams landed on the tail of my bike. I had looked at getting a new tail, but somethin just didnt seem right about it.
Your bike should be a reflection of you.
So i Chopped it, going off some of the DIYs on this site, and buellridersonline.com
Also wanted to really make it my own, and I had an idea in mind.
you all know the WWII planes that had the shark mouth on the nose, I had always loved that design, but i still wanted my own twist on it, while keeping the rest of the bike simple.
so, here is the transformation of my thumper (and, naturally, i doubt i am done, i have more in mind for next winter)
This is how it looked more or less when i got it, plus the damage to the tail.
some scratches on the plastic for the tank
The broken tail.
The design i wanted to use for paint. I based this off the WWII planes, but added my own twist to it.
I wanted to use the primer for the teeth, since i wanted to go for a, more or less, flat color look to it all. This stage was to put the black for the mouth on.
next i taped off what would be the red for the tongue
and then taped off the work i had done to paint the olive drab on the rest of the tank.
The finished Tank.
And then the tail chop. I cant seem to find any of the pictures i had taken while doing this, but i wanted to cut the tail so you couldnt tell it had ever been cracked, which meant cutting it right to the lip that the seat goes up to.
So far, I am very happy with how it all turned out. But of course I am still on the forums every other day looking for new unique ideas I can use.
Tell me what you guys think!
Looks good!
Dig the green, Im also a fan of green. Hence why mine is painted british racing green lol
Def cool.
I like it man thats pretty sweet!!!
That's actually a really cool paint job man!!
Rad tank. My future elbow tattoo will be the a-10 Warthog mouth
This helmet would go perfect with that theme. BTW nice paint job.
http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/b...g-tiger-helmet
That helmet is bad ass! a little pricey though....maybe ill sand the paint back down on my helmet and do something along these lines. maybe.
Jmal, Id never thought of doin somethin like this as a tattoo, id like to see how that turns out!
did you buy a chopped tail or what did you do cuz thst looks cool and how easy and costly was it to paint your plastics thst green color. i dont wsnt the mouth just the green. (ALTHOUGHT THE MOUTH IS BOSS). what color is the green?
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