Recommend me a white pearl for a motorbike

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  • Andy Taylor
    August 8, 2011 at 10:50 pm #32198

    Hi all,

    A guy I work with is building himself a streetfighter style Honda Fireblade. I don’t have a picture of the actual bike, but it’s this kind of thing:

    [img]http://www.motorcyclenews.com/ImgGalleryTn/71/233371/63031_216798.jpg[/img]

    After doing him countless sprayouts in various flat, gloss, solid & pearl blacks, he’s changed his mind and wants to have the plastics white (now that I’ve already primed some of them in black! :wak )

    So I’m looking for some suggestions. Ideally an OE colour that I can mix from a regular paint scheme, rather than anything too fancy (did I mention he’s a cheapskate? :lol1 )

    One I’m fancying at the moment it Mazda 34K, Crystal White Pearl, which has an slightly off white base, with a gold & white Xirallic over the top. Pops nicely in the sun but is tending a bit towards yellow for my liking. I’m going to do a few cards, leaving out the gold pearl and maybe adding a bit of blue pearl instead, but do you guys have any ideas on a brighter, whiter alternative?

    Cheers,
    Andy.

    james caruso
    August 8, 2011 at 11:24 pm #32200

    ok for the most purest, brightest white just base everything out in pure white base, no toners then a really light coat of xirillic white pearl over and your done. keep the pearl to a minimum. i attached a pic of a bike i did like that. not that you can really see the color on a computer monitor but it gives you an idea anyway. its nice and sparkly and very pure white.

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    Andy Taylor
    August 8, 2011 at 11:44 pm #32203

    Thanks Jim.

    Like you say, I can’t really make the colour out, but I’ll certainly give that a try.

    Jayson Munro
    August 9, 2011 at 3:00 am #32204

    Try ford UG,toyota 070,065,Gm wa560Q,nice clean pearl whites with the xyrilac pearl toner and thats it.

    Simon Richards
    August 9, 2011 at 4:24 am #32207

    LOL…..Mazda 34K Crystal White Pearl!! I painted my 2011 ZX-10R in it last week (variant 1). You might want to add some matting base to the effect layer to get the pearl to be coarser. I didn’t do it, but wished I had:

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    [IMG]http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n19/simon-richards/IMG_4376.jpg[/IMG]

    Tim
    August 9, 2011 at 7:15 am #32210

    Ditto Jim

    Tim
    August 9, 2011 at 7:24 am #32212

    here is some ppg tri coat… Jim has great advice.

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    Ben Hart
    August 9, 2011 at 7:24 am #32213

    [quote=”Jayson M” post=21747]Try ford UD,toyota 070,065,Gm wa560Q,nice clean pearl whites with the xyrilac pearl toner and thats it.[/quote]

    The toyota was the first one that came to my mind. very clean and doesm’t do yellow on you. That Mazda one is decent as well

    Andy Taylor
    August 9, 2011 at 8:34 am #32214

    That looks great Paintwerks. For some reason it looks whiter than the picture Jim’s posted on my screen. Maybe it’s just the contrast against the black, as I’ve done a couple of Mazda’s in that colour lately and they were both a tiny bit yellow in the sun.

    Thanks for the suggestions guys, looks like I’ll be spraying out a few colours today :rock

    Don Wedor
    August 9, 2011 at 9:51 am #32216

    you could always leave out the gold pearl :whistle:

    Andy Taylor
    August 9, 2011 at 10:35 am #32217

    [quote=”Wydir” post=21758]you could always leave out the gold pearl :whistle:[/quote]
    Did you read the first post? 😛 :lol1

    Tried a few this morning and I’m really liking the bright white as per Jim’s suggestion. I’ll see which the guy prefers when he gets here.

    Don Wedor
    August 9, 2011 at 8:15 pm #32222

    [quote=”Andy T” post=21756]That looks great Paintwerks. For some reason it looks whiter than the picture Jim’s posted on my screen. Maybe it’s just the contrast against the black, as I’ve done a couple of Mazda’s in that colour lately and they were both a tiny bit yellow in the sun.

    Thanks for the suggestions guys, looks like I’ll be spraying out a few colours today :rock[/quote]

    :rofl Hahaha I did but by the time I got to this post I had forgotten already dang old age lol :chair

    Andy Taylor
    August 10, 2011 at 12:59 am #32230

    [quote=”Wydir” post=21764]
    :rofl Hahaha I did but by the time I got to this post I had forgotten already dang old age lol :chair[/quote]

    😆 It comes to us all in the end 😆

    Well the guy like the bright white pearl too, so at least he’s decided at last! Might be a few weeks before I get around to doing them but I’ll pop some pictures up (if they turn out ok :whistle: )

    Thanks for all the help.

    piotr
    August 10, 2011 at 2:38 am #32231

    beautiful bike paintwerks

    james caruso
    August 10, 2011 at 5:01 am #32240

    its just the pic. You really cant go by any pics. Gotta see it in person. you cant get any whiter than pure white. Anything you add to white is going to dirty it to some degree…assuming thats what you are looking for.

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