Last time I was relaying the loss of my airbrushing virginity and the application of blood red dye-based candy over the oh-so 1970s metal flake.
I have really enjoyed the process to date, even though I have made a handful of mistakes, but nothing that wasn’t irreversible. I had the strange idea of using both yellow and purple, opposites on the colour wheel, which I have used in the past as a graphic designer. When working in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop et al, on a computer one can change colours rapidly and see what works and what doesn’t. As I haven’t a clue how to draw in 3D with lighting effects on a PC, I really had to design the bike paint stuff in my head and hope it looked as good on a tank as it did in my mind’s eye. I knew that the yellow and purple was dangerous territory, so decided to try it out on the spare tank and tail to see how it looked in reality.
On the tank I had just used a metallic silver base, as
