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CANDY PAINT AND COVID

COVID and Candy Paint   During all this chaos of furlough, COVID-19, vaccines, and face masks, there is one thing you can be sure of (well two actually but I’ll get to that later!) that Custom Paints by Complete Café Racer have NEW CANDY PAINT!   While everybody has been tucked away in their homes […]

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CANDY MARBLE PAINT – REGAL BLUE

CANDY MARBLE PAINT – REGAL BLUE WHEELS   These wheels are for a very special project that we are building.   They were blasted and powder coated black, scotched to form a good key and a perfect base for our paint to go on!   To start with the wheels were painted with one coat […]

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CUSTOM PAINTED TANK – CANDYS AND METALLIC BLACK

CUSTOM PAINTED TANK – CANDYS AND METALLIC   An interesting job to do and a bit time consuming too! However the final result is so worth it!   We started with the base which is our medium silver flake which we then covered with our “just like glass” clear lacquer. We only put enough lacquer […]

CANDY PAINTWORK ON HONDA CD200

CANDY PAINTWORK ON HONDA CD200 IN REGAL BLUE   This is obviously a Honda CD200. It is painted in a slightly darkened course silver metallic base so that the blue can really pop through.   Following this we masked up the Honda logo, chequers and web address for the decals and applied the metallic silver […]

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CUSTOM PAINT – NICE AND SIMPLE SILVER FLAKE

CUSTOM PAINT – NICE AND SIMPLE SILVER FLAKE Though it may be simple, it is so stunning! This is our medium silver flake painted on to a tank. I do have to quickly say though, although the result is stunning our paint booth looks like the sugar plum fairy has had an all night rave […]

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CUSTOM PAINTJOB – MEDIUM SILVER METALLIC BASE

CUSTOM PAINTJOB – MEDIUM SILVER METALLIC BASE FOR DUCATI.   Again another simple and classic one, this often hits people for its understated beauty with a nice classic semi-matte silver. I personally adore it!   This custom paintjob was done on a Ducati scrambler tank and we wanted to keep it nice and simple to […]

RESTORATION PAINTWORK – TRIUMPH T100

  RESTORATION PAINTWORK – TRIUMPH T100 We do offer a restoration paintwork service where we will get your bike back to its former glory!   We fully restored the triumph in our workshop with the careful supervision of Debs (the customer) who also happens to be a good friend who also works on the same […]

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PAINTJOB – SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE

  SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE PAINTJOB This is a XS1100 paintjob that was brought in by a customer who wanted something simple, yet effective. So we decided to go down the black out route! This was painted with our black ground coat for the stunning and solid black we wanted to achieve. To finish it off […]

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MARBLED CANDY PAINTWORK

Marbled Candy Paintwork  First and foremost we and the customer completely adored this paintwork! There was quite a few processes involved however to get it to its current state. To start with, everything was painted in our fine pewter pearl to provide a solid base. Before doing this we had masked off the side of […]

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CLASSIC PAINTWORK – VMAX ANNIVERSARY PAINT

  CLASSIC PAINTWORK – VMAX ANNIVERSARY PAINTWORK   The customer gave us a very specific brief for this bike. To replicate the VMAX anniversary paintwork, however we were told to put our own spin on it to really make it stand out of the crowd.   So we came up with the distinctive Yamaha speed […]