The VALOR bike is so much more than just another paint job. Mike has put hours and hours of thought and research into the backgrounds of each and every soldier who is portrayed on the bike. Because this has been such a meaningful project, we did quite a bit of filming to capture the emotion and meaning behind each mural.
I will update this thread with each new clip as they are edited
On the bench right now, Mike is working on a VERY SPECIAL project for Marc Fantich, a client from Texas. The HD Bagger is being transformed into an American tribute to Medal of Honor recipients.
There is a lot of research and history behind this project – and you can read much of it on our forums at LearnAirbrush.com -
This project was just recently finished for a local painter. The project was a complete custom, including the frame, but we seem to missing some pictures, LOL! Since Mike only did the artwork, we do not have cleared images yet. But, we have been promised a batch of shiny photos once it has been cleared and buffed. Check it out:
Mike works closely with one of our local Harley Davidson Dealers: Sun Harley Davidson of Thornton. This is a quick project he did for them yesterday – artwork only.
Tank murals for Sun Harley Davidson
Mike is on location the next few days working with Clint and the guys in the HD custom paint shop to finish up a full custom bagger. More on that his weekend!
We just got Nick’s bagger boxed up and shipped, another Super Secret Charvel project is off to Corona and several other small projects have been completed and picked up. Time for the next round of work! Ha. Up now we have yet another bagger – a 2 tone with tribal graphics – an old school chopper, a Gold Wing in for a Pin Stripe job and Mike’s Mortal Sin Guitar ready for paint. Unfortunately we also have Pete LeClaire’s bike back in for repairs after an unfortunate incident during it’s recent photo shoot for Hot Bike magazine.
Bagger in for 2 tone tribal graphics
Bob’s Gold Wing is in to get dressed up with some pin stripe and scroll work:
Mike finished up the artwork and striping on Nick’s bagger and it went in the clearn booth for the finishing! I will have a little video to go along with this in the next few days. Just a little fun project for me. he he he.
Here are some images from the booth. I will update this with more images after wet sanding and buffing.
Mike is currently working on another paint job for a repeat customer, Nick Geiger. Nick is the owner of the Skull Glide Two Tone Bagger built by Klockwerks that garnered quite a bit of industry attention last year.
As you can imagine, the costs to custom paint an entire bagger can be staggering, especially when the pieces that you want painted top 20-30. For this particular paint job, Nick wanted to give his Harley Factory job a real custom look, without starting a paint scheme from scratch. After establishing the budget that he wanted, Mike and Nick worked through a bunch of ideas that would be added to the new, existing paint. This allowed the budgeted dollars to go to artwork, and keep prep and paint time to a minimum.
Here is the first stage of artwork. Mike is adding fire to the black areas of the paint scheme, with skulls appearing throughout the flame licks. He will also be adding pinstriping and “MAYBE” some gold leaf. That decision will be made as the paint progresses. Some more elaborate artwork will be placed on the ferring. Stay tuned for more images!
