This “how to “was created by the students of the Warrensburg ed in the auto body repair field, their instructor is Terry Treece.
Area Career Center located in Warrensburg Missouri. These All painting and instructions prepared by Zach, Joey, and Brit-
students are High School Juniors and Seniors and are interest-
tany.
All the sheet matal for this motorcycle has had all necessary your snakeskin pattern to look. Mask off the sections you do
bodywork completed and prepared for premier/sealer. Nason not want the design on.To achieve our snakeskin look we’ll use
Full-Seal 422-23 was applied to fenders and tank; after applica- fish netting. After masking all the areas not to be skinned we
tion we let the parts dry 5-10 minutes.After the sealer is dry stretch our fish netting over the parts evenly so the diamonds
we applied Chromabase by DuPont black base coat and allowed of the netting are visible.
that to dry 5-10 minutes. Have a layout of how you would like
After covering our parts with fish netting we spray gray or dark After applying the white we outline the inside of them with black
silver for the skins second base. Any color can be used for the frosting toward the middle of the diamond. We repeated this
base it depends on the type of snake you are doing. Now it’s step for each section on all of our parts. After the application of
time to pull the airbrush out; Auto Air airbrush paint was used the second base color we let it dry for 10-15 minutes to imprint
for this step. First we use white pearl to outline the lager dia- our scales on the parts.
monds evenly across the parts for the sections of the scales.
After you have airbrushed all your parts let them dry 10-15 tack cloth so no dust or unwanted particles are on the surface
minutes it’s time to unmask all the parts and carefully remove and it’s time to apply a couple coats of clear. Let them dry 2-3
the fish netting. After unmasking all the parts, clean them with a hours before handling and enjoy a new wild paint job!!!!
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