[Closed] Powdercoat conundrum

gold,obviously....

I got mine powercoated recently, couldn't decide so got it done two tone! So it has a sparkly red half and sparkly blue half, looks ace. It works as long as the colours are quite dark.

Powdercoat the gold bits any other colour.

Cheers tomd. Didn't know they could do sparkly..... More conundrums.....

Light blue goes nice with gold. Or brown?

FWIW just had some parts powdercoated BMW Mineral Grey for a customer and it looked absolutely mint, especially when the sunlight catches it.

I need more bikes to powdercoat 🙂 thanks for the help. Honking sparkly light blue or sparkly red at the moment. Dunno. Aaaaaaaarrrrgggghhhh... This is why I never get a choice on room colours....

It's not the best photo, but here's spangly 2 tone red and blue:

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tomd, that looks fantastic. Where did you get that done and how much?

(I have an old Skool Kona that would benefit from a new paintjob)

Candy Apple Green..
Perfect with gold.

ESP in Glasgow. They charge depending on the frame (how much masking etc), but they wanted ex vat £40 for a block colour, £60 for sparkly colours or £90 for multi colour fancy stuff. Not sure how that compares to elsewhere, but they did a good job. Finish was perfect, all threads were properly masked so no prep needed after the paint job.

Blue!
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(ignore the white bits obviously)

Tomd that looks brilliant!!! Thanks for posting it up.

I had an old GT timberline back in the early 90's that was a really nice green. Got stolen 🙁 my current Chameleon is a dark blue. Your Nicolai is lovely!!!

I'm reverting now to:

Metallic high gloss green (if its possible)
Metallic duck egg blue (if its possible)
Block red (because anything red goes faster. Even with me aboard)

The guys that did mine at ESP seemed to be able to pretty much any colour, and I think to make it metallic they just chuck some metal powder in the mix. So your options above should be do-able, if you want save ££ the block red will be cheapest.

edit: typo

Blue/magenta linear fade or the green/gold linear fade from the klein attitudes in the early to mid 90s.

Green gold fade. Genius 🙂 but will it be a bit too much.....

Satin black and gold anno. JPS FTW!

Go with a gold front end with a fade to green at the rear, should blend in with your cockpit better than a linear fade.
Black/ gold always a classic combination.

A nice deep red with a glitter lacquer. That would look spot on with the gold bits.

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@waller - was this the XL one from a Sheffield seller sold recently?

If so I very nearly had a punt on it myself - was very very tempted by it...

Cheers

Danny B

Green but im biased , that nicolai looks amazing tbough

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Candy Apple Green..
Perfect with gold.

What he said or a dark metallic green like BRG but metallic
This below would look awesome with gold
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Ive got Soul 🙂 Its a good thing to have! Just turned up in the post.

Ive been looking at powdercoated frames in my ahem lunch breaks. The one above looks stunning Unovolo. Ive also seen white with a gold flake.

Too many nice colours, think its got to be metallic now.

the frame came from Scotland dannybegood. Absolutely brilliant! really chuffed at how quick it came through. I just need Chainreaction to deliver new cables and seat quick release so I can build it up for a razz around Stamner park Thursday night before breaking it down again for the respray 🙂

Thanks for all of the posts!!! really helped. Im not good with colour combination. probably how i ended up with gold stuff in the first place 🙂