First time mask painter....

[dylanh]

I was bored this weekend, so I decided to paint my Eddy Custom Kevlar in my favorite scheme of all-time. Felix Potvin. Only trouble was deciding the color combo

Since I just got brand new Vaughn 8600's leg pads, T5500 Catch and B7400 Blocker in a matching White, Black, and Silver scheme....decided to replace the "Toronto Blue" with a silver color

I already had the airbrush and compressor from my days moddeling glue-together airplanes, so it was a trip to the Automotive Paint store in search of a good Black and the perfect Silver.Looking through the books I setteled on a Honda color called "Desert Mist". Had the guy mix up a 2oz. bottle of the Silver, and one of the black, bought some urathane reducer and a can of two-part clear and headed home.

First mistake: Even though I thoroughly cleaned the mask, COMPLETELY forgot to rough up the gel-coat with some scotch-brite. Not doing this makes it a pain in the ass for the new paint to adhere to the surface of the mask.

I have a really good pic of the Potvin Mask on my laptop, so I took the polished cage and all hardware off, masked off the entire inside of the mask as well as vent holes, bought a 12'er of cheap beer, and proceeded to mask off the design.

While I was painting the mask, I dropped the cage off at a local powder coating shop to get the polished cage turned to white.

Mask in original state:


masking stage:

[dylanh]

First coat of paint-Silver:





Tape (exept eyes and cage border) removed:




Time for the black:

[dylanh]

Finished product:








Here is the pic I used as reference:



And here are the materials used:




The mask turned out alot better than expected, but clearing it was a pain. After the first coat, the unthinkable happened: Accidentally knocked the mask off the table and onto the dirty concrete floor. A couple dings, some dirt and that was about it. But it would have been perfect otherwise.

Total in parts:
2oz. bottle of Black-$10.00
2oz. bottle of Silver-$10.00
Urathane reducer-$12.00
2-part Clearcoat-$18.00

Grand total of $50 bucks.

It was very tedious, but the end result is OK.

The biggest thing I f'd up on was the eyes: white part a little too long (extending too far aft towards back-plate)

Comments and feedback appreciated

Dylan

[wroselli]

Great looking mask, but don't drink beer when painting. Probably would of prevented the mask from falling to the floor.

[no5hole]

That looks pretty darn good .. wanna do mine next? LOL!

[NJBuckethead]

Where'd you find a jock big enough to protect the enormous balls it took to paint a new mask on your first attempt? I expected to see an old, beat up, who cares if I screw it up mask.

Excellent work! I like it more than that other guy's! Wear it proud!

[Danny99]

holy WOW!!!

-Dan

[mtn50]

nasty paint job i wish i was able to do that but i would mess it up.

[baronvonnekots]

I actually have been painting my hackva, its been tedious to say the least. I managed to drop it in between color coats, while it was still wet. which basically made me start over.

I just have a couple more areas to paint and itll be done.

I was thinking about doing a potvin but would mess it up.

Great job on your job

[O'leary]

Im in the stages of painting my ITECH just wondering what kind of spray gun you used ?

[Snowy]

Very cool! Good job on it

[equipmentfreak]

Holy cow. I was expecting a sloppy looking paintjob. But that is...wow...I'm impressed

[casedawg20000]

It really does look professionally done. Hats off to you!

CT

[ahurtt]

Nice job, one of the better Potvins I've seen. It's also my favorite.

[pens4life29]

Originally Posted by dylanh

And here are the materials used:

Materials used: *Natural Light*

Ha, yeah I'd need a few of those as well before I ever decided to attempt to paint my own mask.

Joking aside, I think it came out awesome. Great job.