momo608

I'd like to hear more about clear coating soot!? Maybe I should just try it and find out.

Here is a nice thread I put together on painting road bikes. The idea was for a complete instructional on how to do a pro job start to finish for the beginner at a reasonable cost. Nothing else out there this comprehensive that I could find.

How To Schwinn Lightweight Show Quality Paint Job Start To Finish | The Classic and Antique Bicycle Exchange

echo victor 

I don't have a lot of examples of great or unique vintage paintwork, because most of my bikes are pretty standard. But here's something you all might like - the vintage(-ish) Land Shark I found. As far as I've heard, all of John Slawta's Land Sharks have different paint schemes, and I quite like this one for its subtlety. But that also makes it difficult to really capture in a still image, so here's a few to try to convey the sense of it (I can post a link to the Flickr album if you want to see these larger):







And here's one with the exposure ramped up a bit to pull in more of the color:

echo victor 

And my other submission for interesting vintage paint is my 1970s James Pickering. The overall paint job is a very simple single color executed well. But the interesting part is that on the down tube instead of decals, Pickering painted his name - essentially autographing the bike. You can confirm this by comparing the two sides. I haven't seen anything quite like that before.

Drive side:


Non-drive side:

OTS 

A Tommy

old_dreams

Original Paint & Box Lining.

Munny

I should take another picture on the candle smoke effect


Another time...

My last project.
For me worth all paint effects

echo victor 

Well, there I go - another frame having a down tube with a hand painted, signature-like logo. Very nice.

Big Block

the big picture

and the detail. All the linework (box-lining, scrolls and feathers were handpainted)

Kevindale

Ah, my favorite Tommasini paint - metallic red fishnet. Exuberant yet subtle. If I ever repaint my faded metallic red Tommasini Racing, it will be hard to resist going with this paint scheme.

Kilroy1988 

The Malvern Star is magnificent. The Australians really knew how to add flourishes back in the day! Mind if I inquire about its neighbor in the first photo? 'Tis a look I enjoy...

LECHERO531

These three frames are mine. Some where here there is a thread Titan of Switzerland, that's what these are. They used to have some of the nicest "factory" paintwork out. Unknown and underappreciated, but those who knew bought them all. Tube were Columbus, they ran the whole range. Purple is Thron, White marble as they called it was SLX, Multi colored is Thron.