Tight Fit!

Gawd he’s taken forever and been as miserly as Scrooge – but we can’t deny that (at last) Mark’s CB750 K2 looks magical!

- Mark Haycock

Last time I was lookingat a recipe to simulate aHonda paint colour called ‘Flake Sunrise Orange’ for the Honda CB750 K2.

To make such a colour, this is what you need from the House of Kolor catalogue:

1 pint (pt) BC-02 silver base

1 ounce MF-2 mini flake

1 pint UK-8 tangerine candy

1 pint UC-01 clear coat 1

pint KU-100 hardener

2 quarts medium reducer

Note that the measures are US pints and quarts, not Imperial. My paint sprayer, Tony at Cycle Sprays, had all of what was required apart from two, and I agreed to get hold of them from HOK’s UK agents, Autopaint Solutions (Photo 1). One other thing to bear in mind: prepare to be amazed by the prices. What we see in the photo is basically a tin of silver paint (BC-02 Orion Silver) and a little plastic pot of diced-up metalised plastic sheet (MF-2 mini-flake) to make sparkles like kids might use for home-made Christmas cards. Price for both, delivered: £154. Yes, really. But that was for the right paint and metalflakes. It would take up too much space to go through the precise method here but if anyone wants to know, send a message to Q&A and I shall discuss it there.

The result was really good (Photo 2) and it does make me wonder why that colour was never available in the UK. Tony had done the stripes the proper, if not the ‘correct’, way by masking and spraying rather than using pinstriping and I could not fault the quality of the work.