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By L-G Mehtola
Tech notes: Paint: House of Kolor, Sikkens and Standox .
Airbrush in use: Vega 2000, Iwata HP-C.
My tools! (Picture of a home made
airbrush stand)
Step 1. Remove all stickers and vents
and mask off all details that cannot be
removed. Clean the helmet; sand it with
800 sand paper to prepare it for the
graphics we will be adding. For a base
coat I will be using base white, to add
some great base effects I put several
layers of White Pearl (Sikkens) over the
base coat white. The design I will lay out
using 3M fine line tape.
Step 2. The design is laid out and we
start to mask off those areas of the helmet where we do not want to get paint
at this time. The design was laid out with
3M fine tape, using fine line tape makes
changing the design if necessary easy
and fast just by repositioning the tape.
Step 3.As you can see the areas we do
not want to paint on have been covered.
A folio (stencil) with the owners name is
made in a cutting machine (plotter).The
name folio is applied and a thin coat of
black base (Sikkens) is applied, we add
some very thin layers of silver metallic to
make a high lighted effect in the letters.
Step 4. The X acto knife is a big help
Step 5: The
to weed the letters from the folio (name
stencil) of the helmet revealing the owners name.
next area is masked off
and ready for paint. A silver metallic
(Standox) is applied with a thin layer of
darken shadow (drop shadow) is applied
along some of the edges.
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Step 6.
Again the areas we do not
want to get paint into are masked off with
masking tape
Step 7. The masking of next area com-
Step 9.The yellow to red neon area un-
Step 10.
Some drop shadows are
added to the neon red area to add to the
3D effect of our design.
Step 11. We will achieve the same
3D effect using that same drop shadow
technique on top of the helmet.
Step 13. Before applying the clear
Final step 14. The visor is mounted back on the helmet and it’s ready to
be returned to the customer.
masked, we finally get a hint of what our
design will look like.
Step 12. At this point we are almost
done, as you can see the design flows
very nicely with the shape of the helmet.
plete we are ready to add some neon red
to our design.
coat I add the stickers as per the request of the customer and use screws
to plug the vent holes during the clear
coating process. Three coats of Sikkens
clear coat will be applied; in between
coats the entire helmet will be wet
sanded to knock the surface smooth.
Lars-Göran Mehtola, born 1971, lives in Sweden with his family in
the countryside about 10 k´s north of Anderstorp (with Sweden’s
most famous racetrack “Scandinavian Raceway”).He began airbrushing in 1987. Today he works with Mehtola Motivlack part-
Step 8.A yellow neon layer is applied
to the front of the helmet on the bottom.
(See pic at step 9.) I shadow the yellow
area with red neon applying 2-3 layers of
red neon (HoK).
time, the other part I work with IT/quality. Airbrush technique and
custom painting is a real passion of mine. He specializes in custom
painting motorcycle helmets, race helmets.You can see more of
LG’s work on his web site www.motivlack.se
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