Painting the Royal Enfeild cases

[DaveinHutto]

I was looking at my bike and thought" the Royal Enfeild needs to be painted red" well then browsing this forum I see I wasn't the only one. Here I was thinking I was all original and such
Well I went to the hobby store and got me some red model paint by Testor , got me a brush and went to town on it. Here is my attempt.

 

[supercub]

Oh yea nice touch!

 

[Yogi]

Nice

 

[Pinball Dave]

I'm not sure if the "model" paint will take the heat. If not, you can use brake caliper paint! I did! Really like the red. I also did my RE Fly Screen lettering.

I'm considering painting the valve cover red with the textured high temp paint at my next valve adjustment.

 

[DaveinHutto]

Thats the nice thing about forums, it allows you to mark a time when you did something and if it goes south, you can always post up when it quit. I presume you can get brake caliper paint at an auto parts store.

 

[Pinball Dave]

Thats the nice thing about forums, it allows you to mark a time when you did something and if it goes south, you can always post up when it quit. I presume you can get brake caliper paint at an auto parts store.

Yup or Amazon...even Walmart had it!
I used a spray can on the small lettering crankshaft cover on the left. Sprayed and then wiped it with some paint thinner. Didn't work so well on the clutch cover side so I sprayed it into a cup and used a tiny brush.
Almost 2500 miles and still impressed. Running stronger every mile.

 

[fog rider]

Nice!

Stuart Fillingham has a nice tutorial on painting RE cases:

 

[Pinball Dave]

Nice!

Stuart Fillingham has a nice tutorial on painting RE cases:

His YouTube channel is fantastic!

Turned me on too sooooooo many good ideas. A wealth of knowledge.