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Custom Helmet Painting available by Mike Charness for your Ferrari,
Ferrari, Porsche, Viper, BMW, Alfa, Miata or other sports car or motorcycle.
Your design or Mike's. See samples and sketch sheet below.
Every helmet is given individual attention -- you'll get the quality and uniqueness you want!
Special effects colors such as metallics, metalflakes, pearlescents, iridescents, and chameleon pearls are available.
Most designs including prancing horse are between $275 and $400.
Discounts are available for multiple helmets or friends ordering together, or if you want to do your own disassembly and preparation.
Call Mike at 256-880-2277 or email him at mcharness@usa.net.
Insured shipping anywhere in North America.
Below are samples of some full face and open face designs.
Match your car and your style!
About the process: The helmet is first taken apart as much as possible, though with most helmets there's not much that will come off besides the visor and maybe some of the vent covers and sometimes rubber molding. The rest is masked as carefully as possible. The outside is sanded lightly to take off the outer glaze. It is then primered, and then the masking starts for the patterning. Of course the colors all have to be done one at a time, remasking everything else. The color coats are automotive style acrylics and/or other specialty paints, and the clearcoat is at least 4 coats of catalyzed urethane, color wet sanded by hand with 1000 grit and then 2000 grit 3M finishing sandpaper, and finally hand polished for that "you can see your reflection" final surface finish. The end results are very eye catching and "deep" looking... better in person than the photographs here. Most logos (like the prancing horse) can be painted, but if you have stickers you'd like to use, they will be applied under the clearcoat so that the final result is smooth and won't have hard edges. Or if you wish to add stickers yourself later, that's no problem with the clearcoat I use. For maintenance, you can apply any wax or polymer sealer, just like you would on your car's paint.
Turn around is generally 2 to 3 weeks inhouse, depending on how many colors are in your design, though I may be able to "rush" it if you've got a track event coming up soon. To get an idea of just some of the colors and specialty paints available for your design, click here.
New helmets are prefered, but used helmets in good condition can also be painted. I will not paint helmets that have obvious serious damage to their safety integrity, such as cracks. In any case, the integrity and safety aspects of your helmet, before and after painting, are YOUR responsibility. See your helmet manufacturer's instructions and warnings in that regard. If your used helmet has small scratches or dings, I will fill, smooth and prime them before painting, generally for a nominal $20 additional charge. However, any irregularities in your helmet's fiberglass or kevlar surface materials may show up through the paint as bumps or waves, even if they weren't very noticeable when your helmet was all white. Unlike factory-painted helmets, which are painted before assembly, most helmets can not be fully disassembled for repainting. On many helmets, only the visor assembly is removable. On others, the vent covers and/or rubber molding may also be removable. I take your helmet apart as much as possible, but you may find small irregularities around items that had to be masked. However, these will not be visible at normal viewing distance (two feet or more) and will not detract from the overall appearance of your helmet in use. Others will indeed see it as a work of art!
Below is a sketch sheet if you want to design your own via colored pencils, markers, or paint software. Click on it to open it in a separate browser page for printing.
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