Another ol' school helmet!

I enjoyed painting that Biltwell helmet so much I decided to try that style again. My good friends at Jimenez Bros. Customs had a couple of helmets layin around so I have my canvas :) This is the first of two so check back for lace and fish scales on the next one.

This helmet has three different HoK Kandies (Cobalt Blue, Organic Green and Purple) over shify blue Old School Flake. I got a little more crazy with the pinstriping on this one but I think it looks pretty good.

And now for something completely different....

A friend of mine is building a bobber style motorcycle and showed me some pictures of paint schemes. Now historically I have not been a big fan of this kind of style but I have to say, I really enjoyed doing this helmet and I will have a few more to post pictures of soon!! This is a Silver Metalflake Biltwell helmet painted with House of Kolor Organic Green and Lime Gold Kandy. The center stripe has the classic lace texture in it and with the rest of the helmet I went wild with 1/8 and 1/4 inch fineline and an airbrush. Enjoy!!


This helmet is for sale!!
Email nadalet@gmail.com or call 909.747.4540 if you are interested

Painted Yamaha Rhino plastics for sale!!!

This is a paint set I recently finished. It is for sale! Tell your friends, your family, your neighbors, anyone who has a Yamaha Rhino that does not have plastics I painted :)

This paint scheme has House of Kolor Lime TIme Green flames pinstriped in Orange 1shot over a silver base. I kicked up the silver a little by adding some cool textures in the shadows behind the flames with an airbrush.

Meet M@!

My grandparents gave me pens, pencils, markers, crayons, colored pencils and a stack of paper when I would visit them as a child. I would be entertained for hours. My grandfather gave me an airbrush when I was somewhere around the age of 12. Also around that time my dad, through some connections at work, made it possible for me to meet Troy Lee. At the time didn't really understand how great an opportunity it was to meet someone who did what I always wanted to do. I had very few questions and simply looked around the shop in awe. The one thing I do remember from that encounter was Mr. Lee handing me a pin striping brush and saying,

"Practice."

That is what I have been doing since the age of 12 is practicing. I took airbrush classes at Coast Airbrush with Craig Fraser and Noah. I study every paint job in great detail when I attend car shows. My work has been featured at SEMA 4 of the last 5 years. Now close to the age of 30, I have experience working at collision repair shops, a hot rod shop, and more than 3 years working for myself. I have painted helmets, sand rails, trucks, golf carts, Yamaha Rhinos, choppers, street bikes, guitars, golf clubs, skateboards and anything else that looks cool and goes fast.

This will be the blog you can follow to see awesome pictures of what I have painted and lots of in progress pictures of the steps needed to create some of the artwork. To start with, I am posting some really old pictures. This is where it all began.

My parents decided it was time for a new toilet seat and I remember seeing custom painted toilet seats at Coast Airbrush or in Air Brush Action magazine or at a car show or something so I saved the seat lid from its demise at the dump and painted it. The flames are House of Kolor Lime Time Green pin striped in Orange 1Shot. If memory serves me correctly the blue shadow is some leftover paint from the collision repair shop I was working at when I painted the seat lid.

The bike in this post was my first paying paint job ever! When I received the bike pieces they were bare metal. I welded closed a few un-needed holes, performed a little bodywork and then the fun part! This bike is painted black with flames to match the owners early 90's Chevy truck and pinstriped in Silver 1Shot.