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Thank you for that encouragement and I will do

Final pictures of the finished paint job and to be honest I’m not thrilled, Phil was quite right re colour match. Very pleased with the paint application so will ride it till winter as is and then repaint all of the front fairing come winter. Tail piece is great, should have its decals come Monday.

Thanks for posting David. Asked David to post this in larger format, the main side panel has been painted but the small sub panel that bolts to it is original paint and decal so again one can see the slight shade differences that are acceptable to me but perhaps not all.

Spoked rims ……now there’s an idea for a Canadian that doesn’t have enough to do!!!

A chum posted these photos for me to show greater detail, thanks David more work headed your way! Phil, you’re quite right not a prefect match but close. The left side of this small under chin piece has been painted and the right side is the original so this gives some perspective of the mismatch in colour. In this application it’s acceptable for me. I painted all of the right side of the fairing other than the top inch or so, masked it off on the body line so the mismatch is far less obvious where the two panels meet. Plan on clear coating in a Matt finish so finished phots to follow

Paint showed up and I’ve finished the repairs to right upper fairing using filler, plastic primer and high solids primer. Will paint tomorrow and post pictures of the results in a couple of days regardless of outcome,

All good points Phil, you will notice I did paint all of the tail piece. With a base/clear paint system I’ve had better results with aerosols than with my conventional equipment and methods. Suspect that’s due to my inexperience. For the front fairing repair I do have a plan to minimize the colour differences between the original and the repair. Will post a picture of the results. If they are poor will paint the whole of the front fairing but hope that will not be required. Thank you for your well thought out reply.