Topic: HONDA CB500 FOUR TANK PAINTING GUIDELINES/BLUEPRINTS

[AstralWeeks]

Hello fellow members!

This is a hard one. FUEL TANK PAINTING STRIPES/BLACK-COLOR BLUEPRINT/REFERENCE/RESOURCES for the HONDA CB500 Four 1972 :/

I have a great painter that is holding the painting of the tank from my Honda 500 Four 1972.
Until I can find any resource as guideline for the stripes layout that I can use as mask so the final result could be very close to the original

I'm aware there are decals sold on eBay, for a very expensive price. Though I decided to paint it.

I have found images that are hard to use to re-draw as they are low-res images.

Not sure if any of you share anything that could be helpful on my journey to have it done properly?

Anything helps, really!

Thanks!
Flavio

[jaytee-nz]

I have just painted my CB500 tank but I used a decal for the black and white stripe.
I have attached a picture of the decal instructions which gives the location of the decal / stripe on the tank, which might be of use to you.
It doesn't state exactly where the location points are on the tank but I assumed they match to the centre of the 4 holes that the tank badges locate in.
Hope that helps you.

[HondaMan]

I have just painted my CB500 tank but I used a decal for the black and white stripe.
I have attached a picture of the decal instructions which gives the location of the decal / stripe on the tank, which might be of use to you.
It doesn't state exactly where the location points are on the tank but I assumed they match to the centre of the 4 holes that the tank badges locate in.
Hope that helps you.

Where did you get that decal, Jaytee?

[bryanj]

Silver used to sell the decals,still does and page from uk site attached

[jaytee-nz]

Hondaman , I got mine from CB-Four in Germany http://www.cb-four.de/. Very good quality.

[MauiK3]

As I understand it, body sets from Yamiya have painted features. They must have it all documented, they do a lot of them.

[bryanj]

Didnt think Yamiya did 500 body sets

[Nurse Julie]

Didnt think Yamiya did 500 body sets

They don't Bryan, Yamiya only do 400 and 750 parts.