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A magic trick. Turning lemons into watermelons....
Midschoolfool:
OK so I worked on the decals for another 10 hours. I decided the smeared ants (AI caused) needed to all be replaced. One by one, and an edit under them to clean up. There were 190 of the bastuds.
There were another 90 to the right but I don't have a shot of them finished. TBH I am a bit wary about uploading the pic so some slit eyed git can make them and sell them for stupid money. They are finished, though, which was nice.
The paint has arrived at mum's. So have all of the pink parts. I am going to do one of them diarreah rama things or whatever they are called. I also found these.
So if I fancy any more water torture at some point I can zone out putting them in it.
Midschoolfool:
OK so I found another OG part. One of these.
Cost free. A little while ago I supplied some decals to a guy (art, scans of the Jane decals) on a group. I put up a wanted thread for a stem, and he had one. Wicked :LolLolLolLol: like I said, cost = free.
On the OG bike it was painted green to match the frame. That would look a bit weird in the display case, though. I wanted it neon pink but don't want the cost just for a stem. So I looked for a cheap way out. The good part is I have the white base (crucial with bright neons). I stumbled across this on Amazon.
400ml can was a fiver delivered. It's worth a go. If it is total pony I can just paint it green with the good paint. Nice thing is it will get 2k clear, so I just need a uniform coat of the pink.
If the pink is any good I will paint a conical headset spacer too.
Odyssey sold these parts in pink BTW, but not on the complete. They were parts for the "AM" model. You may note that Sunday call some of their stuff "AM". Well it means Aftermarket. IE, only sold as single parts. The decals I am using (the ones I have been working on) are only for the AM frame. The complete had a more basic decal set, with no Funday part, just "Sunday".
Mikku:
I'm not quite sure where this is going (all those bright colours are giving me a headache) but I'm curious to find out! :daumenhoch:
Midschoolfool:
I am going to build a display case out of 9mm MDF. So think rectangular wall mounted display case. Frame, plus about 10" wide (with the frame side on). So about 3ft wide. Depth about 8". Enough to fit the frame in, and have some depth to display the parts. Larger parts will go on the right side under the head tube area. It will be lined with a picnic tablecloth. I will then fit ants crawling around the parts.
So this will include.
A green painted frame with decals on. The brake posts and all of the insides of the tubes will be polished. I will then clear over all of it (including the brake posts, as it can be removed one day if it ever gets built).
The original pink brake (the Springfield). With lever.
The V2 grips in pink (the bike had pink V1 on the AM. IE Aftermarket, if you built it in parts)
The original Freeze stem, painted pink.
The original neon pink Twisted pedals.
I also found a headset conical spacer in black. I am going to paint that pink too, grab some bearings and display the headset.
As mentioned I have the original coloured rims. Only mine are Gsport, so would have had to have been made custom and put on the AM parts. I do not want to build the bike though. I want it on display in the case, with a plexiglass front on. These are UV resistant. I will also fit LED lights inside to luminate the case.
As I mentioned, you can and will not find one of these frames in the green with the decals on that has not been destroyed by UV. The pink in the decals turns white, and the frame also turns white as the dyes in the paint fade and turn transparent, showing you the white base coat.
So basically? a mint one of these will not exist unless it has never ever been used, and has been sat in the box far from the sun.
And that is why they are so rare.
Midschoolfool:
OK so finally after dealing with all of the horse poop I can get on with this.
I arrived earlier. Had a drink then got straight up into the loft. Dug the frame out and could remember why I was so god damn angry with myself for buying it.
I mean seriously look at the friggin state of it.
However, it did turn up two very good results.
Firstly there was a seat clamp on it that was not pictured in the photo of it I had. When I got into the loft I did so with a torch, as it saves me a load of messing around plugging in the lights. When I shone a light on the seat clamp I immediately got very excited. It has an original logo Sunday seat clamp on. These are impossible to find. I then noticed it had two of the letters gouged off *sigh*. I lobbed it down through the loft hatch in disgust and then came down with the frame. Once down I chopped off the chain with my Dremel as I broke a chain tool on the sodding half link crap that was on there. However, I was relieved to get it off.
Well when I picked up the seat clamp and looked at it in daylight I realised that it was not a gouge on there. It was a big blob of black paint. So I gave it a soak in some isoprop, then used a plastic scraper, and.
Amazing. I then tried to figure out exactly what the frame was. I mean, obviously it is a Sunday. That goes without question with that down tube. However, I was beyond stoked to find that not only was it indeed a Sunday, but it is actually a real Funday.
The answer laid in the "AM" part. The AM was the more affordable Sunday before they all turned into EX. I could have sworn I saw "EX" on the serial but I think I was thinking back to my old Aaron Ross EX. Why does that bother me? well, the Funday was the much earlier model. They are also very, very rare. The EX, once it got to 2012? were absolutely bloody EVERYWHERE. And they still are. The Fundays? are now extremely hard to find.
So that was awesome. Any way, onto some parcels.
So long as it does not piss down I shall start tomorrow. I don't think that purple bullshit is going to put up much of a fight tbh.
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