spray paint a bike camouflage - the ultimate guide! 

I painted my own bike with spray cans. I watched Your videos and got inspired to do it. Right from dismantling the bike piece by piece and then getting the old paint off and spraying primer and the final coat of Satin black. The bike looked super awesome. Thank you! You’re a great teacher 👍🏻❤️

That turned out a whole lot better than I thought it would when I saw you starting with all those stencils. You’re a bloody magician with a spray can or gun, respect 🙌🏼

Simply Outstanding talent. I painted my bikes as a kid growing up rattle can style always red and black with a fade turned out pretty good always happy but now I'm Dad and after watching your channel I'm going to rattle can it again for my kid's bikes. I'm going to follow your step by step Pro OCD techniques and paint recommendations. Gutted I didn't find your channel when lockdown first started. Cheers brother for sharing knowledge, you a cool man. CHEERS.

you know someone is talented when it looks easy ;) incredible, thanks !

colours look amazing next to each other! the stencils look amazing! Thanks for taking the time to create, film and share

This is stunning! So much work, but worth every second! A true artist!

Because of you I started painting my carbon Trek Domane, I'm painting it with Durakote and in the kryptek style of camouflage. I'm building it into a urban tactical commuting machine! I'm grateful that you made this video as it's given me some new ideas as to how to perfect my paint job. I just started sanding it so I have quite a bit to do still. Danke!

I'm 1 minute and 40 seconds in, and I've already subscribed. I don't know how I haven't found your channel before now, but you're incredible, and I love the fact that you're all about marine life. Thank you.

Crazy detail Martin, your a man with insane patience, awesome finish with spray cans

Always a masterpiece each time you paint bikes!

This thumbnail grabbed my eye! My brother worked on the Bob barker for about a year! Awesome paint work, and I love the client and their cause too.

Sickest paint job I've ever seen, great work!! I thought it looked so clean without any decals

What a wonderful video. Thank you so much Martin.

Those seals really sealed the deal!! Lols This may be your finest video yet, especially making a difference for marine life. I am making a contribution and buying a T-shirt now. Thanks! 💙🤍🖤

Fantastic! Thank you for this. Once again you are a great inspiration. Keep going!!!

Another brilliant vid, and great finish. Love the scheme.

I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR SUBS AREN'T IN THE MILLIONS BECAUSE YOU ARE THE BEST BIKE PAINTER ON RU-vid IF NOT THE WORLD.

Love your energy man! Great work as always!

Increadible and very inspiring! Thank you!

Love your attitude and the work that comes from it…

Much respect! So positive energy from you and great result too!

Absolutely amazing!

Great result! Well done.

Dude! You are FN AWESOME. So cool. Thank you.

Looks amazing. Really makes me want to paint my bike, even though it doesn't need it

Awesome work of Art!

Sick paint work looks outstanding mate 👌

i watched every minute of the video!! Good vibes bro !! GREAT WORK!!

that was crazy! i can feel how exhausting doing this paint job but you made it look easy while still having fun! great job!

Danke für die Superguten Videos!🥳

I'm gonna do it on my bike. It's looking outstanding.

Simply amazing.

Excelent job ! congratulations .

He’s Great! I appreciate seeing him make the ever so slight mistakes he made while adhering the decals. It lets me know that theres hope when I screw up..That might a great video,” fixing the mistakes’’…..

You coming out slapping and realizing you didn't like what you did, that cracked me up. Good fun blooper there.

Eres lo máximo bro, excelente tutorial . Saludos desde México

Da bleibt nicht viel zu sagen. Absolut großartig. Zufällig stehen die Bob Barker Farben hier schon eine Weile rum, jetzt weiß ich was ich damit tun werde 😍✌

deine Arbeit ist der Hammer. 🏆

So amazing coloration 😍!!!it’s always a dream to watch your creations (sorry, art operas 🤩)!

I love your videos, I learned a lot :)

This guy is awesome. Got me thinking of loads of mad paint jobs.. I was thinking of a water colour camo bright colours think it would look sick

I ride road bike primarily, right now I have a 2021 Specialized Allez Elite Pro and I love it. I recently decided I would like a Gravel bike but don't want to spend a ton of coin on it so I decided on a little project. I am taking an old Specialized Rock Hopper (all steel hard tail and forks) and converting it. I have almost got all the components I will need so I will start breaking it down and getting it ready for painting. After watching this video, I feel I have come away with all the information I need to do the kind of job I want to do, something that looks like it came off the factory floor looking like that. Thank you for this video, I learned a lot :) After clicking the like button, I saw it jump from 3.1K to 3.2K, Glad I am helping :)

i like the way you explain everything

Your video is very cool, you make it look so easy. I really plan to try it on my Rockhopper. greetings from Mexico.

Amazing paint work👌

Wonderful, low-cost bike. LUDICROUS SPEED!!

Great job, man ! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

i love your channel!!!

I hit the like button at the burp 🤣 great work as always 👍

Awesome tutorial and entertaining

You are awesome! Like billion times!

Als ich mein Bike gekauft habe, habe ich mir auch fest vorgenommen ein Sea Shepherd Bike daraus zu machen. Wirklich cool zu sehen dass das schonmal jemand gemacht hat. || When I bought my bike, I also firmly resolved to make a Sea Shepherd bike out of it. Really cool to see that someone has done this before.

Beautiful work!

Incredible!

this is awesome project

Would love to see these epic frames built up to full bikes 👌

And You're an artist!

They say the line between genius and madman is a very thin one .... this is evidence right here... that being said your work is amazing well done sir i really enjoyed your video n the result is amazing 👏

great work

Phantastische Arbeit! Respekt

Dude, what an amazing paint job. Thank you for showing how to paint over vinyl and removing it. I tried doing this, but I didn't have a good tool for helping remove the stickers and therefore, the corners or each sticker yucked up the pain job each time. I'll need to get me one of those vinyl knives you have.

Superrrrr awesome!

Awesome Martin, fckng awesome.

nice color !

Hello dear friend! I really admire your work. Thank you so much for the tutorial video. You are a great master!!!

omg so much stencil work

AMAZING

Nice work

What an amazing video mate, I've got a Haibike ALLMtn 6 in bamboo green in matt, I would love to have it sprayed camouflage. Loving this channel 🤘🏻🇬🇧

Rank amateur here, if you are like me you may want to read on everyone else this wouldn’t apply to you. Watched this excellent video. I just finished restoring and doing a camo on my 20 year old cruiser bike and would like to add my own experiences in doing this. While this guy is superb and does an incredible paint job all I was after was something to make it nicer then the worn out finish that was on it from the factory, which I accomplished. He used high quality primer and paints and clear coat while I used 4 rust-oleum camo colors for everything which was about half the cost or more. I used rust-oleum over krylon as my research found that it’s a better paint for outdoors that is made up of different chemical compounds. I also purchased the self adhesive sheet for stencils for some 6 bucks that he provided the link to. I used 800 grit sandpaper to rough up the original paint and then coated it with rust-oleum self etching primer for aluminum. I only camouflaged the top tube for an accent and painted the rest of the bike deep forest green. I top coated it with rust-oleum gloss. If you notice at the beginning of his paint job he paints light blue and then finishes with dark blue, the final coat with be the majority of the color of the camouflage. I sprayed with the clear coat like he did and then went to wet sand. The rust-oleum top coat did not hold up well at all to that. It came right off and and scratched up and dulled a lot of the camo so I stopped but it did smooth out the layers (lips) of paint caused by having all those stencils. So then it hit me, I took some cheap artist paint brushes I had laying around, sprayed one of the camo colors onto cardboard, dipped the brush into the paint and painted over the existing patterns. What I discovered along the way was, this is how if I were to do it again I would do the entire camouflage part of the job. Not being a sign maker I printed camo designs on my printer I found on the web, cut them out, put it over the foil traced around them, cut the foil and stuck them on the bike. Even if I just did what he did which was make random patterns with the knife it would still take quite a while. As an option I would suggest spray painting the entire bike one of the camo colors, just get a cheap artist brush and then paint camo designs with the remaining 3 colors directly onto the bike with the brush and forgo the stencils altogether. Cutting out camo designs, sticking them on there, painting, then sticking more on over and over and then having to remove them and then sanding is way more labor intensive. Painting directly onto the bike doesn’t leave the lips caused by the stencils and it’s almost impossible to goof up the paint job due to the nature of camo designs! Additionally, you can see how the camo is coming along and not take everything off like he does and find out you have to much of the last color or not enough of another. Also to note, the stencils pulled up some of the paint in about 5% of the places where I removed them and in very few of the other spots the next coat of paint leaked underneath. Not a big deal but I thought I would mention it. The rust-oleum paint is not meant to be brushed on and in the places I touched up if you are really looking at it you can see it was not as nice as spraying it on. If I had to do this over again I would have purchased a better paint for the hand painting portion but I would have painted the first coat with spray paint. I also would have purchased the clear he was using as I’m sure being a 2 part it’s much better. The end result? From a few feet away 99% of the people would not be able to tell my paint job from his and standing right next to it 95% wouldn’t know the difference. Only time will tell how well after riding for many hours just how well the cheaper paint and top coat holds up as when I’m not riding the bike it’s stored out of the elements and in particular, the sun.

Love it

nice I an subbed to you and to sea shepherd,great work✌️✌️✌️🐬🐬🐬

Love it 🥰

Me encantan tus trabajos🙌👏👏

Nice job

That looks dope, or sic!

Bravo my friend, bravo.

I love the colors and the theme and I love your eye for detail. Thats why I don't understand why the Bob Barker decal is so big and so white.

That paint job is amazing! Extra special cause of the environmental conservation theme!

Flame Blue is excellent paint. Shake more than you would the average paint and be sure to clear the resin out of the straw first before hitting your surface.

for me the downtube would be the perfect place for the Bob Barker print - the video was as always amazing, nice work man

His back🔥🔥

WoooHoooOo!! I just painted 5 frames with no protective mask and I feel great!!!

Awesome Dude! Mother Superior loves you! Keep up the good work top man!! Big Respect!!! (-:

This guy doesn’t know how good he is

Sea Shepherd is two words 🙂

Schönes Projekt

Hi Martin, it's a realy ultimate guide. I did my first paint jobb on a kids bike for a half year ago, and I was so exited so I'm working now on five projekt for my friends and my kids =) Btw, what kind of degreaser do you use before aplying a clear coat, that make no damage on a paint jobb? Thanks for realy cool paintwork and inspiration! Best regards Anton

spettacolo!

Wunderschön 😍

That is so cool I wish you could do mine in a black camo

Excelente 👌

I love the take kept at 11 minutes

Its probably worth recommending taking a frame to a workshop for blasting, it isn't very expensive and will save a lot of time and end up with a better result!

As always, Great video! By the way, will you do a repaint of an electric scooter? I know you only do bike related content and some helmets.

Hi! thank you for your videos they're very good. P I'm not sure whether you have covered this on a previous one but, is it okay to spray my carbon bike with Matt clear coat? Will the lack of paint leave it exposed to UV rays? Thanks and keep up the good work my friend!

@ETOE thanks for you vids. You say the frame needs to be freshly sanded before priming. I have been following your instructions and removing the paint on my frame over the last month with 400 grit wet sand, but now I wonder if I have taken too long? If I do the whole frame in 800 grit wet sand then prime on the same day will this work around the problem? Also, clear ammonia is very hard to get in Australia - are there alternatives to remove the oxidation before priming?

Really nice pain job

You are a wizard with a can! I've wondered though, do you ride, if so what type of riding do you do and do you custom paint your bike?

I myself think you are just a great spraying genius...................... i have learnt alot from you and i have resprayed by own bike, but just a boring Hammerite Smooth Blue.... results are GREAT though to watching and admiring your work....... so so inspirational.... May i send you a frame to spray in your own skilled amazing colour patterns........ I have a Specialized Rockhopper A1 Aluminium that needs your tender love and care......