bellamy bomber

[hartke20g]

http://www.liquid-fire.co.uk/musegear/musegear/chromemanson01.jpg
how would i go about painting a guitar to have that purplish burst effect considering the kind of paint is used to the chrome coloring? and also, how did they make it look like there are rivets like on a real airplane? i was considering just putting drops of solder on the body, but they'd come out too inaccurate.

and can someone perhaps show a NON-schematic diagram for how to add a built-in fuzz factory as this guitar has? http://www.liquid-fire.co.uk/musegear/mattmirror.html. i've never been able to read a schematic and don't want to take a chance messing up the wiring and possible overloading something.

general tips are also welcome.

[BlackDwarf]

Send your guitar over to me with a load of cash.
All of Matts guitars are made by Manson's Guitar shop, about 25 mins from where I live :)
In fact, I've seen him and Chris in there a few times buying gear :P

[Miek]

That doesn't look like an OFR

[another_guitarist]

its chromed then airbrushed with a mix of blue and purple. and hugh did put rivets in he drilled out holes and put the rivets in. and the trem looks like that of an ibanez

[hartke20g]

thanks for the replies. looks like i'll need to get a smaller airbrush.

[neatobassman]

I so want that guitar just for what it has despite the color.

[fortyseven]

isnt that guitar just chrome and then the purple is a reflection off something?

[another_guitarist]

isnt that guitar just chrome and then the purple is a reflection off something?

nope hugh airbrushed it that colour and just drilled holes and put the rivets in

[Scott01]

WOW THAT IS ONE HOT LOOKING GUITAR!!!!!!!!!

(sorry couldn't control the outburst :()

[Polyamarous]

Send your guitar over to me with a load of cash.
All of Matts guitars are made by Manson's Guitar shop, about 25 mins from where I live :)
In fact, I've seen him and Chris in there a few times buying gear :P

Me too! Jesus, it's a small world!

:wave:

[BlackDwarf]

:wave: Woo!

Hehe :D

[Sad But True]

Matt said, ‘We're on tour in four weeks time and I need a guitar with a tremolo on’. He said he wanted a rounded-off version of the first guitar with a mirror finish. I didn't have the technology to chrome-plate wood, or the time, as I was in Japan teching for John Paul Jones at the Guitar Wars project with Steve Hackett, Nuno Bettencourt and Paul Gilbert. So I got hold of the only guy I know who could do the mirroring, Martin Sims, and said, I need this guitar done incredibly quickly. Martin had the body for just two weeks to chrome plate and, because he had no time to do it properly, it came back with flash points where the mirroring hadn't worked and loads of bubbles in the topcoat. By this time the band had started their tour, but I looked at it and decided I could do something with it. I went to the local scrap yard and bought some rivets that came from an airplane. I don't know which one but on the box it said ‘1945’, so they're Second World War aluminium probably from a Spitfire or something. I decided to drill a load of holes and put rivets in to make it look like it was made from sheet metal. Then I went to town with an airbrush making it bluey purple. I was trying to make it look like a sort of burnt wing of a B52 bomber, I suppose. Luckily it turned out amazingly and it sounds awesome. It's funny how something that starts out being a good project, goes through this potential disaster stage and comes round to being a massive success." - Hugh Manson
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