Silver bits silver

You know when you can't see something but you know it's there and you know its not quite right?

Well that's how I felt about my NSR's subframes. They were far from ghastly but they were spotted with corrosion from where wiring looms had rubbed and heavy handed toolmanship had chipped away at the old paint.
So having raided Halfords for some paints I took all of the subframes off of the bike.
I have seen and liked the Tyga clock stay and front fairing subframe but I still decided to spray the originals. I have seen a forum post where someone managed to snap their Tyga clock stay during disassemble (sorry couldn't find a link), putting me off that a little and for the time being it was worth tidying up the original parts whilst I already had the paints out.
The first job was to remove all of the corrosion and old paint. This I achieved with a couple of wire brush bits on the end of my drill and smoothed off with some wet and dry.
With all of the parts off and prepped, I waited for a nice sunny day. A plague of thunder bugs were a problem for a while. One day the house was coated with them and I didn't fancy 'bug chip paint' much no matter how much I wanted to get on with this, but soon a bug free sunny day did come.
I masking taped off my washing line and hung the parts up with wire locking.
Two coats of grey primer went on quickly then followed by some Audi silver metallic. I did three coats of this boxing each part off into four sides and doing all the parts together. So all of the fronts, then all of the left side then right etc. This way I got good coverage without encouraging runs as by the time I got back to the first part the side I had just done was drying out. I was careful to leave a half hour or so between coats as even though the paint was touch dry as it left the can I didn't want to mess this up. I also moved the wire locking between coats so there wouldn't be a bold spot left by the thin wire.
Leaving a good hour to let the paint dry I then went at it with some heavy duty lacquer. I bought this as it would also be used on the forks and seeing as both areas were prone to damage I went with it everywhere. As the main coat was metallic I didn't need to rub the surface down for the lacquer to stick which hardened to a bright gloss. I was expecting some dulling and the can itself did profess to yellowing white paint but I didn't notice anything of the sort.
A couple more coats of lacquer and a few hours later and they were finished. I left them hanging till the evening and placed them in the garage in rags so they didn't pick up prints from the floor.
The following morning they were ready so I slung them back on with a good dose of copper slip on the bolts and the back or the rectifier.
Her clothes may well be tatty but at least she now has a clean set of underwear on.