Making cool looking unique motorcycle helmets

Posted by Alex on June 11th, 2018

If you think about the custom design, there comes lots of thing in the mind. There are a lot of items as well as products that people care about. Take something customizer and look for something else. For a usual designer it will take a lot time and work. However, for the dedicated - it's always a pure passion project!

A helmet is a protective headgear used by the motorcycle riders all around the world. The main goal of using a helmet is to ensure safety for the users. It saves our heads of during a ride. But obviously, producing helmets for all bikers in the world eliminates the ability to buy unique motorcycle helmets, they just all look the same.

Unique looking custom painted helmets is what the bike world really needs. There are a lot of ways to make your helmet look cool. But let's focus on painting your motorcycle helmet.

The simple way of painting a motorcycle helmet

Prepare your tools:

1. Buy painter’s tape airbrush gun or paint spray

2. Favorite colored water paint

3. Any big newspaper

4. Avoid paint splashing over your clothes with a raincoat

5. Flexible stencils

6. Paintbrushes and markers

Step 1. Use the sticking-plaster to cover all the places you don't want to paint and put on the raincoat. Then open that big newspaper on the floor and put your motorcycle helmet on it.

Step 2. Use your paint spray or painter’s tape airbrush. After that you have to wait about 20 minutes until the paint is dry.

Step 3. Use markers for drawing your picture’s sketch.

Step 4. Use paintbrushes and water paint to paint your motorcycle helmet based on your sketch. This step is the most difficult. It requires your drawing skill and caution. You simply can't make any mistake here. Here you have to wait at least 2-3 hours until the paint is dry.

Step 5. Now you need to spray transparent paint to make your motorcycle helmet’s surface shiny. Wait for 20 minutes.

Step 6: Remove the sticking-plaster. Now everything is done!

If you don't have much time, there are a lot of painting services that can actually help you. You can also buy motorcycle stickers and decals and add them to your motorcycle helmet. Of course, different painting services will work more professional, especially if they use printing 3D to produce 100% unique motorcycle helmets.

You need to be careful when you painting. The paint can stick to your hand or other areas of your motorcycle helmet. We hope you will succeed with making your helmet looking cool!