Yes, I did all the work except for the metal plating....havent figured out how to do that in my tiny garage yet!
I actually painted the tank six times before I was happy with it. Not joking! I've painted a lot of bikes, but I wanted to get this one as close to perfect as I could. One issue that I was determined to solve was candy consistency around the filler neck. Because you must be very careful with how many passes of your candy you use, it is almost impossible to get an even amount of candy paint around sharp angles like the filler neck. The result that you will see on many restorations is that the candy either gets lighter at the filler neck or darker depending on how the painter chose to address the problem. I wasn't happy with either solution. After a few tries, I came up with this:
1. After painting the basecoat (a very fine silver metallic), I masked off around the filler neck anything that would be painted from a spray gun above the tank.
2. I then used an airbrush to apply the candy to the side of the filler neck and the gas cap "hinges". You can see this at about 2:38 in the video.
3. After removing the masking, I painted the candy as normal.
4. The result was even candy on the entire tank!
This was the first time I have ever painted the stripe on the tank. I used an original early wrinkle tank to get all the measurements and, as you can see in the video, painted the black and then the gold. I'll never use a decal again. The result is so nice and more accurate to my original tanks.