i'm more impressed by your paint job, than the repair! now, bottle cages - black? or white? or black on the seat tube and white on the down tube? or other way around?
No paint involved.
Really.
I don't do wet medium, I'm an engineer - if I cannot cut it, I am not that interested.
Wet medium is for the artists.....
As a generalisation
I pulled Scott's logo from their website. It was horribly pixellated - so I re-drew it using Adobe Illustrator.
I scaled it up and had a friend in the printing industry print it to vehicle-wrap vinyl.
What you can see in the pic called 'Later that same day' is essentially a big sticker which covers the entire down tube.
Look closely and you'll see the edges of the sticker by the head tube and down by by the bottom bracket.
Easy peasy.
Well... no, not actually - given that the tube changes dimension in all three planes, and you have to accommodate the bottle cage bosses....
It was never going to be a concours job.
But I'm more than happy with the result.
I'm not trying to hide the fact that it has been repaired.
Carbon bottle cages (black) are currently on order. Forza. Same as on the Van Nic.
Right now?
I'm pretty sure it is the lightest of the four bikes I have.
Could do with a spot of dry weather to see how it rides...