Tank repaint - Ballpark cost?

I'm never going to argue labor cost on a paint job ever again. Skimped out on it already myself, didn't remove all the bondo, didn't remove the paint from the bottom of the tank. The visible areas have been stripped as those were where the old paint was compromised from crashes, for now, good enough. I primer'd and put down an initial base coat of Duplicolor's gloss black 500 deg engine paint in three light-ish passes, 10 minutes apart as per the instructions. Still managed to get a couple runs, I'll decide if I'm going to sort those or not later. (Primary concern is preventing rust, not super looks.) I noticed that I've picked up a blue tint in a couple areas though, no idea where that came from. You can see it in the pic I posted, any idea what's causing it? My only thought is the can is starting to get low so there was more propellant than paint hitting that spot?

I've got to wait 7 days before I do anything according to the instructions, I also need to lay down one more base color layer before putting the clear coat to it, hopefully that'll get rid of the blue?

don't worry about the blue since you gotta sand out those axe marks from your previous axing...I mean sanding job.

Hah, it's going to get a wet sand with focus on the couple runs, I'd have to take it down to metal and re-bondo to get rid of the axe marks.

If all goes well, this winter the bike will be getting a total cosmetic refresh, then the tank will either get a professional respray, or stripped to metal and cleared as is to show off it's history.

To close this out, here is the butchered final result:

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I could either lay the paint down so it was stripey from the propellent, or heavy enough that it didn't stripe but instead sagged. Fixed the sags a couple times, then said to hell with it and just bombed ahead sags and all. It's a race tank, it only needs to keep it from rusting so for now it'll do the job until I can afford to have a professional do it right.

Ill be waitin buddy. ;-) let me know if there is anything I can do to help

This is NOT what a good paint job looks like:

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But, it'll work for now should the need arise. This winter's projects may involve custom tank work... once I know if I'm going down that road, then I'll know what the final professional job will look like. :D

wet sand