Custom helmets
Your unique style. For custom helmet painting, new helmets are required. We stock Bell, Arai, Shoei, Schuberth and Simpson replica helmets.
Designed around you
If you do not already have a design picked out, you can email us photos of other helmets you like, take the examples from the Galleries, or use colored pencils on the sketch sheet available on this website. If you don’t have something specific in mind, I’ll give you ideas that I think might fit your helmet style and go well with your driving suit, car, etc.
It takes about 2-3 weeks to finish the work, but I may be able to “rush” it for an extra charge. I will email you a photo of your nearly completed helmet while it is in final cure after clear coat. The helmet must be paid 50% in advance.
Pricing is completely dependent on the design, colors and materials you’d like us to use. Most likely you will want some level of personalization and pricing will vary accordingly.
What you can get in your helmet
Graphics, names & numbers
Standard/basic graphics on new helmet and names or numbers on front, rear or sides. Logos, names and numbers can be added to any design — vinyl-lettered or painted at an extra cost.
Special effects
Character work, airbrushed murals and special effects colors such as metallics, metalflakes, pearlescents, iridescents and chameleon pearls.
Chrome & silver bases
Coarse metallic silver base or chrome base (allow up to 1 week extra). We also recommend various silver paint choices: fine grain, coarse grain, pearl, sparklercent and more.
Hand finished, step by step
Once we settle on a design, the helmet is first taken apart as much as possible, though with most helmets there’s not much that will come off besides the visor and maybe some of the vent covers and sometimes rubber molding. The rest is masked as carefully as possible. The outside is sanded lightly to take off the outer glaze. It is then primered, and then the masking starts for the patterning. Of course the colors all have to be done one at a time, remasking everything else.
The color coats are automotive style acrylics and/or other specialty paints, and the clearcoat is at least 3 coats of catalyzed urethane, color wet sanded by hand with 1000 grit and then 2000 grit 3M finishing sandpaper, and finally hand polished for that “you can see your reflection” final surface finish.
Most logos (like the prancing horse or helmet brand logos) can be painted, but if you have stickers you’d like to use, they can be applied under the clearcoat so that the final result is smoothed and won’t have hard edges. For maintenance, you can apply any wax or polymer sealer, just like you would on your car’s paint.
Custom helmets we built
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