Red: Seat

Trying to get a mock up of a seat.  I first cut a couple cardboard pieces just to give a suggestion of foam, and then wrapped it all with the black faux leather.  That was a good learning exercise in wrapping.  But it didn't look all that great once it was on the bike.  It sort of just looked like, well... a seat pan wrapped in faux black leather.  Just didn't have any hint of cafe racer to it.

Decided I couldn't wrap the entire pan anymore, so instead I just wrapped some cardboard and put that "pad" onto the seat pan, which I painted in Cast Coat Aluminum.

This is closer to the minimal "padded pan" that I'm aiming for, except the pan is still too wide and busy.  So I think the plan is to just cut, bend, and shape a narrow length of aluminum, topped with foam wrapped in leather.

I'll continue to use the mocked up version for now, just need to find a way to securely glue the pad down to the pan.