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Hi all! Anyone got a bag of tricks or easy method for painting a black and white checkered flag on a blue car? This will be airbrushed with PPG and clearcoated. I started on the firewall by covering the surface with 2" masking tape. I drew out the design and cut out the white squares with a blade. I then unmasked the whole thing when the white was complete and repeated the entire process for the black squares! What a taping nightmare! Any suggestions on an easier way to do this? The rest of the Camaro is still in primer waiting for your suggetions.
Thanks for the help everyone.
Derick
-------------------- Derick Wylam The Graphics Bandit www.graphicsbandit.com Email-graphicsbandit@yahoo.com Posts: 19 | From: Binghamton, NY, USA | Registered: Jan 2000
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What si said, cept you'll need to retape the outer edges. If you don't retape outwards a little, and I'm talking a little here, like .050" you'll get this annoying little white line along the outer edge of the black squares.
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
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What's wrong with leaving a thin white line around edge? I think that its necessary if you want the black to show over the blue background; especially if its medium or dark. If its light blue, then I'd agree; but only if its very light.
Other than that, I'd do what Si said. But when masking for black, make sure it fits within the white backing, with a thin outline to break it from the blue.
-------------------- Bill Cosharek Bill Cosharek Signs N.Huntingdon,Pa
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Si is dead on. I did this same thing on a stock car a couple of years ago. Dark blue, thinned down to transparency, is great for shadowing the folds and ripples in the flag.
-------------------- Ben Sherr Street Metal Custom Auto Art 3006 River Rd Hopewell, Va 23860 (804)452-1540 Bjay65@msn.com Posts: 77 | From: Hopewell, Virginia | Registered: Mar 2002
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Bill, nothings wrong with a thin outline IF you are planning on one. If you're not expecting it, it comes as a rather unpleasant suprise, and in these cases it's not really an outline, just a thin white line measured in the thousands of an inch, in other words it LOOKS like a mistake. A planned outline of 1/16 or 1/8 looks good, is an easy solution to the problem and as you pointed out helps the checkerboard pattern stand out.
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