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Finally got a chance to try my hand at Mike Lavalee style flames this past weekend on the bottom of my truck...thanks Joey for the link to the "how to".
Pretty happy with the result, especially the attempt to make the flames look like they are hitting the bottom edge of the stripes.
The "Brushwood Studios" is ripple holographic film and the phone numbers are Signgold. Stripes were done by bagging pearlescent blue and bright red with plastic wrap. Center caps are done with annodized blue paint.
Guess I better get going on the other side, huh? Rapid
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Ray, those flames are so real I would keep the fire extingwisher handy. Top of the line quality.
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I was just going to say the same thing- you'll draw complaints from the crowd about how dangerous it is to drive with all that fire about!
(Flamin' beautiful!)
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No replies so far about the source of the info?
Tyr the September/October 2002 AutoGraphics magazine, (vol.5,No.1) pages 8 to 14, a 'how-to' by some old geezer called Lavallee. (www.autographicsmag.com)
(there, did I let the cat out of the bag, or is there a better set of guidelines, other than what other heads (or Spike) have written about Mike's sequences of colour?)
Edit- I should add that the 'old geezer' in question was good enough to handout a few copies of this very good magazine when he & Rhonda came over to LetterheadsOz at Jordan Signs in Sydney in 2002, and he gave us all a demo by flaming Army Dave's (Dave O'Hanlon's) walla tank. He makes it look so easy!
Edited again to add This Link to the order page for backissues of thatAutographics magazine.
(think I'd better get back to work before my wife edits me with cross hatches.....)
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Thanks for the links, Ian. I bumped them up to the BB and Joey has also posted the link form the signweb.com site that he sent to me initially. I'd unintenionally deleted his email with it and could not easily find it again.
just want to go on record...
Mike specifies the paint materials to be used in detail, and the process is done entirely before any clearcoat is used on the vehicle.
Given the choice, I would have preferred to do it as he describes, but it would have meant having to do some major repainting of the truck by a body shop beforehand. A little too costly for a first attempt and I drive the truck all the time and could not afford the downtime it would have needed. Given those circumstances, I actually did not use the materials Mike names, but went in a very different direction due to it being done over an exsisting clearcaot finish.
Please understand that this was not a spur of the moment thing. Despite 25+ years of aibrushing, I still spent a lot of time thinking this through, researching the idea, talking it over with some fellow Letterheads at live meets, and still had to build up the courage to do it. I'm also willing to accept that it could fall of or become easily damaged and am willing to accept the cost of fixing it should it turn out bad. I would never do this on a customer's vehicle!!!!!!!!!!
I can't stress the fact enough that the materials Mike uses are top of the line, designed specifically for vehicle painting, involve experience working with and are much more effective. They also require added safety concerns and those should not be taken lightly.
Rapid
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With all that said..is it possible to do this with Createx?
I want to give it a try, I'm just real sensitive to anything solvent based, and being perpetually broke, I can't afford all the set up I would need to do it safely.
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Nice Job Ray! and you did it without the paints I wrote about to boot! the colors look right and I think you did a great job! Mike
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