marking out panels for painting
blakep82 - 5/1/11 at 10:05 PM
say i wanted to paint a stripe on a car, boat, whatever, what can i use to mark it out?
i bought a RC boat of flak monkey on here a few months back, and been sorting out the body as practise for when i paint the car. what can i use to
mark out the centre of the boat? and the edges of the stripe? already made one failed attempt last night which ended up a bit wonky, like very
noticebaly wonky! 
can i use pencil? will that react with the paint? permanant marker maybe? then paint over it?
here's how it looks just now after stripping off 4 layers of paint! oh, then painting it white lol
[Edited on 5/1/11 by blakep82]
MakeEverything - 5/1/11 at 10:32 PM
Use Masking Tape and paper.
Canada EH! - 5/1/11 at 10:34 PM
Get yourself some Tamiya masking tape in 6mm,10mm,and 18mm widths, then go for it, it is especially made for what you are trying to do, make sure the
edges are down tight before you spray, there TS series of paints work well on glass fibre.
austin man - 5/1/11 at 11:09 PM
why spray the stripe on its far easier to apply vinyl stripes
blakep82 - 5/1/11 at 11:30 PM
quote:
Originally posted by austin man
why spray the stripe on its far easier to apply vinyl stripes
yeah, but i'm trying to teach myself the harder way of doing things, and trying to teach myself some attention to detail too... think i've
done alright though...
er, should have checked if the photos were the right way up before uploading... lol
[Edited on 5/1/11 by blakep82]
skodaman - 6/1/11 at 02:43 AM
Wow from that first pic I thought you were customising an ironing board.
Looks a neat job though. Don't use normal decorators masking tape
cos it bleeds and cellulose seems to melt it. Many moons ago I did a Honda CBR1100R replica and used gold pinstriping tape inbetween red and white
that worked quite well.