Saturday I've been busy painting some scallops on my '60 NY. The driversside, on which I already made a tryout-scallop, took well over 2 hours to mask. The try-out scallop that was on the car wasn't to my liking so I proceeded from there. The problem during taping is ofcourse you have to think in reverse, and more important, you have to keep looking at the layout so it stays in line with the car and also still look good. It doens't matter if you have done over 20 hours of Photoshopping upfront, only on the car you'll find curvings, depths and lines you won't see while Photoshopping. After the driversside of the car had been done, taping the pass.side went much faster because there's something to work from on the other side. Eventually I made some minor adjustments on the pass.side. I decided to make the upper most lines at bit thinner and sharper compared to the other side. Most likely I will redo the driversside one day, but for now it has to do. Unfortunatly the photos of the end-result were a bit blurry so I'll have to retake those. In the end, I think I'm fairly ok with the way they turned out, considering this is my first real try at making some scallops on a car. Perhaps I will create an accent line around the scallops in some color, but I'm not sure about that yet. Ok, enough talk... here are some pics...
I normally don't care too much for scallops, but gotta say you nailed it! Looks really good, flows with the bodylines.
THAT IS what diligent work and discipline can do to make the work just perfect! Congratulations, you hit it dead on.
Thanks all. My idea with the scallops was to extend the 'shimmer' of the chrome parts on the car along the body. I really like to think that is the original intent/idea of scallops on a car. "The blurred effect of the shimmer of chrome on a car as if it's at speed." (Correct me if I'm wrong please.) At first I thought I could end the lines at around the front door, but during taping I found that probably didn't look right so I extended them way further. I think that was a good idea. Some daylight pics...
The layout looks good as far as placement, but they look forced. Scallops are supposed to be smooth and flowly, accenting the lines of the car. Yours are really square and jagged. Try laying them out with 1/8" fine line tape rather than 3/4" like you used. You can bend the lines and smooth them out better with it.
Did you think about shaveing the back door handles. That would make that car really nice with those scallops. It looks like those scallops should run up those fins, but they still look nice.
I can agree with that. I'm guessing you're mostly referring to the lower portions of each scallop? The lowest part of the lower fender scallops just behind the wheel is what had me worried during masking. Once I painted everything and pulled the masking off only then I noticed the lower part didn't really jive that well with the chrome trim below it. Perhaps I still was just a little too hasty with getting the car done in one afternoon. We had a meeting this sunday and I wanted to get it all finished before that, although I did go to the meeting 'cause it rained dearly that sunday-morning. One thing I learned rightaway when I finally started putting the tape on the car, is that making scallops is not all that easy as one might think. I'll be making sure I've got some fineline tape at hand when I go at it again. Perhaps I should also have done some more measuring instead of eyeballin'. I just did a quick Photoshop of how the lower part might look a bit better I guess...
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