Nice job!.........the design flows out well.......are you doing the whole car or just what we see?........sent your pic's to another Valiant buddy.........should like it alot!!
Great mix of style's. The work follow's the center of hood well. The flames go w/the 'curve' of fener/hood.Like the shade of color as well. Different and unique.
[ QUOTE ] Nice job!.........the design flows out well.......are you doing the whole car or just what we see?........sent your pic's to another Valiant buddy.........should like it alot!! [/ QUOTE ] Might do a similar design over the roof too. Trying to get something different for Hootennany...
[ QUOTE ] how about scallops on the sides and flames in the middle ,see what that looks like [/ QUOTE ] tried it (didn't save the file) and it didn't flow with the lines of the car..
how abaout a row of flames across the winshield then streeaming back into a scalloped line maybe equally spaced but short and long ones ,i am too lazy to photoshop
Personally, Ido not think flames and scallops work well together -- unless there is more of a visual link between them. Right now, they exist separately, without much to justify them together. I realize that this is just a preliminary photochop job, but you also violate the lines of the car in a few instances, and that can be distracting. One way to tie them together better is to panel paint the car, using some scallops as dividers and accents, and nesting the flames within the panels. To do this correctly, it's probably worth it to spend some money. Obviously metalflake and kandy is what makes something like this pop. I'll work up a quick example of what I'm trying to describe. -don
This looks like junk, but hopefully it conveys the idea. Your car is a SQUAREBODY car, as most mid 60s cars are, so you need to acknowledge the blocky lines of the car. Section it off into a panels with radiused corners, then built layers of borders within the panel. The flames become intergral to the border, and everything ties together. This kind of paint job is painful to design and excrutiating to lay out. If not done right, it will also look terrible. But done right, with a good eye for proportion, it will look killer. Imagine it with flake and buried under kandy and it would be eye-searing.
Well - here is is. The flames still need to be stripped, maybe one night this week... </p> </p> </p> Shane helping out with the template </p> </p> </p> </p> </p> The wife and Joe Jr. </p>
I think flames look good... and I think Scallops look good... but flames and scallops together look like you're trying to jump onto two bandwagons at once. I also think that your flames look better than your scallops... Sam.
[ QUOTE ] I like the "devil tail" tips on the outter flames,... they got me to thinkin'.....hmmm [/ QUOTE ] I got the idea for the devil tips on a Shoebox (I think) on a page that had Texas Roundup (I think) coverage... Every lick has a little devil tail on it... cool as fuk... I spend WAY too much time on the internet looking at cars, it feels pretty good to go outside and work on mine!
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