Scallops

what is the easiest way to lay out some scallops? they woule be going on a 49 chevy so pretty flat on the fenders and stuff...

thanks

zach

 

Just practice, lay out tape line`s until you like what you see, once you have em like you want em, tape em off and start painting.
This stuff is easy, dont make it harder than it is, there are no rule`s!!

If you still dont think you can handle it, check out the tech section, theres a couple post`s in there about laying out flames....same basic deal.

 

A wise man suggested to me to get the red powder string that construction workers use to make straight lines on concrete would work on making the lines you need on your ride.. If not why not those new laser light's for straight lines on walls...

 

I like to level the car before I start laying out scallops. This way the scallops run with the lines of the car. I will put a few measured reference marks on the car where I want the scallops. I've heard of guys using chalk lines but it's not really needed. If you take 1/8" fine line tape and stick it to the body at one end of the scallop and pull it to the other end your line will be straight. When you do your layout remember to look at the area inside the tape.
Clark

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=614800&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=3&vc=1 take a look at these.

 

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Clark

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What he said.
That goes for flames too.
They shold both be graphics that run true to the body of the car, not with the ground regardless of what rake the car is on.
If the car is on a nose down rake, and yu make the scallops "level" with the ground, they will be going "downhill" on the side of the car...not good...
I like scallops that regardless of how long the "swooshes" are they are still made of the continuously curved line of an arc, elipse, hyperbol, whatever it's called, but not just some diverging straight lines coming to a point at one end and a half circle at the other.
Unless the scallops are more like Watson style panel painting rather that "Gee Bee racer" style scallops.
If the whole car is scalloped with lots of 60's style scallops inside scallops all over the sides hood and trunk, then they start sharing area with the original paint color.
In those cases, they work best when the two, the scallop color and the body color split the area about 50/50 and are complimentary to each other in color (not color wheel complimentary, I mean they dont look like **** together!) and they contrast each other in value, light and dark.
That way they will still read in black & white photos! if there's too much scallop area, the viewer might not know which color was the original body color and all the scallops could look inside out backwards.

Flamed scallops...?
That's when the scallops are laid out like regular scallops but then are painted with changing fogged on colors, like flames, with different color tips, etc.
Can look great if done well.
Can really **** big time if the color choices are off.

Don't pull the 1/8" tape too tight, it'll stretch like a rubber band but then since its tense it'll creap back just before you paint and **** stuff up...

 

Im not exactly sure what im going to do with my modified body. I want to leave it flat black but i just love the metalic look...

Im eaither going to do Metalic flames or scallops.. What ever i choose, im proudly going to do it myself.