Custom Paint Question

I’m working on ideas for paint for the roof of my ’58 Chevy. I want to put lace on it and some air-brush details like the one pictured. I’m mostly intrigued by what borders the lace in the picture and how this effect is done; does anyone know how it was done?

Thanks R&C

 

Take a piece of poster board and cut it out like a "blob".....or "splash"....and just use it as a stencil, moving it around at various angles.....spraying yer candy....

 

Hmm, looks like you would need to be real careful with that. If you look at the picture up close you can see where the template has been moved quite a bit. Either that or he used multiple templates.

 

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Sinister's got it. You can do it very quickly with a template, and yes, move it around, overlap each other, use different shapes.
Only thing I have to add is I like to use the paper you buy to print photos on. It holds up better than paper, with cleaner edges.
Back in the day, my boss had ones cut out of sheet metal, with a welding wire brazed to it, for a handle. For doing fish scales, and blobs like your pic.

 

This may sound silly but would you use a regular paint gun or an air brush? It would seem that for details like that an air brush would be best because there would be less paint loss and over spray.

 

Did you consider just doing a "test" panel?

 

Geography is a *****, the car and all my tools are in Texas and I am in Australia.

 

That's going to be one LONG airhose!

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They cut out a form and used the positive and the negative of the template. Less is more with that kind of thing, it's easy to over due it and lose the affect.

 

Yep, you either have an eye for that or you don't.

So what would you use Nick, gun or air brush?

Thanks Tman!

 

A small touch-up gun works good and covers larger areas lots faster than an airbrush. Looks like stuff i was doing in 1972 LOL.

 

Everything old is new again. Thanks for the tip.

 

I'd use an airbrush on a panel that small......and if ya use intercoat for the candy, it'll dry quickly and there will be no issue of the paint "smudging" on yer stencil when overlapping.

 

Could you explain what intercoat is?

 

It's a clear basecoat......you can add yer candy intensifier to it, pearl, metalflake or even add it to a base color to make it more transparent..or to blend....

 

I've got a lot to learn, thanks for the help.