TECH: Lettering / Super Stock Paint

Some news on my 66 Dart, with some one Shot, a brush, and a red rattle can...


First, transfert the design on the body,




A few hours of work...



Here's the result...





Now some masking work with 3M fine line...




Rattle can job...








The car need now a big central design, to fill the center space...

 

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First, transfer the design to the body....
Please explain how you did this.

I know I'm being a wise guy, but I plan to put a logo on the doors of my pick up and I am truly interested in any methods for transferring the design to the vehicle.

Thanks, Mike

P.S. The car looks great, I really dig the old Super Stock type stuff.

 

"Sanford and Son Salvage" by any chance?

Yeah, how did you "trace" the letters?

 

Not to jump over anybody - but when I am doing this sort of transfer, I perforate the design through the paper with a pokey wheel thing-like a spiked pizza cutter. Take the perforated paper, put it in place, then go over the design with some chalk in a little cotton bag-a pounce.

The chalk goes through the holes in the paper, showing the design on the panel...

 

This could have been a good tech but..............more detail if you did transfer via pounch bag why not show the design being laid on the paper first then show alinement technique for us newbes that continue to skew the alinenment. then show us how you transfered the design then show us some of the brush strokes you used then show us some of the pin striping going onto the car. Clearly you know what your doing and I know its easier to do than teach but slow it down and teach us newbes how its done

 

I love your free hand lettering style -

Let me help

The pizza cutter is called a pounce wheel - buy it at a local art supply, you can either do the design on the computer & print it & pounce it or Have your local sign shop run it out on there Gerber machine in pounce or with a pen and then you pounce. To make a pounce bag get an old cotton sock and put carpenters chalk in it (just make sure the chalk color isnt the same as what you are painting over) then pat the pattern after it is taped in place.

To get your layout to look good measure and play with the fineline before you place your pattern and pounce.

Some guys i worked with would use a grease pencil and lightly trace the lines but the fineline gives a nice edge.

The free hand is tough and takes a lot of practice - I believe its a God given talent to make those letters look right.

 

The way I have done transfers in the past is very old tech... I think I learned it is grade school. Simply 'color' the back side of the transfer with a common pencil, tape the transfer where you want it and trace the the picture, fonts, whatever. The pencil on the back would work like carbon paper and where you applied pressure would leave marks. Simple and easy.

Doug

 

It's easy, the printed design is taped on the body, and after that, the drawing is transfered with typewriter carbon paper between the design and the body.
It works well on a white body, maybe it's not the best on a black body...
You can use another method: just "paint" the back of the printed design with chalk, and re-draw the lines of the design to transfert the chalk on the body ...
My english ****s, but I hope you understand...

 

Thanks Dusty and Fence, those are the two methods that I have been considering.

I just wonder if anyone knows of any other methods for transferring designs like this. It's always good to have alternatives.

Thanks, Mike

 

Ah, carbon paper. Another good idea. Thanks Empire.

 

Another way to transfer the design would be to use an overhead projector. Commonly available at art supply and teacher supply stores. You can adjust it to whatever size looks best with this method.

Then trace over the projection with a Stabilo (water-soluble) pencil...also available at art supply stores.

 

nice work, Etienne. it looks- right!

all different types of transferring patterns described above have their place. I like pouncin' for slightly looser letterforms and carbon or transfer paper for tighter, sharper forms, like logos.

 

Good work Etienne. Nice tech!!

{I thought carbon paper was obvious, but then you've told me that before for those cool wood signs you do!}