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dougthebonifiedbusnut (24.218.119.24)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 24, 2002 - 2:00 pm: | |
during my deployment i have had a lot of time to come up with diffrent paint schemes, well i have the one i was looking for but now i think more and more i will have to paint the bywaylady myself does anyone have any tips or how to's for transforming a paper scheme to the bus itself i just went out to the old girl and tried to use masking tape to come up with the same curves as on the drawring not as easy as one would think im thinking if i put the lines on clear vinyl like in on of the thousands of classes i have taken in the last two months loking at overhead projections if i shine a light through it on to the bus will the shadow of the lins be visable need some help guys thanks |
Gary Stadler (Boogiethecat) (68.7.217.217)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 24, 2002 - 2:42 pm: | |
Overhead projectors work great. The best way is to take a photo of the bus with a digital camera and make a line drawing out of it on a computer program like photoshop. Then get some clear plastic printing paper for your ink jet printer and make a print, put it on the projector and away you go. One problem that you need to address is to make sure you take the photo from the same exact point and distance as where you set your projector, so you don't introduce distortions due to different perspectives... so get the projector first, set it on the ground and pull back until it covers the whole bus, then make sure that you can see the whole bus from the same point as your projector lens, with your camera. If not, keep pulling the projector back until you can see the whole bus in your camera... then you'll eventually have to make size corrections in your computer prior to printing, to get everything to match up....
Cheers
Gary |
Stan (65.58.142.65)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 24, 2002 - 3:13 pm: | |
If you have made full size drawings you could try the method used by signpainters. Go over the outlines with a pounce wheel which leaves tiny perforations. Hang the drawing on the side of the bus and go over the perforations with a pounce bag (a bag filled with powder). When you take off the drawing you have the outline as dotted lines of powder which you follow with narrow masking tape made to follow tight curves. |
Jayjay (205.188.209.11)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 24, 2002 - 10:03 pm: | |
Try fine-line tape. One of the many names for a genre' of narrow, thin adhesive backed vinyl tape designed especially for doing that kind of work. Most upscale autobody paint jobbers will stock it. 3M is on mfg. that I have used successfullu when painting airplanes with exotic urethane paints. Use it to make the smooth lines you are looking for, then add your wider tape onto it. The narrow one gives you the latitude to apply the wider stuff. Then use the third overlap of masking tape with you paper on it. Use a good automotive grade masking tape, not the junk at Wally-world. HTH Merry and Happy, and Cheers...JJ |
Larry Baird (Airhog) (66.171.52.107)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 12:30 pm: | |
I have a vinyl cutting machine I use for a small side business and I use what we call paint mask. It is masking tape that is cut to to the design you want. Yor apply it the same as you would vinyl the after you apply the paint you remove it. If you are interested you can go to any vinyl shop or better yet let me do it at the busnuts super discount price and send it to you. |
dougthebonifiednusnut (24.218.119.24)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 6:45 pm: | |
thanks guys
ill send you some pics larry tell me what yopu think but i think gary's idea will work best for me,i think |
Phil (204.89.170.126)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 26, 2002 - 12:53 pm: | |
A little tip for getting crisp lines between the base color and the trim color. After masking the design (with quality fine line tape!!!)spray a light coat of the base color over the masked edges and let dry some. Then paint the trim color. The trim will not bleed under the tape. The bleed under will not be as bad with fine line tape but ther will still be some. This method eliminates it. |
Chris Sanderson (65.58.167.83)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 11:07 pm: | |
I just wait till it's about dusk, fortify myself with one of the common clean up products(Rum) and start painting- Low light conditions really improve your painting techniques- then you sand out the screw ups the next day and have another go at it. It's Paint, you dont have to get it right the first time |