Monty Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) My first thought would be to mask and shoot the paint over the wheel arches, then do the straight body line. I'm guessing Tamiya's new-ish thin masking tape will be needed to get great looking results. I do have an airbrush so that should help some. An even bigger hurdle is trying to replicate that contrasting pinstripe. Any ideas there? Edited February 24, 2020 by Monty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espo Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 The masking is always the issue, especially with the Corvette style striping you're wanting to do. My suggestion would be to paint the lightest color first. Since part of this or another color will also show above the lower area you could overlap the lighter color further up the side of the body since the lower color will appear above the body line also. You mentioned having some real fine tape from Tamiya and that is what I would recommend also. Masking the portion of the light colored lower body is pretty straight forward. The next row of tape I would try and use some tape that is 3 mm or narrower. We'll call this row #1. Next you'll run another row of tape, row #2, that is as narrow as you can get. The next row #3 would also be as narrow as you can find as this will be the area that is going to be the top edge of the lower body color. Before painting you will remove the #1 row of tape all the way around. This is the area just above the break of the lower body color and this will allow that area to be painted the same color as the upper body. Row #2 stays and masks the lower body color that was painted earlier. Should you want a third contrasting color you would mask everything except row #1 as this will become the area of your third color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollySipper Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 The way I may would try to do it would be to paint the whole body with the bottom color, then use BMF to mask for the darker color...... You could just work like you were foiling the wheel arches to get the bottom color to follow them. Use a straight edge to get a nice clean straight piece of foil for the beltline separation....... I'm going to try fingernail masking tape for a pinstripe on a current project, as soon as I can find some in the color I need....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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