Noob Question

[dksu]

Hi, I have few noob questions. I'm about to paint my first body. After I apply the mask, in which I'm using flame mask, I paint the background color and then peel off the flame to paint it. How do I paint the flames so that my flame colors will not overlap into the main body color? Also, how do i make checker patterns? Let's say black and white checker patterns with clean straight junctions?

[FreeRideJunkie]

If I understand what you're saying about the flames... before you pull the mask off you'll need to back the paint that you just sprayed. (unless of course it was black or some other color that will not allow light to penetrate it.) Back a color you want to be light with either white or silver and back a dark color with black. Then spray away at the flames. Because they are on the inside of the body you'll only see the nice clean lines from the mask.

Not a checker expert but I believe that it's done by laying strips of tame that you neatly cut into a checker pattern with an razor blade.

GL

[dksu]

thanks a bunch, i think i :) understood

[Piggy89373]

Follow FreeRide's advice on the backing. For checkers, they're fairly straight forward. Take a piece of paint masking tape, draw out your checker design on it, stick it to the inside of the body and cut away the pieces you don't want using an Xacto knife.

[SteveK]

You could also try coating the whole surface with liquid mask, draw the design on the outside of the body, and cut along the lines and peel the mask off the inside.

[dksu]

if I want alternating black and white boxes. Do i paint the black box first and then white? What happpens if I'm not careful and the white paint bleeds into black box? Will it not matter as black color will not show white?

[Piggy89373]

Paint the black boxes first. If you have bleed over, use a toothpick to clean up the area before laying the white. You can alsy, very carefully, scrape off the bleeds with an Xacto knife. Just be sure you don't gouge out the lexan. By the way, backing white with black produces a sickly blue color.