'60 Ford Starliner

[JayVee]

This Starliner was originally painted with ghost fire licks on the sides, and it looked cool until it ended up with a huge scratch that happened while applying the roughly 3 miles of chrome foil. I was kind of bored with it since I had done a few more paint jobs similar to it that came out better. I just repainted it in white/champagne gold and I'm trying out a new technique for flame masking. The photo shows a strip of tape that was cut on a piece of glass with a wavy line down the middle. The two halves were offset to make the string-of-hourglasses pattern. The end of one piece has been cut to make an insert to shape the flame lick. So basically all that's needed to build up the paint mask is a bunch of tape with these wavy line cuts. Pretty cool! I'm going to lay down three strips of flames on each side of the car, and they'll be white with blue/purple highlights:

[Jantrix]

Hmmm..........

[JayVee]

Well, I tried out that idea for making crab claw flames, and the problem is that the pattern is very hard to get precise enough to look good. If it were a die cut pattern then it would work great. I settled on this different paint scheme because I wanted long, flowing flame licks to complement the long chrome trim on the sides of the car. The flame colors are mica silver, aqua pearl, and purple pearl, with pearl clear. Here's a shot of the paint job before removing the tape to show the colors. For me, this moment in the painting process is always accompanied by a little trepidation:

And here's the result. Click on the "Click to view full image" to get an accurate picture because the scaled down photo

makes the flames look jagged and uneven:

Now it's on to the other side of the car!

[FordRodnKustom]

Now that's some creative paint work! I like the stance and wheels. Superb work on the mill too. Nice 'Liner!