50 oldsmobile foil

[Butter 1]

I am doing a box stock 50 oldsmobile to practice paint and foiling before I ruin my more serious build. 

I foiled the entire car with Power Plus foil used for furnace duct tape. Then I painted and polished the body, removed the foil and now I am re applying the foil. The white parts of the body are where the foil was and the fender/door trim is the first Power Plus foil I reapplied

[bisc63]

Appears to be working fine!

[Oldmopars]

That is a very different way to go about it, however,  if it works keep going. It looks good. 

[Butter 1]

16 minutes ago, Oldmopars said:

That is a very different way to go about it, however,  if it works keep going. It looks good. 

I had difficulty in the past getting clean straight edges when I tried to foil. This way, I got the trim straight before painting. When I removed the first pieces of foil, I tracked along the ridge created by the edges of the foil with my #11 exacto knife so the paint wouldn't peal when I removed the foil. This process left a slight straight "ditch" to drag my knife through when I was trimming the second, final piece of foil. In addition, the detail of the model's trim piece is protected from having any paint laying on it which could hide some of the detail of the trim.

[Bills72sj]

4 hours ago, Butter 1 said:

I had difficulty in the past getting clean straight edges when I tried to foil. This way, I got the trim straight before painting. When I removed the first pieces of foil, I tracked along the ridge created by the edges of the foil with my #11 Exacto knife so the paint wouldn't peal when I removed the foil. This process left a slight straight "ditch" to drag my knife through when I was trimming the second, final piece of foil. In addition, the detail of the model's trim piece is protected from having any paint laying on it which could hide some of the detail of the trim.

Logical concepts. Especially keeping the detail crisp. I may need to try your technique. I have used foil for masking two tone paint jobs previously.

[Butter 1]

18 hours ago, Bills72sj said:

Logical concepts. Especially keeping the detail crisp. I may need to try your technique. I have used foil for masking two tone paint jobs previously.

Thanks for your comment. I posted this hoping to help others like myself that have had difficulty getting foil to look clean, crisp and straight.

[slusher]

looks really nicely done!

[Butter 1]

Hey Carl.  I really appreciate the feed back. Glad you like it.