Carbon Fibre Decal Templates

[Saturnine]

I have an Aoshima S15 that I want to give a carbon fibre hood. How do I do it? Do I just cut out a square big enough to cover the hood, and then trim it? Is there a way to make a template? Is there a website with random templates? Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

[Drago]

Simple cover the hood with masking tape. Cut off the excess then place the mask in the back of the CF sheet. You can drawn the format with a pencil or can direct cut using a x-acto or a scissor.

[FujimiLover]

What decal are you useing? If your using Scale Motor Sports, be very delicate. Their stuff can tear easily, but they are awesome. I have not tried the masking tape idea yet myselfe but it might work.

Scale Motor Sport does provide some pre-made templates, but unfortunetly, they can't provide it for every model. I think they only provide it for the most popular Ferrari and WRC models.

If your good with a ruler, you might want to take some measurements and measure every line of your hood and transfer that to the back of the carbon-fiber decal makeing sure that the pattern is how you want it. With carefull measureing, I think you can just simply cut from your own design and you'll be fine.

[B_rad88]

i use a sheet of note book paper, lay it on the car trace the hood seems and cut it out, the place it over the carbon fiber and cut the carbon to shape. almost kinda like making a stencil!

[Corvette.Jeff]

http://store.scalemotorsport.com/merchant2...Category_Code=4

[crispy]

I use the tape method too. Although I transfer it to to tracing paper then to the decal. Maybe extra work, but its what works for me.

Chris

[chudley]

the way i do carbon fiber is to use a section of drawer liner as the template. the rubber non slide kitchen drawer liner. I paint the surface my base color usually black then just hold the piece of liner to the model and spray usually a charcoal silver sometimes standard silver mixed with black to darken. Then follow with transparent black lightly to blend the layers together. for larger areas just move the template you cut out to line up the pattern and spray again.