Making gold pinstripes Ideas ?

[gtx6970]

Wonding if anyone has ideas on how , if even possible to replicate this gold pinstripe in between the 2 blue stripes 

 

Im thinking a .5mm wide tape  if that is a size even avail 

take two Exacto blades mounted side by side and make my own from a gold foil type tape maybe? will even that be narrow enough?

Edited Monday at 05:48 PM by gtx6970

[64SS350]

Microscale has pinstripe decals, check them out.

[64SS350]

I did do these with some painstaking masking...

[peteski]

To me it looks like the blue areas are painted and the gold stripe is the applied over the gold.

Is the stripe (and lettering shadows) actually metallic gold, or imitation gold or just a non metallic dark yellow/orange paint?

[Ace-Garageguy]

22 minutes ago, 64SS350 said:

Microscale has pinstripe decals, check them out.

Yup. These are 1/32" but I've seen them as fine as 1/64"

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203126014043?

[gtx6970]

On the 1/1 I think the gold is painted pinstripe on top of the blue

Appears to be about a 1/2inch maybe wide

I;ll be cking out Microscale later today . I did see they had this one / but need to see what scale they say it is 

 

I did lay out some 1mm wide Tamiya tape and it MIGHT work , but deep down would prefer something just a touch narrower 

I have a pinstripe decal sheet from The Last Detail . but there's not enough stripes to do the entire car all the way around on the sheet . IF its even still any good 

 

I will try to take 2 exacto blades in one tool in an attempt to make my own and see what it comes out to as well

 

[gtx6970]

9 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Yup. These are 1/32" but I've seen them as fine as 1/64"

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203126014043?

I think these might work 

price is right any way to make an attempt

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/197615194057

[Can-Con]

I'd suggest these. They're HO scale 1 and 2 inch stripes. Should be thin enough. They make thinner strips in other colors but unfortunately not gold.

https://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=eb977ae4ed3f2c98973d6a17d4f63427&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=91113&Store_Code=MD&search=n+scale+gold+stripes&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=

[gtx6970]

Thanks all,  I think I have enough info I can move forward with for sure 

Edited Monday at 08:30 PM by gtx6970

[Leica007]

I have some striping tape (met gold) that I got from autozone.  I has two stripes: 4mm and 1.5mm on the roll, if the size will work, let me know how long a strip you need. 

[stitchdup]

nail art striping tape. its like rolls of 1mm bmf in various colours and very cheap. can be safely cleared over with auto paints too

[Chris V]

The Japanese brand Aizu Project offers a series of masking tapes as narrow as 0.4 mm. The quality is very similar to Tamiya masking tape.

[mcs1056]

On 10/27/2025 at 2:43 PM, gtx6970 said:

I will try to take 2 exacto blades in one tool in an attempt to make my own and see what it comes out to as well

 

You could set the tape roll on its side and butt up a single blade. Turn the tape roll against the blade to cut. 1/2 the thickness of the two-blade concept. 

[gtx6970]

Thanks all.

I have the 1/64th decals stripes ordered

 

Gonna be after the 1st of the year before I get started on this one

 

Ive gotta find the right color paint

 

fingers crossed it goes ok 

[gtx6970]

On 10/27/2025 at 7:24 PM, Leica007 said:

I have some striping tape (met gold) that I got from autozone.  I has two stripes: 4mm and 1.5mm on the roll, if the size will work, let me know how long a strip you need. 

Thanks for the offer

 

But too wide for my needs 

I have .5mm wide decals on order