Street Rodder Magazine Tour 55 Chevy

[Chas SCR]

Been working on this since Feb of this year and here is some of the work so far done.

http://public.fotki.com/Streetrodcustom/street-rodder-magazine/

[stewart]

Nice work. The flames look great.

STewart

[pharr7226]

Very nice flame work. I've wanted to try this method for a while, but I'm scared that I will cut the paint when I cut the tape.

[Chas SCR]

Ph, This is why you put a clear coat on before doing the laying out. This helps keep the blad from going into deep and getting to the other paint under it.

[pharr7226]

If you cut the clear coat, will the cut be visible?

[Chas SCR]

No as this would be where your paint line is. You do not want to cut the clear but you will scrap the clear when cutting through the tape. This tape I used is the new 3m tape from the auto body shop and its very thin and I just change the blad twice. What I do, I lay out the flames and then cut from the tip of the flame ( or lick) and go down to the front and make 1/2 circle of the lower part. Then do it on the other side of the lick same way. Take your time as this paint job of cutting it out was close to a 2hr job for me but at the same time I was doing my first ever "How To" using this and really hate doing flames on models.