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Hello all, I have a body that is painted white on the side and black on the top. The black has left a ragged edge where the paint bled under the tape. It's in a straight line on a flat surface with a gradual curve. (top of a truck hood)

I was thinking of taking vinyl pinstriping tape and placing on top of the black right where the sharp edge is supposed to be and then lightly wet sanding the edge trying not to sand through the white to "knock" off the ragged edge.

I was wondering if someone here might have a better suggestion?

Guest Dr. Odyssey
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Sounds like a good idea to me.

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how about a small spear/stripe in an accenting color along the bodyside to the hood??

after you smoooove it out of course...

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how about a small spear/stripe in an accenting color along the bodyside to the hood??

after you smoooove it out of course...

Hey Dick, it's actually gets a black pinstripe outline. The problem is that the edge of the painted black is too far towards the rounded edge of the hood where it drops down the side. The pinstripe is supposed to be where the edge of the black panel currently resides.

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Ben as light sanding like you had in mind might work. Next time to AVOID bleed through, spray some clear along the tape edge and then after 20 minutes spray your second color. If there's any bleed through, it will be? CLEAR!

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Paintedge.jpg

First question is enamel or lacquer second is has it been cleared? I agree with sanding with lacquers or acryllics repainting and blending if enamel or cleared....

If its Enamel give a shout out to old Man Donny Yost....goes as "lone wolf 15" HE is the enamel expert I think he could answer that.

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Ben as light sanding like you had in mind might work. Next time to AVOID bleed through, spray some clear along the tape edge and then after 20 minutes spray your second color. If there's any bleed through, it will be? CLEAR!

Hi Nick, yes, I agree and that is what I do when I paint. However, I didn't paint this one. I traded the same cab and hood (I mastered them) to a friend that had just done the same paint job and had the Ford colors. Everything turned out really nice other than the edges of the black on the top of the hood. :(

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Paintedge.jpg

First question is enamel or lacquer second is has it been cleared? I agree with sanding with lacquers or acryllics repainting and blending if enamel or cleared....

If its Enamel give a shout out to old Man Donny Yost....goes as "lone wolf 15" HE is the enamel expert I think he could answer that.

I think it's single stage automotive paint. Not sure if it's enamel or laquer though. I'll have to check with my friend that painted it. I know he mixed it off Ford paint codes.

Guest Sickfish
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Here's another idea... Polish it off... Try a fine compound like Meguiars No 1 Fine cut... Works for me... It may take a little longer than sanding but less of a chance of sanding through.

Cliffo

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I just bought a lot of the super thin pinstripping tapes from Model Expo.

I love them!!

http://www.modelexpo...ITEMNO=LOT06-02

I did a search for "tape" at their main page.

Cool, I've been looking for a place to buy some really thin pinstriping tape! Thanks Gregg! What I could really use right now would be a tiny black pinstripe with a Wimbledon White pinstripe right next to it. I know that probably doesn't exist though. :(

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Ben; just bust out a pinstriping brush! Drop a tape line below the black/white split; and run the stripng brush right along it, using the black...........Matt

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Ben; just bust out a pinstriping brush! Drop a tape line below the black/white split; and run the stripng brush right along it, using the black...........Matt

That would clean the edge up but the edge is already too far outward, towards the sides of the hood. There is supposed to be a white pinstripe at the edge of the black and a black pinstripe next to the white to where it looks like the black panel has a bordering pintripe. The problem is that the black pinstripe itself is supposed to lay on top of the hood, not down along the side.

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The only way to get a clean, crisp edge is to make a new edge, either by cutting through the existing black paint layer just above the existing edge or by sanding down the exisitng colors, re-taping, and re-spraying the paint with better masking. You'd not only have to have a perfect guide egde, but you'd need to have a perfectly steady hand to lay down a straight, sharp edge doing it by hand with a brush.

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Another product I've found that is EXCELLENT for pinstriping is a brand of tape called Aizu tape. It is the same "kabuki" tape as Tamiya, which is VERY resistant to bleed under in my experience (it is the only tape I ever use now). I believe it is made in 2.5mm, 1.5mm 1mm and .4mm widths (and perhaps a couple others as I only have the first three sizes). Hobbylink Japan (hlj.com) has it and so does Starshipmodeler.com.

http://starshipmodeler.biz/shop/index.cfm/product/1706/micron-masking-tape-25mm-x-5m.cfm

Even though Starship Modeler doesn't cater to car guys, they have some very cool items and tools from Japan that can be used to work wonders on car models. And they ship VERY quick as well. I've used them for years and they are first rate. The reason why these yellow tapes work so well is they are rice paper based and very fine. The problem with most bigger tapes is they are pretty rough and thick, leading to bleed under in spots. Burnish the yellow Tamiya based tapes down and you get nice and crisp edges. I used the three sizes on this project I did over the past two years (it isn't a car, but it gets the point across):

mnrkrfin2.jpg

Those orange and gray stripes (and the black rudder stripes on the tail), they are not decals. I had to mask and paint all that and the tape worked like a charm with no bleed under or jagged edges.

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