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Customer brought in a detached gas tank on a motorcyle. Thought it would be easy to adhere yellow flame (Roland vector art) air brush red tips and outline with black oneshot. Trouble is hard to put vinyl down over a large the concurve shape. Thought about masking it and painting it but same problem with masking. How does one put down vinyl over a rounded shape. Vinyl crinkles.Any motorcyles or pinheads might give me some pointers. This is one of those jobs where I didnt charge a whole lot. But self learning is worth it.
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-------------------- Signs Solutions, Inc. Matthew Rossi Midlothian, VA, 23113 signsol@earthlink.net Posts: 139 | From: Midlothian, Virginia | Registered: Nov 1998
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For masking, weeding and spraying it yourself, check with one of your suppliers for Spraylat Signstrip. You brush the liquid on, it dries to form a cuttable, weedable masking. It has been used for decades for decorating sign faces. If you know someone in your area who does backsprayed faces, he likely will have a can on hand and may provide you with the couple of ounces you would need.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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There are actually several ways to do this. these are for painting and must be prepped for paint to begin with.
One is to use a fluid mask which is sprayed on, cut with an exacto and then painted.
Another way is to use a Stabillo to draw your flames, then use either blue plastic 1/8" tape fine line, finesse edge or 06343 3M crepe tape to layout your flames, either of the tapes work because the flames will be outlined.
There is a clear vinyl mask out there by Art-tool which is stretchable and made for motorcycle sheet metal. This stuff works well and may be able to be cut on your computers cutter, I dunno, haven't tried it yet.
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