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My brother has some airplanes and wants to put some striping and call letters on them. What type of vinyl should I use? Will metallic vinyl hold up? Do I need to edge seal? Would it be better to make a paint mask and paint it on? What kind of paint should I use? Any advise is greatly appreciated.
Diane
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In general, metallic cast vinyl doesn't hold up as well as traditional cast vinyls. Most metallic films that I'm aware of are rated for 5 years outdoors.
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Do it right..... mask, and paint. Having said that, Merlin's Magic P-51 raced at Reno and the number were 3m black "High Speed" vinylbut having said That, they were meant to come off after the race. Any time I did something permanent I did it in paint!
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there was a world setting land speed vehicle, had vinyl applied to it. on one of the runs the vinyl peeled off and they had to find a sign painter to paint all of the sponsors back on it.
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I had done stars and bars, US MARINES on an old DC-3 and cut the masks on the plotter. It doesn't Need to be done freehand, just done well. You'll be right!
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i just drove by a hanging lighted pan face sign i didi think in 2006. reason i say 2006 is i lost most of 2006 in my quicken due to a hard drive crash. the vinyl i use on it was SHINE-RITE from FELLERS. intermediate vinyl, red, exposed to direct southern sun............its 7 years old and is starting to show some cracks on the south face, north face is still perfect.
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