![]() ![]() ![]() But I had two color coats and a clear coat on top of fine line tape for about an hour with no problems. I've only done one flame job, last week, I'm no expert. Notice the first statement I made concerning the blue tape. (Keep your base coats and clear coats as thin as possible to try to avoid this.) (3) You could have a little difficulty, including pealing back the orange by leaving the fine line tape on so long under several layers of paint. (2) You may have to apply another color between the pinstripe color and the orange to get the orange to be the shade you desire. (1) A barely noticeable (hairline) orange line between the pinstripe and the ghosting. If you do it this way the only undesirable things you might deal with are: Now you can spray in the ghosting and remove all of you tape including the fine line tape under the orange an clear the whole thing. Mask off the entire area outside of the pinstripe by making sure that you lap your pinstripe tape about one half the width. You will still be able to see the tape out for the flame under the orange. Tape off the outline you want then paint the whole thing the orange you mentioned and clear it lightly. Since your painting something as small a motorcycle why not paint everything that will have the flame on it the color of the pinstripe and clear it lightly. If I noticed it pulling lose I would stick it back down by placing some 3/4" tape on top of it, letting it hang over on the side that wouldn't be painted.Ī suggestion to endurance about the pinstripe. I found out that if I was very careful not to stretch it AT ALL around the curves and irregular surfaces it didn't pull lose. I just finished my first flame job on my truck using the blue tape. No disrespect meant by any of my ramblings, Rex.Ī note on the blue tape. Width Length Color Name 5/16 Custom Made Two Color Pinstripe Barbed Wire. (Soap box mode turned off.flame retardant suit on.) Specialty Striping - Barbed Wire, Flames, Tribal and Chevy Bowtie Prints. If more of us 'colored our squirrels purple,' (or put pinstripes on ghost flames) just think of the cool things we'd come up with. He looked up at the teacher and said, "This son-of-a-b*tch is gonna be purple." The teacher told him squirrels should be colored brown. There is a story about a grade school art student who was madly coloring a squirrel purple. ![]() Painting flames, IMHO, is simply another art form. I hate to use an over-used phrase, but they were thinking out of the box. I realize that I know very little about this compared to lots of you folks on the board, but I was an art teacher for a number of years, and I was constantly amazed at the wonderful stuff my students would come up with when they experimented. I've seen flames that were made up of only the pinstripe, with no flame color.just the base color inside. I recall seeing a set of pinstriped ghost flames in a book by Kosmoski (spelling) somewhere. ![]()
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