Gave pinstriping a try today

I've been playing around with pinstriping on my spare time (wich isn't much)

But today I found a victom.........I mean "friend" that was willing to let me pinstripe his taho

I started by washing the vehical and whiping down the work area with alchole.

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I laid down blue save releas tape, and 1/4" finline tape for the curvs as a guid.

NOTE: The tape is there only as a guid, and not as masking. The will not be touching the tape at any time. (except once, I'll explain later)

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Notice that sharp point in the front, that is the only place were the paint touched the tape.

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The colors I used are dark green and metalic silver.......both lettering enamels from 1shot

I started out using a 00 mack brush, but it started falling apart on me........I think the glue over the string that holds the hairs in place may have desalved or something........I had hairs comming loos during cleaning........I may have to find another way of cleaning the brushes.....I have been using med. reducer. :dunno:

I fineshed up using my 2nd brush wich is a 0000 Xcalaber, and is ment for shorter finer lines.......to make it work I had to use a bit more pressur for a brouder line, and I also was reloading more often.........I will be ordering 2 compleat sets of Xcalaber brushes so something like this won't happen again :uh:

It took a bit over an hour to do the side, and a bit longer then that to do the tailgate wich had names in it, but sence I got the vehical late, there wasn't enough light for picture.......but I will be finishing it tomorow and of course I'll be taking more pictures.......

I have to tell you guys, that it's a whole other ball game going from practicing on fenders to doing a whole car.......My hat goes off to the pro's who make it seem so easy

Though I was pleased with the overall outcome of my first job.........it was obvious to me that I need alot more experiance :happysad:


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