Learning to Pin-stripe

[gp02a0083]

Some of you guys may have seen my posts on facebook, but ill post some of my work and progress here regarding pin-striping and painting various items. The goal right now is to get some seat time only using my pin-striping kit that has been sitting on my shelf for almost a year now. Last year i used a few spare parts from my sisters wrecked civic and tested out some techniques for line thickness and curves.

Here is the mess i came up with:



Then i tried a free hand design, not this was my first time trying this , i dont think it came out all that bad.



First I wanted to do something a little bit fun and related to what im working on, some of you may know i have a 86 Oldsmobile cutlass 442 clone project that i have been working on for a long time now. Wanted to pay tribute to the olds and came up with this:




Just this morning I finished up this design, my father passed away last January, he was a master ASE mechanic for well over 30+ years. I took a few ASE tests with him for auto-body and paint. We made a great team.....

A few mistakes here and there but nothing that cannot be touched up or fixed

[Dr_Snooz]

Looks good! When you get it down, come over and repaint my factory stripes. They disappeared when the car got repainted and I miss the '80s touch they added.

[2drSE-i]

Not going to lie, that is pretty cool!

[cubert]

Thats awesome! I love watching people pinstripe stuff, its almost mesmerizing

[A18A]

+1 with that oldsmobile one!

[Dr_Snooz]

I'm just imagining all the places I could slop paint with a brush that long. LOL

[MessyHonda]

this is an art. nice to see old school cars with custom pin stripes