26 ft American Offshore Paint and Graphics
07-08-2014, 04:26 PM
#109
Good lord that is something that will make everyone on the water jealous. I have two questions though:
1) What is used either in the paint or over it to keep it from wearing away is it skirts across the water at speed?
2) how did he get the pinstriping to evenly match on both sides? I've done many cars with taped off flame jobs by laying down the pinstriping for the design, covering it with paper, tracing the lines with a pin wheel, then flipping the paper to the other half and the designs perfectly matched, but I see it being a bit tedious to do on a large project like this. I'm just curious as to how he did it.
It's amazing work though. Gives me something to save my allowance up to have done.
1) What is used either in the paint or over it to keep it from wearing away is it skirts across the water at speed?
2) how did he get the pinstriping to evenly match on both sides? I've done many cars with taped off flame jobs by laying down the pinstriping for the design, covering it with paper, tracing the lines with a pin wheel, then flipping the paper to the other half and the designs perfectly matched, but I see it being a bit tedious to do on a large project like this. I'm just curious as to how he did it.
It's amazing work though. Gives me something to save my allowance up to have done.
07-13-2014, 09:16 PM
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He should not have to put anything in the paint to keep it from wearing down. General rule for paint is you need to find out if the paint passed the aircraft (I can't remember the name of the test) test. The paint will not strip and peel unless it's a low grade low solids paint. I would doubt that both sides of the boat are exactly the same, probably very close but that's a pretty complex paint job! It really does look killer!
