so yeah, ive just recently gotten into stripping. not amazing yet, but practicing.

this is one of your fearless leaders finish panel.

Ivan, you like?

if anyones local, and wants some stripping, im all for it. let me know.

pretty dope man.
I might have to send you my finish panel after I paint it.

Ivan, i just got two brushes today, and 2 more are coming tomorrow it says.

i need to break them in a bit before using them on your panel, so bear with me. it wont be done tomorrow. but soon.

heres a tester of 1 new brush...... Xcalibur 00.... so far its been great.


( freehand, kind of wobbly..... but yeah it was just testing the brush out/ breaking it in. you can see on the top section the hairs started to lay better. )

so awesome. keep doing this stuff.

i cant wait to see my panel, its gonna look rad.

what do you think?

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang i cant wait till i can put it on my car!\


looks rad, seth!

glad to hear you like it

its still drying. so be patient. should be all clean and dry tomorrow

its goin on my car friday night!

So did you pencil below it then paint over, and going to erase after it dries?

Also where and how much are decent pinstriping brushes, I've always wanted to try, but figured it's one of those things that if you halfass the tool, your best results are still going to be that halfassed.

water soluable pencil. Stablio pencil, wipes off with water

Eastwood.com has the basic starter ones, there about $15-20 each.

Mack series 10 striping brush. Start with that. Get a book and start practicing.

Funny thing I was just thinkng about while staring at ivans finish panel. I drew ivans thing a week or so back. I did the red fender and another buddies car in the last few days and the style us completely different. It's crazy howmy designs have changed in weeks. It's weird when I look at ivans panel it isn't how I would design it today.

sweet.

robby showed me his rear window too. i really like that one.

see thats what i mean, i did that one last night. on the fly

so weird how my style is changing over days. now i kind of wish i would have done ivans different. but i like it in its own way.






i dont like the xmas tree on top. it needs to come down with the other line. oh well.....

im going to keep adding/ modifying robbies, see how it turns out. i have ideas

some stripping i did while at the shop today.

i saw that tonight!

you are really getting bettter, if you want to practice some more my car is your canvas, seth.

I LOVE that last back window piece. I would love it if next time I out there I could get you to do something similar on my window.

just learned, the paint doesnt like to stick to the window when it rains.

some of my back window peice came off in one line haha. so yeah. dont know. im not fucking with it, and maybe some of the rest of it will survive.

if not. just do it again.

damn dude your awesome at this shit. keep it up

wicked striping, I have been giving it a go but its hard to get good striping paint here in nz. maybe one day I will be able to get some hot shot paint:)

not 100% sure but i think seth may have ordered his stuff. i dont think he comes on here too often but ill find out for you.

doh just realized your around the world. different laws may apply. im sure you should be able to get a handle on some decent paint though.

yeah sorry i dont frequent this forum much.

and robbie i guess doesnt either since he asked me like a week ago about this and hasnt posted. haha

hot shot is US based, but im pretty sure that someone in NZ has to offer it online. i would send you some but shipping would probably make it not worth it for you. I was thinking about this question the other day, since the original use for these brushes is "touch up" you can use "auto paint" in them.
but it wont have a gloss, and you will have to only use the base color, as the clear might kill the brush.

but hotshot is a "sign" paint. go to a sign supplier, or sing painter in your area and ask them what they use. they will have an oil based enamel that will probably work for you, but you might have to ad some things to it to make it flow better. the sing guys will probably have some tips for that.

smoothie, is a nice flow enhancer
turpentine also works, but makes the paint dry faster

so id say drop into a sign shop and talk to someone. they might have some suggestions that will work in your area

thread resurrection



Helmets are hard, I kind of just went for it. and the design is a bit woobly, but oh well, work in progress. adding more white/ adding red later.



redoing robertos xmas tree ( no longer a tree ), still work in progress



Fender play time, I really dont know where I was going with this one. just started making lines and seeing where my brain wanted to take it.

I think its great abstract, but as far as cohesive pin striping, meh not so much haha

yay i like this. i watched teh helmet get did. wayyy down the road when (and if) i paint my car, i would love some white striping done and i would gladly pay you.

picked up some "peacock blue" its a nice light blue, and straight black. and some smoothie. then got to work on the helmet some more, i like where some of its going, other parts still confuse me. and im the one doing it haha


im always down harry, its all practice for me

once you took the time to do the grid, it looked 100x better.

yeah, only problem, its hard to grid the helmet




I actually shaved the pin strip off that did earlier, with a knife. well some of it. still cleaning it up

I shaved my helmet guys!

lobe it

took the swooshes out, i have no idea what they were doing. added some more, and started on the jaw

added some more this morning