So I've been racking my head on how to make a template to paint sponsor logos on a race car that's repeatable. At most just two colors. Best I could come up with was doing a screen printing frame but not sure how that'd work spraying paint and cleaning while still reusing in the future. Thoughts?
In reply to Stampie:
It's not repeatable but the guy that lettered our stock car would cut masks from vinyl like the reverse of a decal, spray the color and peel them off.
Painting logos? Everything's in vinyl now. Heck often the base color/pattern is vinyl and the logos are vinyl on top of that!
In reply to Wall-e:
I thought about that and even looked into getting a vinyl cutter so I could just cut more as needed but on the two color logos I'd be worried about the first color peeling off with the second vinyl.
In reply to GameboyRMH:
If you haven't noticed yet I tend to do things a little different from the rest. Usually a bad thing but I sometimes come up with something I'm really proud of.
If you're doing it just to be different then +1 for the disposable vinyl method Wall-e mentioned. It's fairly cheap and will look professional. You may have to do it in multiple stages with drying time in between.
3M makes a masking vinyl that you can cut on a plotter specifically for this task. Almost nobody except the serious high end shops that do flames use it. Cheap as chips though.
Airbrush frisket - it's a vinyl mask - cut out shapes with a razor knife and paint. I did the bavarian flag theme on my challenge car this way. Frisket is slippery - if you're painting on a vertical surface you have to be careful about runs in the paint.
I did this one with masking tape and spray paint:
Repeatable? Well, with enough patience....
if you want to be able to reuse it cardboard stencil and plasticdip.
I guess I should have added that some of the lines are 1/8 inch wide. I think I'm just going to experiment with the screen print method and see what happens. Worse case is I can make some t-shirts. That just gave me an idea ... Screen print our own t-shirts for the challenge next year. Should be much cheaper than the $20 a pop shirts I did this year. Two birds ... one stone.
They make very low tack vinyl for making stencils for craft stuff. I haven't looked to see how much it is, but it's out there.
Don't be a pansy. Go buy sign paint and a selection of brushes. Masking and spraybombs always looks like masking and spray bombs.
In reply to Streetwiseguy:
OK I'm a pansy. I'm talking about doing the same logo 4 times on the car. It'd take me days to do it by hand.
copy logo onto clear use over head projector/// sketch lines at night ////// paint on brother
Stampie wrote: I guess I should have added that some of the lines are 1/8 inch wide. I think I'm just going to experiment with the screen print method and see what happens. Worse case is I can make some t-shirts. That just gave me an idea ... Screen print our own t-shirts for the challenge next year. Should be much cheaper than the $20 a pop shirts I did this year. Two birds ... one stone.
I have a client who can print shirts for $10 each from any logo you provide including photographs capturing all colors. Price includes the shirt. Slightly more expensive if you wanted it printed on a black shirt. She'll do small batches as few as 5 shirts.
She can print beer Huggieslike I passed out at the challenge for about $2 each. Can also do embroidered logos on golf shirts and baseball caps. You supply the artwork and she will perfectly duplicate it
Stampie wrote: In reply to Streetwiseguy: OK I'm a pansy. I'm talking about doing the same logo 4 times on the car. It'd take me days to do it by hand.
Just think of the mad pinstriping skills you could develop! You could be the next low budget Von Dutch.
Any shop with a vinyl cutter could do stencils for you. Except mine, I'd have to order the stencil material
There's a vendor in NC that did some fantastic shirts for me in 2014 for less then $5 a pop. Included front, rear and sleeve screening.
Was talking to my friend that'd be helping me do it. 30 minutes into the conversation he remembers that he has access to a vinyl cutter at work for free. Think that's what we'll do.
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