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Originally Posted by Onetouch
Sweet.
Could you please tell me, how to go about it when you do something like this. What I mean is. How do you prep it and how do you finish it. Hope you understand the question.
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Masked the truck and then I sanded the area with 600grit wet sandpaper, then wiped down with a de-greaser. I have a large roll of transfer tape (what decal stores use to put lettering on vehicles), very low tack and leaves no resude. So I lay down my transfer tape. (at this point you can easily draw right on the transfer tape and even erase too, until you get what you are looking for, then cut it out). In this case, the artwork was finished in Photoshop CS2 and then printed on overhead transparency film, and then I use a projector and size it up...
Once I am happy, I draw it right on the transfer tape and cut out. Then go in with Autoair transparent white and build up the highlights, this is alot of my time, it happens in many many layers of white, if you try to lay it on too think, Autoair gets grainy, so I lay it on thin and build up the highlights.
Once you have your highlights, remove the transfer tape. Then I went in with blue/black/brown mixture and brought forward some shadows. Then went in with the mixtures to get the reds, oranges and yellows. followup with reduced transparent black/brown mix for the spots and to really punch out the shadows. Did the eyes, finished the white, added some blue and whammo... done.
I wipe the whole thing again with a degreaser (its solvent based so it does not affect the water based paints that much... still have to take care and not wipe to hard)... I punched out the whole thing with color-matched black urothane paint. I cleared (uro) the immediate area, keeping to the sanded area 3 coats, mixed in blender 1:1 (this binds the new clear with the existing clear), went a bit past the sanded area and cleared again, then straight blender to mix the existing paint with my clear for a seamless finish.
Sorry for the long post... hopefully this helps!
or do you mean you mixed the clear with a hardener and mixed that mixture in a blender and the act of blending makes the mixture compatable and binding to the existing clear once applied?
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