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Old 12-31-2015 | 07:55 PM
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OK now thing get interesting. I am laying everything out so I will be able to paint a 1/8 inch line with HOK Metalume (looks like aluminum) around all the bands without having to mask specifically for the 1/8 inch line. In this picture you can see how I airbrushed the Metalume all the way around the outside tape line, but you will see it doesn't go up against another tape line. It just fades off. You will also see where the single piece of tape was, there is now a Metalume band where the tape was. What I did was just use the tape as a marker and just shot the paint as I lifted the tape. Sounds confusing, but it should make sense.

Now you can see the tape in the center has been pulled.

The center section will be blue. I now mask back over the pinstripe line just a hair so when I pull the center section of tape you will see just a little bit of the pinstripe showing that the blue in the center will cover. I then butt another piece of 1/8 inch tape up against the tape line for the center section. That 1/8 inch tape creates the pinstripe between the blue center section and the yellow band next to it.

So when I pull the tape, the 1/8 inch pinstripe will be revealed.
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Last edited by Portlandflyer; 12-31-2015 at 09:29 PM.