First try at custom graphics
 

Hey,


I've been looking at my plane for the past week thinking how boring the covering scheme was. I have been coming up with idea's of what I should do. Racing strips, pin striping, lettering, different curves and lines, and all that stuff. I was just going to give up when i was surfing on the net for some pic's when I came across the classic (but tasteful) "Mud Flap Girl". Thats right, I instantly knew that this was going on my plane.
So I printed her out and cut her out and then traced her on to this covering which sticks on with no heat ( I don't know what it's called ). After i got it all cut out I was wondering where I would put this babe. I hummed and hawed for a good ten minutes when I came up with the idea I would put one on each wingtip.
So I cut out another mud flap girl and I proceeded to put them on the wingtip's (quite chalenging to put them in the same place as the other one (this stuff is really sticky!). But after I was done i stood back, and thougt it looked pretty sweet, (even my mom likes it, LOL).

The reason there blue is because the fuse has alot of that blue in it. I'm also thinking of giving each of the ladies a name. One for each wingtip, what do you guys think?


Cheers!:)

P.S.

I will take better pic's in the morning.

RE: First try at custom graphics
 

They look good. Next time, try spraying a little Windex with Ammonia or dish detergent mixed with water on the covering before laying the graphic down. You can move them around to the right position, then squeegee the excess moisture out. Leave them to dry overnight and the glue will have set.
Dennis-

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Thanks for the tip:)

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I need a couple of them for my profile, whered you find em?

Fly-guy

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i found better quality pic's of "Mud Flap Girl" on google images. Just type in "Mud Flap Girl"

lol:)

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I got out and took some pictures of them again in daylight. Know that i've done this , i'm itching to do someting else for my plane...:)

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Good attempt Righty,

Try giving SuperCal a go http://www.supercaldecals.com/ its excellent its basically make your own water slide decals, so you can have anything even a nakid lady gracing your plane if u so wish :D

Its extremtly easy to use using a standard printer............ i found is great for my scale warbirds doing stuff like kill markings etc which i couldnt find anywhere :)

Hope thats of some help............

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Thats awesome!

I'm going to see if my LHS has this stuff.

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Man you gotta love the mudflap girl! It looks great!

later,
Tim Wiltse

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Well tonight i thought i thought i would take on a tougher task. Since my dad is a big fan of jaguar cars, and there logo is pretty nice i gave it a shot. It was alot harder then i thought it would be and it came out ok. I'm now debating on weather or not I should put another jaguar on the oposite side of the wing but in the same spot. I know it would look good but it tokk me long enough just to do the first one.

What do you guys think?

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Well I made a second one anyway![sm=devious.gif]

You like?

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Vey nice, I need a mud flpa girl quiclky, my profile will be peeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfffeeeccccccccct then.

Fly-guy

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I have a simular idea,I went and bought decal paper for my home printer and im going to try my hand at reproducing nose art,Hopfully if it works out I may try to sell some to the war bird group