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Painting on a car?
April 2, 2021 at 7:04 pm
So, my father just commissioned me to design and apply a decal to his car. It's a Plain Jane, so, the idea he wanted was like a woodplane, with like Jane Jetson sitting on it. And I am pretty sure he wants me to paint this straight onto the hood.
I'm pretty sure this is something I could do, from the designing and application standpoint. I'm a painter, a cartoonist, and I've done murals before but that was with oil paints.
However, I am not a professional car painter and I have no idea what I would use to paint this thing. Probably not oils? I'm not even sure if this is possible to do with paintbrush and straight onto the metal of the car?
If there is someone who knows cars and knows decorating cars can tell me something about this? I am of the mind to refuse because that's not something I'm trained in and I'm not comfortable just taking what I want to this beautiful old car and making a mess. So, is my father crazy for asking me to do this?
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 2, 2021 at 7:33 pm
We have some car guys here but I don't know if any are versed in the painting of.
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 2, 2021 at 7:47 pm
(April 2, 2021 at 7:41 pm)Five Wrote: (April 2, 2021 at 7:33 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: We have some car guys here but I don't know if any are versed in the painting of.
Any of them would likely have 10x more knowledge than I do. I am not a car guy. At all.
I think it's pretty cool that your dad wants you to design a custom design for his car.
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 2, 2021 at 8:16 pm
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 2, 2021 at 8:42 pm
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 2, 2021 at 9:19 pm
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Do you have digital painting software? You can design something on the computer and have it printed on vinyl and applied to the hood. You can use urethane paint and an airbrush or two to apply your design directly to the hood if you don't have software. Look up "vehicle wraps" in you area to see what's available in vinyl. The beauty of the vinyl (if that is actually what it is) would be that you would have the whole design done and approved before the artwork went on the vehicle. I had a '68 Buick Skylark hot rod that I was going to paint with "true flames", but after inheriting another money pit ('70 Chevy 3/4T truck that we use to tow our travel trailer) I sold it before I got that far. I've painted complete vehicles and portions thereof in the past, but that airbrush work would have been a first for me.
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