I decided to paint some stripes on my car like the kind that were put on 92 Camaros. I found a bunch of kits with the stick on stripes, but I want to actually paint them since I am repainting the car anyways.

Is there a kit sold with a stencil of at least the hood stripes? I can tape all the strait parts, but the style of stripes on the hood could get rough. Any help is much appreciated.

 

Duct Tape, And Krylon.

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don't use duct tape. get some good painters tape (for lack of better term). should be blue and kind of stretchy. don't stretch it when you put it on. come up with something new though. plain stripes have been done all to often. and pick a good color combo. i almost went with just different shades of red but decided on the black. check sig for more pics.

 

There is a green masking tape by 3m.. cant remember what its called but i found it at walmart while picking up bondo, etc.

It leaves the straightest lines I've ever seen with tape.

 

body store sell pin stripping tape. starts as thin as 1/4 of an inch and moves on up, very easy to use for curved lines as well. use things like that to start make sure you like how it looks and then tape off of that. look at my following thread. has picks of my stripes and it will give you an idea.

 

Lots of ways to do it, the way that works for me is to put a strip of tape down the centerline of the car, and peasure your lines off of that out to each side for the width of each stripe. Dont forget to leave the body colored pinstripe around each stripe to break up the diesgn, it makes it look more finished instead of using a roller to do it. Use painters paper instead of newspaper and dont tape it directly on the edge of the stripe. for a clean break you need to tape your paper to the PAINTERS TAPE that makes the outside edge, this prevents bleed through and also, you can tape your paper to the painters tape with regular tan colored masking tape, which is stickier and a lot cheaper than painters tape. ONLY BUY green or blue 3M tape, not the budget brand stuff. and never tape on the panel with anything but this stuff.
ou can use a laser level to get your line straight but if your centerline is in the mathmatical center of the hood and all your measurements are identical it should be right.
You could always make a cardboard template of the stripe, measure out its placement, tape it on, tape and paper around it, leaving a pinstripe around it of course, then flip the template and use it on the other side. take various measurements and a lot of eyeballing before you paint though and YES this is 2 ways to do it...and no it cant be done in a half hour like Foose does on TV

 

Thanks for all the replies guys. Finally getting a chance to respond now. I definitely want to do silver heritage edition stripes. I think the roof and deck lid stripes should be fairly strait forward. I will probably just run the tape that has peal out sections for the strait line stripes.

It is still going to be kinda tricky to do the hood sripes the way I want them though. I want to do the kind that ends before the end of the hood and start thin and get wider. Basically, I want to match the stripes that came on these cars in 92.

I was thinking of using a set of the stick on hood stripes as a template. Maybe just make a stencil with them and use that to paint them on? I am refering to these just incase there is any confusion: http://moderndaymuscle.com/inc/sdetail/884. I just don't believe that I have the skill to form the stripes by hand just using tape. Maybe if it was one, but no way I am getting two of them to look the same. I know my limits there

Here is a picture of the style just to be sure we are all on the same page:

 

have tried to call some of these places that make the stick on heritage stripes, i'm sure they could make you a stencil. if you really think about it, what you need is what they throw out when making the kits. imagine the hood above as a sheet of red vinyl what you want is the red part which is what would be left over when making the stripe (black part)......so its a red stencil stuck on a black car.

 

lol, your local auto body supply store will hook you up with the proper tape. My father uses the blue tape,probably made by 3M.