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11-04-2008, 04:37 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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|  Tire tread paint masks?
Ok I have a new body on the way & am using the gatecrasher so with the surface area on the roof I wanted to do something different but I am not able to find a mask or transfer sheet with tire treads. I want to have a few diff patterns crisscrossing eachother. Like Krawler, Bogger & TSL patterns. Please let me know if you have any ideas? |
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11-04-2008, 04:48 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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Besides spending 20+ hours with my xacto & a roll of tape  |
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11-04-2008, 05:23 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: St. Louis (High Ridge)
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paint a tire and roll it across the inside of the body still wet?
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11-04-2008, 05:27 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Eveleth
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Well my idea was 20 hours with an x-acto and tape but I like the painted tire idea better. Altho you may get more satisfaction from the 20 hours....
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11-04-2008, 05:38 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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That was the first thing I thought of & tried it inside an old body........... it didn't workout so well because of the contours. This is what I was thinking of:  & after looking at it like this I think that it would be more than 20+ hours! I may be my sanity as well! |
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11-04-2008, 06:00 PM
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well, I figured pressing the tire into the contours would make it look like it had been driven on, but for using it as a patttern, it looks like a lot of exacto work unless you know someone with a vinyl graphics cutter to make a mask for you if nothing else, you could print a pattern out, tape it to a roll of masking tape with scotch tape, cut out all the detail, then use the masking tape as a stencil? found a couple of source pics     |
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11-04-2008, 10:09 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2004
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kevin107 on here has a plotter.
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11-05-2008, 01:08 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Bernardino Mountains
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I have a guy that does vinyl signs in town & have used him before for a window banner that I took him on cd, I will stop by & see what he could cut for me & if not I will have mike do it.
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