Got to do some big flames

[kevsLX]

I was able to get this guy to let me flame his PT Cruiser, I've been wanting to try doing one for a long time. It was fun as hell and I could see doing stuff like this as a great way to make some nice money for a few days work (as long as you're working on top of good condition base clear paint).
I did the labor for free, he paid for all materilas and is letting me display some panels in his store, which is a paint and body supply house, as well as letting me slap some of my logo decals on the car.

 

[kustom paint workz]

good job especially on the size. just enough to customize the pt but not overpowering. sometimes thats the hardest thing to get right. once again great job

 

[kevsLX]

Thanks man, I would have loved to have gone nuts with the layout but I figured I better not get myself in over my head. He and his wife are real happy with it though, so that makes me happy.

 

[big stinkie]

I particularly like the flames near the front. Interesting way of using 'negative' space to make the maroon flame inside the silver flame. Mind if I steal that idea? ;-)

Say...how do you stick the picture in with your post? I've always had to add a link to a graphic. (I'm "computer know-how challenged," so bear with me.)

 

[kevsLX]

stinkie, I didn't come up with that idea, I sw a pic of a truck in Truckin' magazine that had that negative flame, so steal away

Truckin' magazine is a great source for flame and other graphic references.

To put a pic in a post, say your image is located at http://www.stinkiestuff.com/pic.jpg
If you take that URL, add {img} at the beginning of the URL, and {/img} at the end.
So it would look like {img}http://www.stinkiestuff.com/pic.jpg{/img}
But instead of using the {} brackets, use the [ ] brackets.
I had to use the {} brackets so it wouldn't actually try to load an image in the post.

 

[Dave@Paintwerks]

Cool Flames. How do you layout the negative flames ? I find it hard to get a clean, smooth shape right to the tips. Did you lay it out second and respray the base color?

Thanks
Dave

 

[kevsLX]

Thanks Dave.
On the negative flames, I just taped out my silver flames first, then came back and taped out another set of flames on top of them to make the negatives, and just filled the taped area in with sheet mask. So, all I had to spray was the silver and when I untaped everything it left the purple flames there.
Kind of hard to explain but it's real easy, I should have taken some pics while I did it.