So next up were the stripes. As previously mentioned, i'd decided to make these from vinyl rather than painting them, so I bought two viper stripe kits. the silver one is supposed to cover the full length of the car, whereas the grey stripes are a bonnet only kit. This seemed to be the cheapest way of getting the raw materials I needed.
First job was to clean the areas to be covered with traffic film remover in order to strip off all the polish i'd spent so much time putting on it
. Then cut a length of silver for the bonnet, line up the bottom edge, and hold it in place with some masking tape........
I then roughly marked out the top edge with a pencil, deliberately drawing slightly high.
I then removed it and cut to size on the table, also using it as a pattern afterwards to cut the piece for the other side........
Next is to wet the area and, after removing the backing paper, wet the sticky side of the vinyl. You should add a spot of washing up liquid to the water to aid positioning but not much or it will reduce the adhesion. Then put the vinyl in place, line up and squeegee out the water and any air bubbbles with a cloth. Sunshine is supposed to dry everything out and finish the job, but in it's absense I carefully used a hot air gun........
The rest of the side was measured out in one piece and the bottom edge lined up...........
I then pencilled in the end and top profile along with the door edges. Before removing to cut out on the table I marked where the bottom edge sits. Once cut the areas were wetted and each piece refitted and dried out.........
As you can see, it's getting quite late now, so the grey squares will have to be cut out and stuck on tomorrow to give a chequered flag effect at the back.
