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Description
Craig Fraser takes you step-by-step through the painting of of two hot-selling helmet designs using freehand masking and loose-shield techniques. A must for automotive painters! You'll learn automtive urethanes, House of Kolor system of base coats and clear coats, surface prep, including scuffing with a Scotch-Brite pad, masking off the helmet, removing fingerprints and other marks, laying out graphics on a helmet, use of blue fine-line tape for helmet graphics, blue fine-line 'cheap tricks' tribal flame pattern, 'Devil tongues', discussion of negative and positive psace, working with a lazy susan, importance of reference points on a helmet, excellent reference sources, use of green 3/4-inch tape, use of 3/4-inch masking tape, mutli-tasking, use of pre-cleaner, painting a visor, using adhesion prmoter, proper air pressure, applying a top coat, working with the Iwata RG-2 spraygun, mixing ratios of urethane paints, sketching with an airbrush, creating a sense of depth, using medium reducer, 'Tinting in', using adhesive vinyl, using metallic paints, safety precautions, using opaques and transparents, when not to use fine-line tape, and how to pinstripe, including paletting the brush, pulling long, straight lines, paint consistency, slash striping, pulling the brush, pushing the brush, urethane striping paint, using temperature reducers, and drying times.
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