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Originally Posted by dependencies
if its not a stupid question, how did you decide a pattern to the stripes
did you have a pattern to mask around?
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I studied all the zebra striped cars I could find doing a Google image search. Many I did not like because they made the same mistake I did 25 years ago when making a tiger striped van, got cheap and had them spaced too far apart.
The second step was printing actual photos of zebra and giving them some study, looking for patterns and looking closely at their faces too.
I then drew a simple line drawing of my car and filled it in with a felt tipped pen. I looked at the hood too, not just the side of the car, transitions between the planes are very important.
Lots of masking tape, cardboard, newspapers and X-acto blades for trimming and fine tuning. Two days of laying tape, if I did not like something, I just pulled it off and re-did it prior to painting it with spray cans.
Tips:
1. Don't spay in 15 mph winds like I did.
2. You can go cheap on the paint, but use good 3M tape - I did not as it was a pain.
3. Don't spay any cars, houses, animals or stupid people in the way.
4. Wear a mask, gloves and eye protection if you can.