Painting stripes question

[molten]

Hello
Thinking about paintin a stripe down centre of my triumph spitfire.
How easy is this to do with celly?

Car is in primer, where would I start?

Thanks
scott

 

[malcolm]

Paint the whole car in one colour and use a stick on stripe. Vehicle signwriting places can supply the material.

 

[outofthefire]

Car is in primer, where would I start?

Personally i'd start at the front and work to the back

i'll get me coat

 

[tux]

I'm with Malcolm on this, sticky vinyl is so much easier and also easier to remove if you change your mind.

 

[Chipper]

Sign shop vinyl should be decent quality. I had a guy insist on using made-for-purpose tape stripes, even though I offered to paint them. First lot was thin (showed base colour through, though light orange stripe-tape wouldn't help), and the tack was very low, it wanted to lift and objected to even slight curves. Binned that, the next lot was solid colour, but quite thick.

You can get stripe masking tape ready-cut, it either has the stripe already cut out, or you slap it on and peel off the "stripe". No idea what it's like though.

3M plastic tape to mask & spray, or "The Edge" tape is supposed to be good too. Spray lightly, build gradually, to minimise paint build at tape edge.
The tapes comes in 3mm/6mm/12mm etc. So you can lay one edge, then tape next to it using tape of width equal to the stripe you want, then tape the other edge. So three parallel tapes. Pull middle one, squirt colour.