Prowler

[LIAW]

having fixed the seat panel paint (which was probably down to being 'flexed' too much) with a blast of the blue base coat, I set about marking out my design, I do this with chalk as it is easy to wipe away and re-do until you are happy with it, remember this is based on Tiger stripes,

once the design is ready in chalk I gradually replace the chalk lines with fine line automotive tape, in this case it is 3M 3mm tape, it is done by removing one chalk line at a time with a wet sponge and putting the tape in its place, this is another very time consuming job, it took me a whole week just this afternoon  ,

I did make the mistake of thinking I had enough fine line tape but I haven't, so I had to order a new roll, I will concentrate on the mudguard and seat panel until the new roll arrives

 

repaired paint damage, bodywork marked out, design replaced by tape

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the tape is quite flexible in that you can create reasonably tight curves with it but there is a limit before it breaks, therefore the tape lines can only go so far as to following the squiggley chalk lines, the 'inner' parts of tape joins will be cut once the full masking up has been done