Hey guys, I was wondering if you could confirm the assumptions I’ve made based on threads from various searches I’ve done. The assumptions concern how to go about putting a stripe like the ones pictured here on a board. (images used with no permission at all)
From what I’ve read, it would be completely acceptable to just tape off the foam and spray on the stripe with standard acrylic hardware store spray paint, then glass over with whatever tints wanted and the stripe will still be visible because that’s what hit the foam first. Does this sound about right?
I’m aware that you can just glass normally and then spray after the sanding coat, but the process of applying a krylon clear coat every month or so doesn’t really appeal to me. What about under the sanding coat (on the post lammed board where you can still feel the weave, just to avoid confusion), would that be a decent alternative?
"What hits the foam first" is in referance to pouring resin onto glass and foam. Not painting and then tinting over the paint. but if you were to paint the foam then tint over with a lighter shade of tint, you would still see your paint under the tint job, those boards you showed may have been done with a lam/logo, kind of hard to see. you could do the paint on the sand coat then gloss coat it but I wouldnt use krylon use something waterbased then shoot a matte over it then gloss and polish shit,,,,,, mask it, roller on tempra paint then shoot the matte and gloss it
the blue board was done in the lam ,, you can see little bleed into the white
Color lam, hotcoat, sand. Tape off the general area where the stripe will be and sand again to 220. Mask off and paint it with a good quality acrylic like Duracolor. Use a straightedge and razor blade to scrape off the paint along any ragged or bleed areas on the stripe when the paint is dry. Clear gloss over it. Or, you can lam 4 oz. clear over the painted areas, hotcoat, and sand the edges to blend in. The latter is used if it’s a sand finish. Unless you pinline (really wide) the stripe, there’s no way to get a clean edge if you try and do as part of the lamination.