Hey all!
So I'm pretty new to painting....painted my first bicycle frame 2 weeks ago and it came out pretty nice! Now that I've had some time in the booth, I'm loaded with questions and this forum rules!
One thing I couldn't really find an exact answer to was about vinyl stenciling...
To create a layered look, I created a stencil of an octopus using a very nice vinyl cutter. I sprayed a base coat of black, and then topped it with pearlescent. I then applied the vinyl and peeled the backing...now the tentacles were pretty thin and the stencil small (bicycles have a much smaller area for applying things and the areas are always round! maybe thats part of the issue haha)....so when I pulled off the backing, a lot of the little tentacles didn't want to stick. I had also created a larger tentacle to wrap around the chainstay, which also didn't want to stick around the edges. Since it was wrapped, I tried cutting it on the underpart to get it to lay nice and flat and tight. Once I got all of them to stick well enough, I started painting the red top coat. In the middle of painting though, the stencil started to raise up and I lost a few arms, plus an edge of the larger stencil on the chainstay.
Boo.:sillyme:
So my questions are these:
Is there a trick to getting the vinyl to adhere better? Is the backing paper I'm using too adhesive and not allowing the vinyl to release? Could part of the issue have been the pearlescent?
Even though it's not perfect, it still came out nice! But, ya know, I want it to be perfect hahaha
So I'm pretty new to painting....painted my first bicycle frame 2 weeks ago and it came out pretty nice! Now that I've had some time in the booth, I'm loaded with questions and this forum rules!
One thing I couldn't really find an exact answer to was about vinyl stenciling...
To create a layered look, I created a stencil of an octopus using a very nice vinyl cutter. I sprayed a base coat of black, and then topped it with pearlescent. I then applied the vinyl and peeled the backing...now the tentacles were pretty thin and the stencil small (bicycles have a much smaller area for applying things and the areas are always round! maybe thats part of the issue haha)....so when I pulled off the backing, a lot of the little tentacles didn't want to stick. I had also created a larger tentacle to wrap around the chainstay, which also didn't want to stick around the edges. Since it was wrapped, I tried cutting it on the underpart to get it to lay nice and flat and tight. Once I got all of them to stick well enough, I started painting the red top coat. In the middle of painting though, the stencil started to raise up and I lost a few arms, plus an edge of the larger stencil on the chainstay.
Boo.:sillyme:
So my questions are these:
Is there a trick to getting the vinyl to adhere better? Is the backing paper I'm using too adhesive and not allowing the vinyl to release? Could part of the issue have been the pearlescent?
Even though it's not perfect, it still came out nice! But, ya know, I want it to be perfect hahaha