DIY How To Paint Stripes on a Car – 2 Two Tone Custom Paint Job

CollisionBlast.com – Hello Donnie Smith here, in this ARBN How2 Tip I’m going to show you how to two custom paint stripes on the car. This is basically just a two tone paint job with a stripe in the middle. However, the same methods can be used when painting bigger stripes, such as racing stripes. The car has already been prepped, masked, and primer sealer applied. Next we sprayed the color of the stripe. Once that is sprayed we can start masking where the strike will be. 3M makes fine line tape like this blue tape that works great for striping. Go around the car one panel at a time applying the blue tape. It is very important to attach the tape to one end of a panel and pull it down the entire panel at one time. Do not try to tape little sections at a time. This will always result in wavy and even lines. Once you have masked one panel, move to the next panel and stripe it. On this car the stripe is a quarter inch stripe around the entire car dividing the two colors; however, the back is slightly wider and it gradually narrows down to the quarter inch tape. Next we are going to spray the bottom color which is a high hiding color and it will cover the purple without a problem. Once the bottom color is sprayed and dried we will mask from the striped down. First up like 3/4 inch masking tape to outline the fine line tape to provide a wider stripped for masking then use 36 inch paper mask from the stripe down. On the top we’re using a silver, which is translucent and does not …