Help Please Mustang Stripes?

[Robert Lambie]

Not an easy car to do a while back mate, but today its much easier…
Simply line the vehicle using knifeless tape or wrap-cut, then apply a solid ban of white across the whole thing and simply pull the filament tape through the vinyl cutting it into the required strips on the vehicle itself.

Here is a mustang I did "the old fashioned way" 11 years ago.

https://www.uksignboards.com/topic15288.html

[Dean Poulter]

Hi Rob

Thanks for the fast reply I did actually get the wrap cut out just before I decided enough was enough!!

so would you tape all the line or just main ones and then install pin stripes afterwards?

The mustang looks really good in the pic must of taken a fair while.

Cheers Dean

[Robert Lambie]

quote Dean Poulter:

so would you tape all the line or just main ones and then install pin stripes afterwards?

The mustang looks really good in the pic must of taken a fair while.

As I said, this was done 11 years ago so there was no clever filament tapes back them. But yes, it did take much longer than i predicted due to distortion and line alignment issues.

Side stripes were easy, cut in plotter and applied in one go in minutes. the rest was a pain!! 🙄

If i were you ide use the filament tape on the thick lines and just cut the thin ones on a machine and apply by hand.

[Daniel Evans]

A little trick i think could work.

Apply the wrapcut tape as rob suggested to get your thick lines.

Now let’s say there is a gap of 20mm between the thick lines and the pinstripe, how about cutting a 20mm and your pinstripe on the plotter, then butting up the vinyl to the thick lines then once happy, remove the 20mm vinyl, this way you should keep the same gap perfectly down the car?

All depends on if the thick lines are straight i suppose.