Editing How to pinstripe your car

== Preamble ==
A comprehensive guide to pin striping your ride, showing you the paint, equipment, laying out and different techniques used in the art of pin striping. Pin striping is accomplished by years and years of practice.

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== Paint and equipment ==


[[PAINT]]

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What to look for when your buying paint is a paint that is rich in pigment, has consistent array of colors, applies easily, dries hard and durable, and will stand up to the Test of Time.

[[Equipment]]

BRUSHES

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TAPE and MASKING


GUIDES and RESTS

== Layout ==

For beginners, the best way to start is by drawing a grid of one inch squares on a plain piece of paper. You can make this as big or small as you want, a good size would be about 16 X 24 inches. Draw a defining center line with a darker pen right down the Center of the paper, this is what you will work off of. Next, get a piece of clear acrylic
sheet of approximately the same size or slightly larger, this will be your working paper. Tape the lined sheet to a solid working table and then tape the acrylic sheet to the table too. Using a non permanent marker, practice drawing lines that are equal distant off of the center line. Start with a large vertical teardrop in the middle and work off of that. If you goof up, just erase with paper towel and start over. Designs should be clean and simple to start, and with practice you can expand from there until you feel comfortable enough to advance to paint.

== Technique ==