How to paint lace???

Hi guys I'm interested in learning how to paint lace patterns, I'm looking to do it on my 55 Chevy. Any tips trick? Best place to get lace? Maybe a step by step? Even pics would be awesome!

 

not to hard, did alot back in the day with lacquer . i think base paint would work. buy some old table cloths and practice small panels on a extra fender or hood. paint it body color let dry to touch mask a area off tape ur lace over the area spray the contrasting color don't move the lace till ur done spraying pull it off when its dry carefully hand tack it then clear every thing......Dave

 

Sounds pretty straight forward, appreciate the response bud! Nice to know someone wants to conversate this late, I'm up bored out of my mind lol.

 

Just as redroaddog said. Thats the only way I have ever heard of doing it. I did it on my shoebox and came out good. I see you're in corpus. I'm in Victoria so if youmare ever this way you could swing by and check it out

 

Watch your air pressure and keep the gun perpendicular to the surface . Good luck.

 

Oh wow....Victoria is my home town.....I was there last Saturday.

 

Make sure that the lace stays real flat & try to paint it 90o to the surface at all time.It you don't the edges or anywhere you don't stay 90o will look " foggy" , the spray will get underneath the lace. If you are doing small areas sometime those paper dollies work better.But they'e rarely bigger a place mat.

JimV

 

i have got this in my dropbox , if you want it just give me your email .

art of custom painting by mark & anne's photos, on Flickr
it doesnt tell you specifically about lace sadly though

 

Back in the day,we would buy sheet lace from a fabric shop to tape over the panel

 

Yo Ho...here is a link to a great old book.

http://s627.beta.photobucket.com/user/woodsbrian/library/painting techniques

Go to a fabric store and but several types of lace. Usually they have them in small pieces or you can buy a couple yards off a roll.

Slim

 

Hey,

If you take a squirt bottle of water to the lace after layout, and roll over it with a small roller, like the ones used for wallpaper work, you'll get a tighter transfer of the pattern. The paper lace can be cut and spliced together for large/complex patterns
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Wetting the lace can help it stick down a bit better. having tacky paint, or even a mid coat clear helps hold it in place. Be sure its laid out as flat as possible or it will lift and fog. low pressure, perpendicular to lace. I started out doing it on a helmet once, and now i do it on tons of things. The roof of my truck is done, and all the girls love it. They always feel it trying to feel the fabric still there.

 

Lace table clothes were used also,

 

Thanks for the replies guys, lots of useful info. Trying to get the car finished up by April for the lonestar rally, I'm gonna have to cruise it up to Victoria to check that shoebox out bud!

 

You need a lace brush, getting hard to find them anymore.

 

Thanks everyone for the info. I plan on trying some Lace Paint on the roof of my Acadian Longroof this spring.

Anybody have some pics of their Lace Paint jobs?

 

You use table cloths?

All this time I have been painting the patterns with a #2 stripping brush.

 

This might get you started: http://jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=257556

 

JoAnn Fabric Store They have different styles and patterns. Keep lightly taut as instructed.

 

can you spray the kandy over the lace?????

 

Check the lace and don't buy the stretchy stuff, alot of it is. All it does is make taping it up real tight a nightmare as patterns get distorted and look shite. Like others i tape it tight over a slighly tacky dust coat of mid clear and use a small roller over the lace. Getting lace is easy enough. Ebay and type "lace material". More lace than you'll ever need, cheap too. It also helps to blow out the lace with an airline before using and remove any loose hairs and fluff etc. I did have a problem with that when i peeled the lace off once and it left alot of of crap in the paint.
Most of all have a mess about with different colors and using fine line tape to give your work a negative pinstripe. Before you know it you'll be breaking out the mini gun and fogging and lacing every panel in sight

 

That's what I want to do ^

 

I've just started lacing my car. I just went to the local material store and got lace curtains. Make sure the surface is clean.
This is how they turned out


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You can also find paper lace at party supply stores, ,I think I would like to use those if I was doing a car top or hood or trunk in panels ,Two Bike tanks I have done with good effect and results. Tnomoldw


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