I have my roads and parking areas poured. I need to add the
centerlines and parking stripes. Now, I know my hand in not
steady enough for painting the stripes, so that’s out of the question.
Does anyone have an idea as to what I could use.
I am planning on making slanted parking spaces like you see in
the downtown areas of a small town… you know, the ones in front
of the stores on Main Street. They need to be either white or yellow.
I believe white would be more appropiate for the late 40’s or
early 50’s. Any help would be great. Thanks in advanced, Dave
There is a product made by a company called Chartpac that makes colored chart tapes
in many differant widths. May local hobby store also deals in model airplanes and
remote control cars and there is differant colored striping tape that they use for pin
striping their models, that’s what I use for my center lines and so forth on my roads.
it’s easy to use and looks great.
I wouldn’t mess with decals for street markings. I would go with the Chartpak tape Harvey mentioned. It comes in a few colors, and as narrow as 1/64". If it doesn’t come in yellow, you just get white and lay it out on a nonporous surface like a scrap of plexiglass or even glass, and paint it. There is a special style called “crape” that can be used for curves.
You can also go with low tack masking tape and airbru***he desired color stripes. Since the tape is low tack and your hand is not so steady, you can keep repositioning the tape till it looks accurate. (be careful if your using small scale cinders to simulate a gravel road, this will still work if you apply enough coats of glue on the road first) If your using paint on plaster or paint on wood first this is fairly easy. Make sure your tape is a soft, low tack, curveable tape (3-M Blue or an automotive flame striping tape). Do NOT use heavy coats of paint!!! ( They will leach under the edges of the tape and look bad).
Use light dry coats to get the desired effect. Pull the masking tape up SLOWLY. Patients will be a virtue here.
While in the hobby shop the other day, it was suggested that I use Woodland Scenics
dry transfer decal stripes. What do ya know… it worked. I got the parking spaces done
and I think they came out okay. What do you all think? And be honest[B)][:D]. Dave
The dry transfer and tape sounds like good solutions; however you could also make stencils using a sheet of paper with small slits for the stripes and then carefully spray a light coat of paint over the stencil. The stencil and tape methods are “prototypical” in that they have and/or are still used today.
Will
