With the very tight curves required to fit my flames within the my knuckle a crossed the test panel seeing if it was dry enough
circle it worked out better to use two inch masking tape to yet. This you’ll have to play around with yourself, as it’s very de-
mask the area off and draw the flames on the masking tape pendent on the type of size you use and the weather conditions
as opposed to the fine line tape method of laying flames out. where you are as to how soon the size will be ready to apply the
After cutting out the areas of masking tape that would become gold leaf. Any imperfections like dust or a build up of size will
my gold leaf flames, cleaning the area very carefully I applied show thru the gold leaf so take care to get this part of down cor-
the sizing making sure to keep it as thin as possible. To keep rectly. If you apply the gold leaf to soon it will turn dull on you if
track of the drying time and to see weather the size was ready you apply it to late you’ll have problems with it adhering. It’s well
for the gold leaf to be applied I brushed some size onto a small worth burning up some size and books of leaf to practice this on
test panel. I would go back about every five minutes and drag test panels before you try it on a customers project.
Here you can see my gold leaf Moving down the sides of
flames after I had burnished them the helmet the next part
with a piece of cheesecloth to sep- of my design to complete
arate the loose leaf. This proved to was the checker flag,
be lots of fun and a great way to which runs around the
add something very unusual, inter- bottom one third of the
esting to my helmet design. I ap- helmet. To lay the flag out
plied two coats of SG 100 over the with small checkers I sim-
flames at this point; you might even ple used one-inch masking
want to clear the entire helmet as tape, I forgot to take pictures but have a picture of an-
the gold leaf is easily messed up if other helmet where I used the same technique on top
your are not careful. of the helmet.
With the checker flag all sorted out I ap- Now working from the top of the After masking off the top circle graphic and bot-
plied House of Kolor Neon red as the dark helmet down I mask off the top tom checker flag I applied a base color of House
color in my flag. I’ll let the Red dry a few and circle and add two bands that go of Kolor Neon Yellow and allowed that time to
then pull all the tape off revealing the white around the helmet using Neon dry completely.
checkers in my flag. Red and Neon Yellow.
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