Soak your design in warm water until the design slides easily
from its backing paper. Keep the surface where the water
slide will be placed wet and slide your design into place. Be
sure to work all the air bubbles out from the center of the
design to the edges. With the surface wet it will allow you
to move the design around on the surface until you get it
precisely where you want it located. Double, triple check to
ensure no air bubbles are present before calling it good.
After it’s completely dry apply one coat of Inter Coat clear
(SG 100) giving it time to dry and than apply two part clear
over the entire helmet.
Once the clear has set 24 hours again scuff it with a
medium Scotch Brite pad, clean it with glass cleaner,
mask off your water slide design and start laying out
your art work or graphics.
Here in this example I use House of Kolor Orion Sliver
as a base color and mask off the grid work using fine
line tape. Appling House of Kolor Kandy Apple Red
now to the areas that have not been masked off will
give us our final helmet color. Pull all the fine line tape
and there you have silver grid work, pretty easy stuff.
Now to touch up around the bills use and combination
of masking tape and fine line tape leaving only the dol-
lar base color revealed to which I apply a dark brown
color. To add a drop shadow between the bills again I
use fine line tape and masking tape to protect the bills
using a mix of House of Kolor Root Beer with a touch
of black added for the shadow.
A quick once over to ensure everything is as it should
be and three more coats of clear are applied to hel-
met. To level the design on the helmet 600 grit wet
sand paper is used between the final clear coats.
Almost six months after the helmet was completed everything is fine with the
design and no problems have occurred with the use of the water slide. This is a
picture of Cody wearing his helmet waiting on the grid during the Florida Winter
Tour Kart Race Jan. 2007.
I’m now confident enough it the technique to use it on other customers helmets
and have already taken several jobs where it will be used.
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