To finish this design I grab the white and add highlights to the eyes and hat
and lastly I border the pants to make them show up a little better. With these
final touches I call this design complete.
I believe this will be a great addition to add to your display with the hip hop girl
we did in a previous issue. This design sells well and there are many variations
you can do to it to make it just right.
If you have a design idea you’d like to see, or a question you’d like me to an-
swer in my article, e-mail me at askjammer@evenlink.com I’ll try and do my
best to answer them for you. If you’d like to see some of my work you can stop
by my website at www.freewebs.com/airdesigns
Keep sprayin’
I’m 24 years old from Ohio and I’ve been airbrushing since around 2002 mainly shirts
and other articles of clothing but recently got into the automotive part of airbrushing. I
paint out of my garage at home. My uncle donated this wrangler to go under the paint
god’s power. I never painted a whole vehicle before and he didn’t want to pay an arm and
leg to have it painted it was a little old and beat up after all. So we both kinda took a risk
but it turn out to be a great thing. The jeep now looks great and I even got some compen-
sation for doing it. I used the Iwata HP-BCS and HP-C plus for this job. I decided to go with
Duponts Nason line of paint.You can check out some more of my stuff on http://www.
myspace.com/grossgraphix.
First thing when I received the jeep it was going to need some work. It was a little
banged up and the paint was badly faded from what used to be red now looked like
pink. After completing all the body work and priming I sanded the jeep with 400
grit wet/dry sandpaper. Make sure you let the sandpaper soak for a while in water
before sanding so that you won’t get any scratches. After sanding and wiping down
the surface with Duponts 3939S Laqure/Enamel cleaner then preceded to spray
with Nasons Ful-Base red painting everything but the fiberglass top. I had the dealer-
ship check the paint code and give me a pretty close to the original color in Nasons
paint. After cure time I sprayed the hood with Hot Hues’s Hot clear (intercoat clear).
This will give me a safety barrier in case I screw up the design I can just wipe/sand
it off and start over again without hurt-
ing the red base as long as you don’t
sand through the intercoat clear. You
will have to scuff the surface after the clear is all-dry to give the next layers of paint
something to hold to. I used 600 grit wet/dry sandpaper.
Now from here I taped up the center of the hood where I wanted the eagle to be.
The client had a picture of an eagle that he liked and I projected it onto the taped
section of the hood making sure it was straight and in the center of the hood. Trace
around the image and cut it out with razor blade. Make sure you keep the outside
area of the eagle that you cut out you will be using it later. Be careful not to cut
through the paint. At this point I also taped up the outer design after the head of the
eagle has been cut and weeded out.
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