Thread: Who wants to follow along w/ my flame job?

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Looks even better!

Today's work

Met Dennis & his son Randy today to finalize the fine line lay-out. Mask tomorrow & paint discussion on Monday.



This pic shows 2 of Dennis Ricklefs panels to the left. The one on the right was done (badly) by someone else. Car had a fire under hood & Dennis redid the flames. Top of right panel is blistered.
I like the fade on the far left pic.




This pic shows Randy (a great flame artist on his own BTW) cutting the tape at louvers w/ a razor blade.




Here's a look down the hood w/ opposite side laid out. The 2 center ones running down the louvers have already had the tape cut at each louver. You can see several places where there's double tape. Dennis will lay down a piece of tape next to the old tape so he knows where the old edge was when moving a lick.




Opposite view of hood from driver point of view.




Close up of taping across the louvers.




View of flames on louvered hood side.





Dennis is starting to make changes



View of driver side transfer. He stopped at the door because there were lots of changes from rear edge of hood back. Some of this on cowl will be redone.




Randy cutting tape at louvers. You can see the tape flags on door that haven't been fixed yet.

Too many pics- had to make 2 posts out of it.




Flames are basically laid out, Randy is transferring the cowl changes between door & hood.
Note Dennis has flagged 2 more licks he wants to work out a bit more.




Transferring flame changes.
No pounce wheel or bag. He uses a white carbon pencil to trace the outline & transfer the flame.




Taping over the transferred line.
Panel flat enough for ya?





Final completed taping of the door area.

I cut and pasted the photos to another page where they worked. Intersting process. I like the way they use a trace paper to get both sides the same. The flame layout looks awesome. Looking foward to seeing this thread through to the end. Thanks, Steve.

Before pic



Completed pic w/ all the changes.

This is better than buying a book!

This is crazy great. I love all this and flames are fantastic. However for my truck I was hoping to go more of a mean "death proof" meets "maximum overdrive".

But all this makes me think about changing my mind!