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Originally Posted by Doc
After viewing this thread and reading what some had said about stripe width, and going all the way down the front I decided to try some "what ifs" using Adobe Illustrator. What I discovered is although the car looks like it should have stripes, and it seems like it would be easy to stripe it, once you start you find there are a LOT of subtle lines in this car that get easily messed up when you start modifying them. You can't just throw a band of stripe on it and expect it to look good.
I spent quite a bit of time playing around with all kinds of things. I fully believe Tom Henry when he said he spent a couple days messing with the stripe width and placement; it's that critical.
It actually came down to only ONE style of all the ones I played with that actually looked good. The Silver SS I did in both black and white with a full down-the-front scheme. I spent a LOT of time messing with this before I got a look that I felt was balanced to the car and didn't look cheesy. The best look was putting the stripes only on the front face of the body panels, which allowed the built-in sculpted edges to remain untouched. I tried it the other way but it just looked wrong.
The rear shot of an IBM Camaro shows the stripes going just over the spoiler and trunk lid, and then all the way down to the bumper. I tried putting them down the bumper too but it looked horrible; WAY too overdone. It's a toss-up which one looks best; I think they both look good although the one going down to the bumper has a bit meaner look to it. The rectangle rear panel with the Chevy bow on it would look good blacked out with either one. I might try this on a rear shot of a lighter color car if I can find a good, straight photo of one.
What do you guys think?
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We used a lot of photos from the net for ideas, but when we layed it on the actual car it looked a little different. I will try to tape a line and post a photo wider and see what you guys think. I agree that going down both ends is too much.