Product Description

Custom paint jobs are more popular than ever, and no form of custom painting is "hotter" than the flame job. This book will explain how to design the best-looking flames for a particular vehicle, how to transfer that design to the vehicle, and how to apply the paint. The process of painting the flames will be broken into major segments so that the reader can go as far as they feel their skills and confidence will allow. - No other books focus exclusively on the art of painting flames - Color photography and photo-heavy approach boost the visual appeal of the book - Part of the fast-growing Motorbooks Workshop series. 300 color photos Format: Softbound Pages: 160 Length: 8.25w x 10.75h

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29140 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-25
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
For those of you looking for a decent "How to " check out How to Paint Flames from MotorBooks International stable, a fine selection of styles with their own step by steps in easy to follow full colour segments. Many styles are covered here, from Traditional Hot Rod to tribal and True fire plus a lot more --Pinstriping UK

Chapter 1 is all about design and inspiration. There are lots of coloured photos of 'flames' on full size cars and also a photo of flames on model diecast toys. Marking and masking out are comprehensivly covered, followed by surface preperation. Tools, compressors, airbrushes and spray guns are discussed together with respirators. Airbrush batteries are dealt with and then comes the chapter on paint. Paints and catalysts are dealt with as well as custom colours. Chapter 7 shows how to layout traditional flames using m3 masking tape for the outline, then filling in the blanks with a wider tape. This is a long chapter and it goes deeply into producing the layout, the cleaning and the final painting of the flames. Next, wall of fire flames. These are totally diffrent from the standard flames, they look like the car is actually on fire rather than being a representative of a flame like the traditional variety. Realistic flames have a seperate chapter but in my opinion they look like a smaller version of the wall of fire flames. A simpler and cheaper method of applying flames is the one shot method. This is done with masking tape and a foam roller, and is so simple even I could do it. Ghost flames are flames that are very subtle. They tend to be visible in bright sunlight but are almost invisible in dull light or after dark. Pinstripe flames are basically just the outlines of flames in paint, applied with a longhaired brush. Rip flames are produced by using the rough edge of masking tape. They don't really look like flames at all. Tribal flames are sort of non-traditional flames. They are usually a blend of different types and people tend to associtae them more with tattoos than traditional flames. Masking out and painting are as for traditional flames, it is just the design that is different. Special effects cover a lot of different ground. Some of these designs look very smart. The final chapter covers clear finishing and final polishing. --Model Engineers Workshop

About the Author
Bruce Caldwell is a freelance writer who has written several books and magazine articles for do-it-yourselfers. This is his first book for Motorbooks International. He is from Woodinville, Washington.

Customer Reviews

How to Paint Flames
The paint jobs in this book are magic and the way its explained how to tape up the flames and paint them are easy to understand the ghost flame are my favourite flames

How to Paint Flames
This is an excellent how to book,it explains all the different types of flame painting .Each type of flame is shown in a step by step how to approach with good text and photographs so that anybody can follow and replicate them.
Overall a very good book for anybody interested in painting flames.