Custom Painting (S-A Design) (Performance How-To)

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Custom painting is something that interests all enthusiasts whether they are into hot rods, muscle cars, custom cars, racecars, sport compacts, trucks, or motorcycles. Custom painting has been around since the birth of the hot rod. Hallmark practitioners or pioneers like Von Dutch, Ed Roth, Tom Kelly, Dean Jeffries, and especially Larry Watson could lay out mind-boggling, dynamic, groundbreaking designs with seeming ease. Much of their work instantly became classic.
Author Pat Ganahl uses 416 color photos to show you how to do a variety of custom painting applications and techniques. From stripes to scallops to flames, candies to pearls to flakes, fades to fogs to blends, this book has it all. With numerous examples demonstrating how various custom paint jobs are designed and applied, this book provides a vast wealth of insight and is intended to help you to make a more-informed choice among the many options for personalizing your vehicle with custom paint.
The book gives you an overview of the broad spectrum of custom painting types and techniques available today. It provides a vast wealth of insight and is intended to help you make a more-informed choice among the many options for personalizing your vehicle with custom paint. This book gives an overview of the variety of custom painting techniques and materials that could be employed by an enterprising do-it-yourself car customizer.
Custom Painting not only tells, but also shows you how to apply these various looks with helpful how-to tips, and giving reference to the various often mysterious custom painting techniques and tricks, so that you can understand them and decide what to paint on your next special project.

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