Lowe Shells

[jimmy]

I dont paint shells for people! honest. But for a spot of fun (!) I did these two for oOple super star Rich Lowe.


This is the BJ Worlds with the blue applied and the masking on for the rest still.



This is the end result.
There are about 3 different blues in there yellow, transparent red, chrome and silver and charcoal pearl.
For a laugh, I did 100% of cutting on the plotter, none at all on the shell. so the lines are impossibly clean.. the problem was the 5 hours of masking (with creating the masks etc). hmmmmmm.. dont think i'll be doing it this way again..

The window masks / borders I put up the other day worked really well on these shells, in fact, perfect. Richard wanted consistent clean THIN window borders and thats why I came up with this idea.

Never painted a shell without it being cut out before, anyone else do it that way?, so hope it doesnt get destroyed when cutting. I would have cut them out but just aint had the time so ill let rich do it..

[jimmy]

A close up

[PaulRotheram]

looks good jimmy!

nearly as good as mine

[jimmy]

I never wanna paint another shell as long as i live!

[emzy]

But... what about my B4?

*runs and hides*

[Richard Lowe]

Cheers for this Jimmy they came out great, the chrome bits look well snazzy!

I'll try my best not to scratch them

[Bathy]

Originally Posted by jimmy

I never wanna paint another shell as long as i live!

£100 says you will next year… ha ha

You do paint a mean looking shell Jimmy, they are always very smart indeed, so good you'd worry about using them on the track!

[jimmy]

lol, I have to say, I spend far too long and im far too fussy about these things.

[DCM]

Thats very smart dude, very smart, I like the blue, looks like afasescent blue backed with either silver or chrome to give it a bit of bling.

Only thing missing is some drop shadows on the custard blobs,lol.

Now, can I post a pic up??

http://academyracer.fotopic.net/c899120.html

http://academyracer.fotopic.net/c899120.html