Pinstripe Airbrush Help

[Simpo]

Hi Guys,

Finally made an account on here after months of browsing! My dad bless his heart got me an airbrush and compressor for Christmas, very chuffed, now as you will see from attached photos, The buggy shell was painted with the siphon feed brush (that me dad got for me) and i found i didnt have alot of control with it.. (see the drop shadows), but after alot of reading and pulling me hair out trying to change colours constantly, I decided to try out a gravity feed gun with a knob to adjust air flow at the nozzle (which i painted the wing with) MUCH happier with the gravity feed gun, feel i have much more control...and loving it...

But here is me problem, i work at a large format print company and work with illustrator daily so making my own stencils is no problem at all.. BUT i have tried a couple of different ways of applying the masks.

1. Liquid mask the whole thing, then cut out the design
2. apply the vinyl cut stencil, THEN cover with liquid mask and cut out..

however i do it, paint always seems to creep under and just straight up ruin my pinstripes. do you guys paint your pin stripes first?

Oh yeh, 1 more thing, when pulling up my vinyl mask for the pin stripes i keep lifting the paint around it.. do you have to cut AGAIN to ensure you dont lift the paint?

sorry this is me first airbrush job and just want to nail this pin stripe business!

any help appreciated..

cheers

Adrian


**EDIT** lmao i have No idea why my photos have gone upside down! sorry about that!