Stencilling Equipment and Techniques

[Bob Brown]

Reading over the thread I see about everything that I have tried.

What I have found works great is this. I have a vinyl stencil plotter for making decals. Not hard to find. Any sign maker has one. I don't want a decal on the paint I want it painted on...so

What I do is I use a non permanent decal stock and do the decal on it. I then take out the letters (opposite of what you would normally do). This will leave you a stencil that you position and stick onto your vehicle. As I leave a couple of inches of material I mask (butcher paper) with green painters tape around it on the decal.

I have hand painted and I have spray painted. Both have looked good.

Let it dry a little bit before you pull the stencil off. Nice shape lines.

[Ron King]

I have seen simple paper stencils work well.
The secret is using a small foam hand roller to apply the paint to stop the paint creeping under the stencil.

[Rob Fast]

here's what I accomplished today. Not done yet, looking for some RCA stick on decals for the story board. Cheers Rob

[rob love]

Rob

For the RCA decals try here:
http://www.rcakitshop.net/shop/decal-red-over-blue

[welbike]

Well, I've been applying most markings etc. usually myself, and am not bad at it, as a lot of people aske me to their vehicles, problem usually is that it's too nice! during wartime conditions there were no perfect brushes and stencils with glue on the back etc. etc. so overspray, ragged edges etc. is all possible, even from the factory it was not always perfect, just study lots of wartime pictures, never copy someone elses restored vehicles, they may have gotten it wrong somewhere too.

Favourite method is also as described above, make something up in the PC, print it out, and cut out with sharp knife, then copy onto the part, I usually use lead pencils for that, the softer the better, it can be removed afterwards with soapy water, and that is what was used during wartime too, so most original, even if you later still see traces of it.....

Here a sign I just did a couple weeks ago for my Canadian field workshop display;

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I have 3 different sizes of those heavy US manual stencil cutters, that are always in the way, wherever you put them, but are very handy for all sorts of texts.

Cheers,

Lex

[gary_bath_jr]

Hey All

We have a company here that will do stencils made out of magnets, this would work perfect for anything to go on a vehicle like unit markings, etc. You could likely get individual numbers made up so that you could have different numbers on the doors.

I used to use stencils like this with a company I used to work for and they work really well and last a long time, all you would need is to know what font to use and they can make any size stencil you want. The other good thing is if you don't seat it perfectly you can get overspray.

Gary