How to do crossovers on a custom candy flame paint job

[@mtampa43]

As the customer of this absolutely stunning paint work, I would like to say Thank you to Scott and Jodi. Scott has done many paint jobs for me over the last 15-20 years, several have made magazine features....But this one is special. Countless hours of work and thought goes into a job like this....when it’s completed, no one sees all the work that went into it, they only see the final product. Most will never know what it takes to get this type job done. Well I do...And I want everyone to know how proud I am of this job and how proud I am to know Scott and Jodi. Best on the planet! Steve Carr Samson V-Twin Samson, Alabama

[@TAZattitude]

Hey, thanks Steve. I appreciate this and all the work through the years you've given us. Lot's of cool paint jobs you've come up with and I've done for you. Be sure and send pics of this one when you get everything installed. Glad you liked the video!! Appreciate the comments!!!!

[@juliebrown9543]

By far the best how to custom paint on u tube

[@TAZattitude]

Thanks again Julie!

[@mrbigg7255]

Absolutely stunning.

[@TAZattitude]

Appreciate that

[@MrMagiagi1]

Absolutely beautiful bro

[@TAZattitude]

Thanks Tony!

[@nighttrain022]

Brother, I learned so much from just single run throughs of a few of your vids. At almost 58 years old, I have been a bike and car and even Ancient works of art fan all my life. When I got to the part of you discussing the shadows. I know in regular art and sketching portraits etc about shading and shadows and light sources, but really never thought about it in painting flames and cars n bikes etc. So cool how you emphasized this.

[@TAZattitude]

Thank you...appreciate it. Pretty much apply the regular art into custom painting. Airbrushing is even more involved than this. I started oil painting when I was 16. I'm 59 now.

[@johnholley7749]

That's a real old school paint job. Looks Bad Azz. Reminds me of some my dad's and his friends bikes back in the 70's.

[@TAZattitude]

Thanks John. I always enjoy doing this type flame job. Especially using different colors for the outline color

[@jeramiahweston8095]

Absolutely love the colors!

[@TAZattitude]

Appreciate it Jeramiah, I think they go great together to!

[@yvettechristy779]

I flamed my helmet using this technique .. came out awesome! Thanks!!

[@TAZattitude]

Great to hear the video helped you 👍

[@richardlawton1023]

Beautiful flames.

[@TAZattitude]

Appreciate it Richard!

[@The88katana600]

looks wicked cool that blue outline makes it look sweet

[@TAZattitude]

Thank you. I've done lime green and purple to. All look good!

[@zardportugal]

Stunner work.

[@TAZattitude]

Thank you!

[@richardgonzales263]

That is badass bro

[@TAZattitude]

Appreciate that Richard!

[@StupidEarthlings]

The flame shapes are beautiful. Some folks have wacky uneven size licks.. oy. Nice job!.

[@TAZattitude]

Appreciate the compliment!!

[@strexttp]

I learn from you! Very good video 😜

[@TAZattitude]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MotoStoriesandmore]

The Matte finish looks killer! Nice work as usual. I'm learning a lot from you, keep it up!

[@TAZattitude]

Great to hear your enjoying and learning from the videos. Appreciate you subscribing! I'll keep the vids coming!

[@sll-tt6bj]

Really nice I'm still trying to catch up on the process of how you did the Pinstripes first

[@TAZattitude]

Yea, it does work great especially for the Harley jobs! And would work great for a car to like if you had a couple pinstripes to do in silver and the car needs to be painted black. Spray the area silver, lay the pinstripes, paint the car black, remove pinstripes, and clear

[@StupidEarthlings]

Job looks great, i wonder though, with the matte finish, do the kandy flames really look as "kandy" as they would with a shiny clear?

[@marcosandrepereiradasilva2075]

Muito top Vale a pena conferir parabéns pelo lindo trabalho. ...👏👏👏🇧🇷

[@TAZattitude]

Gracias Marcos

[@BLACKRAIN390]

YOU AWESOME 🍻💯💯💯

[@TAZattitude]

Thanks again BR!

[@Tripps64]

Awesome video man. Whats you take on sticky mikeys masking paper for taping off?

[@TAZattitude]

I used to use it on motorcycles, but it just was too much of a pain working around all the curves. We found it was faster just taping and masking up. Probably a tad bit more to do it this way, but faster, so it probably is best in the long run

[@michaelmonty11]

This is incredible and such perfection! Love it. Not to be rude in any way....can I ask what job (Bagger) like this is charged out at (I presume USD)?

[@TAZattitude]

Appreciate it. It really varies. if they want crossovers, drop shadows, color of outline, original or aftermarket parts....range could run anywhere from $1800-$2500 plus materials. Again, lot's of variables.

[@1071jmkz]

Hi Scott, another great tutorial, really helpful! Question :- I have a very large size metal flake (0.40") for my tank, and the only colour I could get this big was silver. I want to base coat the tank black, then completely cover the tank in the silver metal flake, then apply my own flame mask, and I then want the flames to really pop in Gold Candy with the tips in a Darker Gold Candy against a Candy Black background. I have all the paints/candys/masking tapes ready and I'm just stripping the tank right now. However, I'm worried about how to mask the Gold/Black and what order to apply them. What would be your recommended method/order of masking for this effect? Also, I love the 'distant' shadow on the flame crossover on your tank, and I'd like to do something similar, but how much area do you mask off for these small areas of airbrush shadowing? Thanks in advance and apologies for the long drawn out questions!

[@TAZattitude]

Okay, here is how I would do this job. Black basecoat just to cover. Cover with flake / base clear mix. Good heavy cleacoats - resand flat (600 grit DA)/1000 wet Coat the complete parts with your desired candy gold (Pagan gold with a couple drops of apple red is nice) Clearcoat - resand flat Do your flame layout (mask UP the flames so the area you want black is exposed). CAREFULLY cut your flame tips. * Spray the base black or transparent black (or any other color) Remove tape and paper, reclear (so now you have a black base with candy flames) Add airbrushed drop shadows. No masking is required. These won't show up over a black base. Or unless you do overlapping crossovers kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6DMpIF5ncqrh7c Reclear once again, resand only if you want the tips a darker gold. add a little black to the above (NOT much) and individually mask off each tip and airbrush the gold on the tips. Reclear final time. The above will NOT get you an outline around the flames, you can do that where the * is. You will have to spray your desired color around the flames, and add another layer of 1/16" tape butted up against the flame layout tape (and add your 1/4" insurance tape I show in some of my videos). THEN do the black. Doing all the above will get you an effect like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWOXqJeXna58fbM Except in your flames

[@1071jmkz]

​@@TAZattitude Thanks so much for the advice Scott, I think I can understand this! I just hope now that I have enough Gold Candy to coat the whole (pre-metal flaked) tank... ! I have 2x 3.35 fl.oz bottles of Gold and 1 x 3.35fl.oz bottle of "Fool's Gold", which is a slightly darker shade... I bought much more Black Candy because I was originally planning to mask the flames DOWN so the flame layout was exposed and then spray the rest of it black, but it would've meant RE-masking the flames, which would be a real pain. Your method makes more sense, so thank you! I'll try and get a crappy video done to show you my amateur progress!