Carbon Fiber Effect?

What up Homies? I was wondering how do you get the carbon fiber effect? Example on mufflers, Hoods, Wings and so on if anyone can help me on this it would be great. Peace Out Homies

its a decal that you put on you can get it at www.scaleautostyle.com i think studio 27 sells it too not too shure and ive heard rumours that the decals shrink when you put them on. THAT MAXIM CHIC IN YOUR AVATAR IS HOT CAN YOU SEND ME THE URL SO I CAN USE IT :biggrin:

well my friend i got the picture online and i shrunk it in paint

Why did you post this twice? :screwy:

i pressed the button twice by accident

Then you can delete the old thread, Go into it, and click Edit/Delete, then it will have a button to click that says delete thread now, and reason why, the reason is optinal, just click Delete Post and it will delete the thread because it is the first post in the thread.

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first off, i must say i hate how you say homies....

but i like that chick, she's alright

anyway, carbon fibre, get some fine black sandpaper, and cover it with white glue, it should look and feel like carbon fibre. (cut out into desired shape)

Err, David, you may be happy with the sandpaper effect but decals are the best way to go for replicating carbon fibre. Chubbs, try running a search on the subject, reading the FAQ and the tutorial sticky. Should find plenty of info thay way.

I use scale motorsport CF decals , very high quality. I have not used the SAS decals but from what I see they are very high quality.
I also use microsol setting solutions to add in conforming to the part as seen here on the intake and valve covers
http://images3.fotki.com/v37/photos/1/11686/422676/IMGP0377-vi.jpg

BTW I am no-ones "HOMIE" 38 going on 39 and far from a homie, I wear my pants around my waist like the are meant to be and my boxers are not showing. SO in the future please don't refer to everyone as a homie and please use proper english, AF has a wide variety of people from all over the world and slang is not the best way to communicate with them

I use scale motorsport CF decals , very high quality. I have not used the SAS decals but from what I see they are very high quality.
I also use microsol setting solutions to add in conforming to the part as seen here on the intake and valve covers
http://images3.fotki.com/v37/photos/1/11686/422676/IMGP0377-vi.jpg

BTW I am no-ones "HOMIE" 38 going on 39 and far from a homie, I wear my pants around my waist like the are meant to be and my boxers are not showing. SO in the future please don't refer to everyone as a homie and please use proper english, AF has a wide variety of people from all over the world and slang is not the best way to communicate with them


Look Man i will refer to anyone the way i want and i dont give a cow on what you and any other person tell me what to say. alright HOMIE oh yeah and not all homies sag there pants its a way to say friend ok

I see you don't know the meaning of repsect either, whatever. Piss enough peolple off here and you won't get any reponses to all the questions you post daily :2cents: :2cents:

Look man i dont mean any disrespect to anyone ok and i dont want to start something stupid here and if i did offend some people here i apolagize to the people i offended.

alright, that neat.

but here is the question, how can u cut those CF decal into desire shape? some of the item has multipul faces and angles, I think it is really hard to cut it into the shape that I want. any tips?

alright, that neat.

but here is the question, how can u cut those CF decal into desire shape? some of the item has multipul faces and angles, I think it is really hard to cut it into the shape that I want. any tips?

TIP: Go to the 'How to' section, I wrote a 'How to' on applying C/F decals to complex surfaces, should help you.

alright, that neat.

but here is the question, how can u cut those CF decal into desire shape? some of the item has multipul faces and angles, I think it is really hard to cut it into the shape that I want. any tips?

Someone ( Freakray maybe?) did a nice how to awhile back that you might look for, great pics. But to answer your question quickly, you can make a pattern by applying masking tape to the part. Once you have it correctly cut to shape remove it and use it as a template, stick it to the CF and cut it out. I used that method to do the seat insert on the drivers side seat ( Scale Motorsport decal - they have a wide variety inluding animal skins ) sorry for the poor picture quality I was in a hurry http://images3.fotki.com/v36/photos/1/11686/415155/IMGP1143-vi.jpg

TIP: Go to the 'How to' section, I wrote a 'How to' on applying C/F decals to complex surfaces, should help you.

Darn beat me to it while I was busy typing, I thought it was you Ray, where you been haven't seen you post for awhile?? Hope your Holiday was good, Happy New Year!!!!

I saw this other trick on the Tamiya website for painting CF:
-Paint your parts black (flat, semi-gloss, it doesn't matter...)
-Find some fine mesh screen (some Tamiya kits come with this, but you may be able to find some fine screen in an Arts & Crafts store)
-Under very low pressure, airbrush metallic grey paint through the screen onto the parts one at a time.
-Clearcoat

This technique is tricky, so practice on some old kit parts or something first.

I saw this other trick on the Tamiya website for painting CF:
-Paint your parts black (flat, semi-gloss, it doesn't matter...)
-Find some fine mesh screen (some Tamiya kits come with this, but you may be able to find some fine screen in an Arts & Crafts store)
-Under very low pressure, airbrush metallic grey paint through the screen onto the parts one at a time.
-Clearcoat

This technique is tricky, so practice on some old kit parts or something first.


I have seen that as well and its been discussed here before. The problem I see with that method is that it would be very difficult on complex shapes and contours.

yea i started a tread on this a little bit bak but this teqnique does tend to have problems on complex surfaces