1978 Side Decal "Ski Nautique"

I got some frisket paper, and it was just brutally hard to do the stern. I am just going to paint over it (the stern) and apply the vynil lettering. The sides, however, are in pretty good shape and I will TRY to touch them up a bit, but Im in NO rush for that.

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Do you have the Show Nautique yet? I'd love to see some pics.

BKH

If you are just doing the transom graphics then look at the general section and keith has posted the graphics shop that already has it designed and it is very close to original.

trikeaholic wrote: will do, I will get a before shot of the stern, well, with the tape on it, but you should be able to see how worn and thin it is. Hope it turns out ok.

Well, that was not as easy as it sounded and that project is cancelled until I find a better way.

Trike; Don't forget to post the pics for us when you're done........jbear

Don't use masking tape, you will not get hard-edge lines. 3M makes a tape called The Edge. It gives extremly sharp edges. To do the parts that are not straight, use frisket. It's a masking material that airbrush artist use. It has a low tack back and you can see through it, and it cuts very easy with a X-acto knife. Go to dickblick.com and order a roll of frisket. If the graphics are completely gone, find a boat with decent graphics and tape a roll of tracing paper to the side of it and trace it, flip it over, trace on the back side of the lines (very carefully) then place on your boat and trace on the front and it will transfer. Be sure to cut the tracing paper even with the bottom edge of the boat so you have a reference point. I redid my '66 Mustang like this. I liked the double stripe ski tiques and nautiques had in the mid '70's. So I traced the stripes,and traced Mustang on a Mustang 17 and drew the running pony and sprayed it on my boat.

Here is what I am going to do. There is a type of paper available at craft stores or auto paint shops that is translucent, with a low strength adhesive on one side. We are going to attempt to trace out the letters on the paper, remove paper, stick cut out letters back on to cover, use blue masking tape to mask off the rest, and roll on new paint over the old graphics. Yes, it will be time consuming, but should work out fine. Someone said on this site that the factory used Rustoleum enamel, so I guess we will use that. Should take a good day to mask off and about 10 minutes to apply the paint. I have thought about this long and hard and I think this may be the best way to go.

If you need god pics of factory lettering let me know.My boat is untouched still and he sids are awesome.The back i faded a bunch but could getr you good measurements.

Oh yeah, if you dont know of a good place for this. I'd really like any good suggestions on how to make a good stecnicl that I can use to repaint on the graphics after the boat is finished.