Airbrush Maltese Cross
How To Airbrush A Maltese Cross
by Don Johnson
Welcome to howtoairbrush.com if this is your first visit we hope you come back often as we will add new how to airbrush, kustom painting articles at least once a week. In this article I’ll be adding a Maltese Cross to a Harley tank which has already been based coated and cleared. What I used in this project: Iwata HP-CS airbrushes House of Kolor paint, transfer paper, fine line tape, masking tape, hobby knife. I’m sure there is more ways of kustom painting a Maltese Cross than the way I will be showing you but hopefully you’ll read some techniques you can use in your own airbrush projects.
I start out with a Harley Sporster tank that is ready to have the artwork added to it. Notice the gas filler hole is masked, won't do to get any paint down inside the tank.
Apply your transfer tape so you end up with as few wrinkles as possible; no need to cover the entire tank just the area where the Maltese Cross will be.
I've drawn a Maltese Cross in Abobe Illustrator and printed it off the correct size to fit our project tank.
Now we'll find the center of the tank and draw a refernce line on the transfer tape so the design can be centered.
On our design I've traced the design on the back side with a number two pencil. On the orginal side I find the center of the design and match the two center lines and use tape to heold the design in place. Our design is now centered on the tank. Now go back over the design on the orginal design with a pen tracing the design again.
With the design orginal removed you can see our Maltese Cross has been transfered onto the transfer paper. Now carefully cut the design out of the transfer paper with a hobby knife.
With the Maltese Cross now exposed I airbrush Orion silver over the enture design and let it flash or dry for about an hour before moving onto the next step.
At this point if there is a logo incorporated in the design add it to the design as I’ve done in the picture above.
I want a silver pin stripe around the outside edge of the Maltese Cross and add 1/8 inch fine line tape around the outside edge.
To add some interesting texture within the Maltese Cross I use a modified marblizing technique with Surane Wrap and base black.If you've added a logo go right over the logo with your texture.
With our texture added I airbrush a bit of House of Kolor KK Cobalt Blue over the design. Almost done soon as the Cobalt Blue is given time to dry it's time to pull all the masking.
With the masking romove there's our completed MAltese Cross complete with silver pin stripe around the out sides edge. I hope some of these techniques you can use in your own airbrush, kustom painting projects, please post your results on the forum here.
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