Delve Into Lunacy

I figured that since I was buying a Vauxhall anyway it was a good time to go ahead and try a paint design that would cover every side of the car. Initially it seemed like doing something that’s all straight lines, such as the British flag, would be pretty simple and actually the first few steps really were.

I started by creating the design on another car that had larger flat surfaces. I looked up the actual dimensions and what not of the flag so it’s as accurate as I could get it (including the offset of the diagonal red lines). Once I had that complete I saved it as a vinyl group and then pasted that to the roof of the Vauxhall. A little resizing and then the top was complete.

It’s at this point that the project got ugly. Basically, trying to make it look like straight lines wrapping around the corners of the car is a serious pain in the ass. None of the angles even remotely match up and once you think you have it looking right from one angle it looks like crap from another. This is why the corners come to a point like they do in the pictures. I’ll probably mess with it some more later on, but for the time being I am thoroughly irritated with working on it.

Vauxhall VX220 (PI: U999)