Apply Vinyl Stripes – Dealing with complex curves

For my giant-scale Corsair, I needed to cut vinyl stripes to fit vertically around the rear fuselage. Because of the complex cross-sectional shape—a sharply tapered, narrow top curve that transitions to a round bottom, a simple straight stripe wouldn’t work. First, I tried a version of the stripes I copied from a plastic model decal set, which I sent to Callie Graphics (Callie-Graphics.com) for cutting. Callie did the original graphics for this model for me,...
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