I Gentlemen, a d ladies, rev After seeing her kick out some killer pin-ups for a aumber of h your airbrushed Deborcth chopper clients, I had to insist she develop a pirtv+a;tencil. She Mahan's Pin-Ub Gid;~s hi not titled them Pin-Up~Gklies, and hit a homerun on drai ks t pitch. only Wrgeouh it'r uniq* in This demo WM done on top of a fibwglass tank +nk, - that it. is k t id## b t prepped with a 220' DA. Deb used b r stencils ta mbic the nose

il system that can be used to create differed - art found on World War 11 bombers. After primi%,cxnd sanding, s. These s W l s are also a bit longer than th the tank was based in black. The basecocrt black h s Scotchbrite

tencil to achieve a better fit along the length of a tank. padded before paint was applied to give th& &&he sanded- an, an esteemed Airbrush Getaway instruder for a worn look ef a bomber nose. Then we applied d @ht coat of of years, wmks with me at Kal Konce~ts/Bir Syndicate. Alsa's Ghost Chmm aluminum paint.

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m layout is the bas~c outline of Big Girl stenc~l. This i s the basic positive outline of the

age. It has the s m , k Liftle Girl pose on the same sheet. good stencil sysbm, Deb has created multiple uses and

Stsp 2: The first stencil is used.w$h little black ka~,~, &coot to create the pin-up's back$md shadow against the: tot. i .

Digging out one of the original Skullmaster Frontal stencils, Siflp 4: Going to the mcmd Girlie Girl B ste Deb sprays in the riwts along the aluminum pandsto create detail outlines with basecoat black. She al "bomber skin." You can use any circle stencil for this step, but be ghss option located on the lower right hand p0rtim o sure it is solvent-proof, or you'll end up with a potato chip for a There are a number of little goodies that Deb included stencil. stencils to allow you to individualize any o

t Step 7: Mixing up some opaque red, Deb sprays in the pin-up Step 8: Yu,, an see in this step how the image is slowly coming girlies top using the Hot Rod Girlie stencil. This stencil also has together, and there is little, if any, freehand at this point. Deb tattoos and a big dice you can lean her against. Deborah also concocts some flesh-tone pink to fog over the body. Any designed the F ' - - p girlies to use with other stencils; ie, you can overspray in this step will mute the design, which will actually lean your airlif against a skull if vou want to. produce an aaed look-iust like the original bomber art.

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Sf# 13: Deborah decides m e wants to push the nose-art realism. Ifq n I SteF le ar bttering. Deb nted in brings the tape back in and adds the seam line and rivets the red c -....., ,rour., ..., ,... ,,J to b.., .. ,,,at old schoc, , a k , and

the artwork. Using Alsa's kandy black, the underlying colors I lettered the Martini Time logo. It's amazing what a little red till visible in the rivets, adding to the realism of the worn outline and lettering can do to an image.

Deborah Mahan has been an airbrush instructor for the esteemed Airbrush Getaway program for the past four years. With clients such as DeBerti Designs, Disney, General Motors, and Discovery Channel, she is becoming one of the more soughtclfter automotive artists. She currently works at Kal Koncepts/Air Syndicate.

Craig Fraser, author of Autamotive CheQp Tricks and Spec airbrushing for nearly two decades. The owner and operator ",ndicote, Fraser has alsa been the inhouse airbrush artist a (a1 Koncepts since 1992. Located in Bakersfield, Calif., Kal Syndicate specializes in custom graphics, automotive airbrus art of the custom c u k e . Gaia diides his time between shop, writing magazine articles, and instructing. He has also a number of instructional videos, and is credited with pioneer in^

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