65 Fuel Canister Mask

That was kar-nut, Tom Glotkowski.

Bo, I bought the reproduction decal for one of these canisters, then I scanned it and made a file to print it out on a ink jet printer. then I went to a hobby store and bought the clear testers water slide decal paper, printed it out sprayed the decal with clearcoat "lightly" then cut it out, put it in water and transfered it to the cannister. When it dried I semi gloss clearcoated the canister and cannot tell the difference between one that was originally painted on.

You might try this.

Scott

I have sign making equipment, I am a draftsman and a Mustang nut.

If some of you have a .jpg or BETTER YET AUTOCAD .DXF FILE, I'd cut you a spray-mask (female) stencil decal for a reasonable fee for my time.

Email me at bryan@llind.com

The work on a mask has already been done. Using original canisters, the proper fonts were created to make the mask as close to the original as possible. The greatest difficulty was in the small letters and the three stars. The mask attempts to duplicate these in a realistic way as the original stars and small letters were not crisp. I have this mask in CorelDraw as a vector graphic. I can save it in other formats if someone wishes to make a mask. The color red is just for effect.

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Bob,

Did you get my PM?

Phil.

Sorry I was delinquent. Forgot to check my PMs. PM sent.

Was the 's' on "Genuine Part " left off intentionally?

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Charles, talk about eagle eye. You made me crawl under my

car in a quite cold garage this morning to verify that it

should be Genuine Parts. My fuel pump with filter bowl

is a NOS bought in the Ford box about 10 years ago.

/Bo

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Mr Bob,

Like you said, I tried making the mask but my plotter is just not good enough to cur the small letters and stars.

I have done a fair amount of screen printing. I guess that's probably best method to do these.

I've seen people hand screen print cylindrical items with a flat screen by rolling the round object along the underside of the screen while keeping the squeegee at the point where the cylinder contacts the screen.

Oops! The S is there, but it is under a layer and could not be seen. The red color was just for effect. I continued to refine the mask. The difficulty was in decisions about the stars and small Genuine Parts letters. If you look at any canister close up, those letters and the stars are really bad. I took a middle-of-the-road approach. I had a good idea what the letters and stars were supposed to look like, so I first made them that way, then deemphasized the corners by making them softer. I figured that the application with the mask would further degrade the crispness. I will say that this mask is much truer to the real thing than what I have currently seen in reproduction. Here is the mask and a close-up of the star area.

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