I'm definitely gonna have a try at making my own batch tonight, great guide!

I've bought a couple of really good ones off the storefront, but with them being locked its hard to mould them into intricate shapes for cars with curves that need carbon

Fantastic guide. Really easy to follow.

I do have one question though and would greatly appreciate any help.
This works great on large evenly shaped areas like the whole car, or a big square bonnet but how can you apply this effect to a oddly shaped area?

I'm trying to make a nice carbon bonnet for my RX7-FD.

When painting on the TOP/HOOD layer if I stretch the pattern to fit the widest part of the bonnet it'll either hang over the edge on to the top of the side panel or if i keep it inside the bonnet then i'm left with a odd triangle shape with no fill...

Plus I want to be able to go around the lights and leave them the same colour as the rest of the car.

I guess I'm just after a tutorial on how to 'colour inside the lines' as it were.
any pointers or links to other guides wil be fantastic!

Thans in advance

 Giz

_Anonymous:

Guide to making foolproof awesome looking Carbon Fibre

Please note the carbon fibre must be made over a solid graphite coloured object so either colour your whole car or your bonnet this METALLIC colour

Or if your car is a different colour cover and you want to cover a random area that isnt the bonnet you want place a vinyl of this colour underneath.

Note if doing a small area and applying a vinyl below the results wont look quite so good, but still good!

 

Step 1

Apply Vinyl Shape - Stripes - Stripe 17

Make it this colour

Resize it to

X - 0.21
y - 36.61 or more, not less (make sure this stretchs over the widest point of the area)
Spin - 28.00

You should have something looking like this

Copy this layer and duplicate, align it up exactly parallel. You made need to overlap it just slightly to make it look continuous. Once you have about 3 lined up you can copy those 3 layers and line them up etc, until you have covered the whole area.

Step 2

Apply Vinyl Shape - Stripes - Stripe 17

Make it this colour

Resize it to

X - 0.15
y - 36.61 or more, not less (make sure this stretchs over the widest point of the area)
Spin - 334.73

You should have something looking like this

Again start duplicating and lining up

When you have covered your area, tidy up any edges and voila, you have carbon fibre

Step 3

Admire

Thanks for reading, any problems or errors let me know and il amend.

i cant see any of this pics [:'(]