Painting Stripes - What's in a line?

[NO Dave]

So, I've had people tell me I make good lines. My secret is in the brush, and I let a slow and steady hand win the race. 

Tough teams for stripes - 

Chicago Bears

Pittsburgh Steelers

Buffalo Bills 

 

 

[NO Dave]

Who's tried painting sleeve and leg stripes with 5 stripes? How about 7?

[nefgm.org]

NO. When it gets to be that many, I just do whatever looks good and the team is still recognizable. 

[Ravenna Al]

I started painting a 70’ Redskins team way back in the late 70’s. I got 5 guys done and gave up because of the stripes. Then in the mid 90’s my son, who was around 7 at that time, got interested in electric football and I started painting again, doing a 49ers team for him. After painting a few more teams I was looking at a football magazine when I realized that the Redskins had changed their stripes to a much simpler design, so I finished the team using the new uniforms. I kept one 70’s player just to remind myself at how I once was able to paint those helmets and stripes without a magnifying glass. That team is now the Cherokee Nation in my fantasy league.

[Ravenna Al]

Ok, and as for technique, I painted one fat, or wide stripe. Then I would paint a not as wide stripe in the middle of that one so that it looked like 2 thin stripes surrounding a medium stripe. Then I painted a thin stripe in the middle of the medium stripe so that it looked like 5 thin stripes. Works for me!

[Terry Popham]

On 7/10/2022 at 4:11 PM, NO Dave said:

Who's tried painting sleeve and leg stripes with 5 stripes? How about 7?

Tampa bay.  Those pant stripes are a tough nut to crack.  I've done them and they looked good but it was time consuming.  

[zak99b5]

When I painted my Bills team (modern uni), I did a wide red stripe on the sleeve/shoulder.  Then painted a narrower white (but still wide) white stripe, and finally put a blue (jersey color) in the middle.  Though the red doesn't frame both top and bottom of the white stripes like the actual uniforms do, the touch at the top and the bottom looks much better than just two white stripes.  Excuse the crappy leg stripe!

[Terry Popham]

This figure has painted stripes on the sleeves and pants.  Not sure it translates in the pictures too well but the sleeve stripes are blues outlined in black.  I also  painted the glove patterns.  I find doing the inside stripe on the pants and then lining the outside works well for me.  And as Dave said 'slow and steady".