Captain America Shield from used satellite dish

Step 11 Add star

All the tape was removed from the previous step, and when the red paint was dry the inner white circle was remasked.

A star shape was drawn on the tape using a stencil. An exacto blade was used to cut away the needed areas, and the rest of the shield was masked off. The inner circle was then painted blue.

Painting this blue circle was especially tricky because the method used to seal up the tape in order to create clean lines and avoid bleeding only works if the tape is masking between two colors. Here, there were three colors I had to deal with all at the same time.

Before painting the blue coat, I very carefully spayed the edges of the taped star white, and the edge of the circle red. This sealed up the white star and the red circle from blue bleed-through. This worked very well and prevented any ugly bleeding.

Comments

[tleonard2]

Does anyone know where to get the star stencil?

[achutheawesome]

you can get one on the internet and print it out

[4Skin42]

Hey, what is the bags purpose in the forth photo here?

[bucklipe]

Compare picture 3 and 4. You see the craft paper covering the shield. After the paper is sprayed the paper looks like a bag.

[seamster]

I'm not sure what you're seeing. The fourth photo shows the blue painted area of the shield, prior to removing the masking tape and paper.

[sblank]

I'm not sure if this works, but I heard if you use a high heat hair dryer, you can semi melt the glue under the masking take, this may also help when trying to avoid bleeding