Suggestions for tire template for M23

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Suggestions for tire template for M23

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Hey everyone,

Does anyone have any suggestions for the badyear logos for the tires? The aftermarket tobacco decals I got only came with logos for the body and nothing for the tires.

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Re: Suggestions for tire template for M23

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Various people make those round templates meant to be applied directly to the tire and then the letters airbrushed (the templates are usually PE metal). I heard a tip in the past few weeks that if you lay this on decal paper and spray the lettering there, and then apply the decal to the tire, it is better then trying to wrap the template around the compound curve of the tire.

Have not tried it yet, sounds intuitively simple. Look around for the templates. A quick scan of HLJ found a template for the odd sized Tyrrell P34 tires, other templates are out there.
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Re: Suggestions for tire template for M23

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I'm not good with the "this car needs this style GY, and that one needs that" but I bought this template set, and it has an ARRAY of GY's to choose from!
http://www.hlj.com/product/FNS60270
P34, 80's, 70's, fronts, rears, etc... It seems backordered now, but if you can find it, it's definitely worth your money, IMO.
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