Stripe references before painting
Hello, all. As I work slowly through my bodywork, I am trying to get my thoughts together for laying out the stripes once I am spraying paint. I found a 10-year-old post referencing using a very small hole drilled in various places on the body, but that has been pretty much all I have found. Would any of you that paint, or have painted these cars with stripes and a hood scoop chime in with the methods used to be able to re-find my "centerline" as I spray the body parts? I plan to do the offset that Jeff Kleiner describes for the rear between the trunk latch to license plate mount. How do I mark or refence the rear of the body below the latch, the middle part of the body, the front of the scoop, nose, and oil cooler opening so everything lines back up for masking off the stripes? It is easy now to find my center as the car has sharpie marker points at a handful of places along the body, but those will be gone later.
Thanks much for any insight,
Mark