painting, paint or film highlights the unique character of the vehicle can not do? Lexus Europe has played a unique and creative, inviting tattoo art teacher Claudia De Sabe, to create the world’s first vehicle tattoos on cars Lexus UX, show the combination of technology and traditional Japanese difficult process.
even tattooed as many different kinds of tattoos, but tattoos Claudia but for the first time on non-human, let alone on the cars of the sheet metal UX . Therefore, in the white-colored car UX, Claudia first tool to remove the paint table, and then a very small drill bit to replace the general tattoo needle; and consumption of 5 liters of paint to profile “car”, and even with gold leaf income side to present a more pronounced three-dimensional effect.
Claudia and her husband Yutaro Japanese took six months before the substrate carp and ukiyo-e style pattern is completed, and then spent a full colored five days; compared to tattoos in general, many seem hard to vehicle tattoos, in addition to metal surfaces of chiseled shock and unable to move freely, let alone did no room for error, for creators pressure is huge.
However, even if the object poles do not, Claudia still found commonality between man and machine tattoos. “When man tattoo, you have to consider is under the skin and muscle tissue, when the tattoo is for the car to consider how to change the body to change the vehicle’s architecture,” Claudia representation. “The UX can be said as the best tattoos experimental cars, because it from the line, texture, shape and even the windows, everything is dynamic and beautiful.”
tattoos UX, the world’s first car for Lexus vehicles and not to be sold, but the estimated cost of custom-made to spend at least £ 120,000. Perhaps, for a time-consuming more than six months to build, unique UX, so the price is not the cars in exchange for painting cars, but a very sophisticated technology products.