Spray-painting a checkerboard

[xXRockyHorrorsXx]

Hey people.

Well, it's come to the time where I decided I want to spray paint the underside of my hood (in the ditch thing) checkerboard, however, I can't figure out how I am supposed to tape it off to make perfect squares..can anyone suggest how I do it?

[silverspeedbuggy]

My first thought is to have a sign place make you a vinyl checkerboard; put it on, paint, then remove all the squares. A potentially cheaper solution would be to find square stickers, stick them on, paint, then remove them all. You might not get them to perfectly line up though.

[FineExampl]

Painting a checkerboard isn't easy, but it can be done. You'd want to put the lighter color as a basecoat, than you can put stripes of the darker color, than mask off the squares and go over it again with the basecoat. I vote vinyl.

[Lnzbug]

Are you talking inside or outside? I think a bullseye would be more appropriate. I'm not teasing just sayin....
Paint the lighter color first, let it dry then use butcher paper and tape to make the squares.

[Fowvay]

The easy way to do it is to lay down a piece of vinyl and draw lines on it using a straight edge and a sharpie... then cut out the squares where you want paint.

or... you can have someone make you a checker board piece and then just peal out the pieces....