isuZOOM, with this method and some more masking for the flames you can do alot of nice things, just to play with the look before you commit to something.

I just saw in the auto section at KMart last week a can of paint by ??? called Illusions or something like that. They had a bunch of rattle can flip flop paints, one of which was Ford's Mystic Purple...one of the coolest flipflops ever. It would look hella cool as accents on a black ride...and you can get commercial flame masks rather than masking out your own too. Although, masking out your own isn't hard, just majorly time consuming. Just start with some pinstriping tape, and make the flame outlines, then mask off outside the lines...