I've got zero artistic skills but have managed to make some simple skins consisting of a single body color and one image on the hood. What I'd like to do, though, is add some flames around the wheel wells.

I've used the Iwarp distort filter to create a fairly good flame image. What I need, though, is to figure out how to take that image/layer and wrap it around the contour of the wheel well so that it appears the flames are coming out of the well towards the door.

I've tried just overly the flame image and then cutting out the well, but this makes a nasty mess.

I'm currently working on the UF1, but have tried the same thing on most of the other cars. I'm pretty sure the model of working on is irrelevant since its a question on the capabilities of Gimp.

Have I made this clear, or was that confusing? Thanks for any help.