Painting

[David Flynt]

Verne,

I have done adjacent color to color without color sanding, using PPG concept
and 3m fine line.  The trick is to avoid a heavy build-up of paint on the
tape line.  One way to do this is to use gravity to your advantage, starting
with the bottom of the fuse and working up.  Another way is to just limit
the amount of paint that you spray.   You will need to take your time when
taping off the prior color, or else you can get a gap between the two
adjacent colors.  Otherwise, you should not have any problems.

David
  -----Original Message-----
  From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On
Behalf Of Verne Koester
  Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 6:46 PM
  To: NSRCA
  Subject: Painting


  I'm in the process of painting my Smaragd and this is the first time I've
chosen a color scheme where the colors butt up to each other. In the past,
I've always used a white separation stripe between each color. My question
is whether you wet sand the ridge at the tape line before you mask for the
next color, or do you just tape off the color that was already applied, pull
off the previous masking tape and shoot the next one. I'm using 3M fine-line
tape.

  Thanks,
  Verne
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