Painting

[Verne Koester]

David,
That sort of gets me to the answer I was looking for. With 3M fine-line tape, you can butt one piece of tape right up next to the other one without a gap. What I had in mind was to wait for the color I just shot to cure with the existing tape in place. Then, I'd butt the next piece of tape up to the previous masking tape. This piece would be right on top of the color I just shot the day before. Then I'd pull off the tape that masked the other color. That would leave no gap between the colors, but that little ridge that's always there would still be there. I guess my question is whether or not that ridge would sand away nice and clean after everything was painted without creating any unevenness between the colors. I'm having a hard time getting this worded properly so I hope it's clear.

Thanks,
Verne
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Flynt 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 10:11 PM
  Subject: RE: Painting


  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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