Painting

[Verne Koester]

Todd,
That's what I did for the second color which I just finished spraying. Near as I can tell, that worked just fine. Won't know for sure until all the colors are on and I do the final sanding, but it seems this technique will work just fine.

Thanks,
Verne
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Todd Schmidt 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 8:27 PM
  Subject: Re: Painting


  Vern, Pull the tape, lightly sand and then mask the second color.  Todd 
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Verne Koester 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 9:39 PM
    Subject: Re: Painting


    Todd,
    Are you saying to sand BEFORE I pull up the existing tape line? Or do you mean to pull the tape, sand lightly, and then mask for the next color?

    Thanks,
    Verne


      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Todd Schmidt 
      To: discussion at nsrca.org 
      Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 10:23 PM
      Subject: Re: Painting


      Vern,  If your using a two stage paint such as Dupont Chromo Base, I would suggest lightly wet sanding the tape line with 1500 to 2000 grit before masking the second color.  You'll be amazed on how much  "loose"paint comes off the line leaving a nice shallow ridge to mask against. Be careful and you'll be fine.

      Todd
        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Verne Koester 
        To: NSRCA 
        Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 8:45 PM
        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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