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Before I put
the mask on for the gap between the stripes I realized
I made a mistake when I painted the black panel on the
tank, I thought the gap between
the stripes was orange, so I had to paint a
black stripe between the two pieces of fine line tape before masking
the gap.
The whole tank was masked leaving the wide
-~20mm- stripe exposed, I overlapped the edges of
the fineline tap with normal masking tape to prevent the
possibility of a black line showing up on the orange side of
the stripe.
I then sprayed a couple of light coats of black on the
exposed stripe. When the black was dry - this was
polyester basecoat and on a warm day you can get away with
masking over it after a few hours - I removed the tape
covering the edges of the stripe and masked the gap.
I sprayed light coats of white basecoat to
cover the black edges -they would show through the silver-
before dusting a couple of coats of silver on. I remove
the tape after about five minutes
About an hour after the stripes were
painted the tank was masked, I have a very dirty garage
and if left overnight the tank would pick up a lot of dust,
Tak ragging metallic is out it ruins the orientation of the metal.
Something I haven't tried is giving a mettalic a dusting of Laquer to
protect it untill the whole thing is Lacquered. |
