Originally Posted by
wiscnitro
Hey all. Im geting ready to paint another body and this one I want to take my time with. Im looking for tip on how to do a few things. 1 how do you do the stripes over the hood/roof/trunk? im guessing lay it out on the inside of the body with fineline tape,maqsk the rest of the body and pay the stripe color then lay the body color over that? if im right YAA but am I wrong and what collors can I use so I don't have to back spray the paint with white so I dont get the see through effect, will also keep from adding paint weight to a already heavy car. Thanks
I prefer to mask out where the stripes (or whatever detail I intend) will be first, and paint the main body color first, as opposed to having to mask the whole body to paint the detail first.
For the racing stripes on my Camaro, I masked off where I wanted the stripes to go first. Then I rattle canned the main body color (gunmetal). After that I pulled off the striping mask. I then laid out some very thin outline stripes at the edges of the racing stripes by masking only the center of stripes and leaving a gap around the edges. I then painted that in white. Finally, I pulled off the rest of the stripe tape and painted the main stripe color (black).