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how to paint 2 colurs


wongy
10-20-2002, 10:21 AM
right guys ive read the faq on how to paint a shell and get the general idea but i dont know how to spray the shell if its two colurs,

the shell is a repsol coswrth and the car is in genral white but the boot is metallic orange. do i spray the whole car white then mask the rest of the area to spray orange or spray it orange then mask the orange area and spray white

plz help
want it looking good as the rest of the model has turnt out excellent for first attempt

wongy

lotus_man
10-20-2002, 10:50 AM
In theory you could do it either way round... but I do the white first then the orange. Orange is darker than white, so it will cover white OK, whilst getting a good solid white over orange would be harder. You would tend to see a different white where it was covering the orange overspray. Does this make sense?

In general start lightest, and work to darket colors.

Integra06
10-20-2002, 10:53 AM
This isn't realted to painting but what is the boot?

lotus_man
10-20-2002, 11:40 AM
It's the british version of the trunk...

Gainsbourg
10-20-2002, 05:53 PM
By rule we should always paint form the lighter do the darkest color.
First the white then the orange.
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