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Originally Posted by Squiz
Thanks for all of your information,
Will go and spray the area to be striped with white undercoat and
then follow what you have advised.
Black mask off , then apply yellow mask off , then apply red,
Slightly sand, clear sand again. 
Hopefully it will work out nice |
hello Squiz, dont know if you already sprayed the car, but even if so, it will be usefull for other modellers.
As we all know masking is the most important part of creating multi colored painted cars. And as some posters mentioned there's alway the risk of paint bleed specially in areas where the masking tape needs to go over strong curvatures or recessed panell lines.
One tip to eliminate paint bleed even more is to seal the edges of the mask first with a shot of the underlaying color.
Here's the sequence I would follow
Grey primer (for the rough touch ups), white primer (finer grid sanding) Spray the yellow freehand, no need for a mask as your last coat will be black which is opaque.
As yellow is slightly transparent you'll need just a thin layer.
Mask off the yellow but before you start with spraying the red line first spray the edges of the masking tape with an other shot of yellow. This will seal the masking tape completely and even if there is some paint bleeding through...it will be of the same color as the masked off area.
Red is about as transparent as yellow so here also just a light coat is needed.
Let dry thoroughly and mask off the complete yellow & red stripe to paint the black, but here again, before applying the black, give the egdes of the masking tape a shot of yellow.
With this sequence you'll have the smallest numbers of masks, and your yellow & red stripe will be slightly recessed reducing thye chance of damaging it when you want to sand the black with 2000grid to remove small errors.
good luck and yeah do post the results