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[Jedi801]

Last night I was looking at my Opel Astra wondering how I was going to mask it and found the masking templates. I made the masks out of tape and got the whole thing masked. Only after masking the whole thing I thought that I should paint the body white then mask and paint the yellow. My question is should I strip all the tape off and paint it white first or do you think I could paint it yellow and then re-mask and use an exacto to cut on the lines then paint white?

I did come up with a good way to make the masks for the other side of the car though. What I did was scan in the mask templates and flipped it horizontally then re-printed. Then I could lay the tape on that and cut on the template lines.

[AccordTypeR]

I would paint whole body with white first then mask it and paint yellow

[935k3]

With any two tone paintjobs it is always better to paint the lighter color first. I painted mine white first and then did the yellow. I did not use the masks at all on this one. I just used Tamiya tape and eballed the layout, it's pretty much just straigh lines anyway although the front was trickier.