I won't be posting much for a while as I still have one more wing and both stabs to complete, which is just a repeat of what we have gone over so far.

Let's go over what I would call more advanced masking methods that will create very clean results in much less time.

As I said before, I am always trying to mask to not have two colors butt against each other. Painting pinstripes like I have done on the wings can be very time consuming if we don't plan them ahead. I will have several on the fuselage that I will show the following method of painting and masking.

I have attached two views. One looking at a cross section and the other viewed straight down.

Let's say we are doing a silver pinstripe and we will be painting yellow on one side of the pinstripe and blue on the other (which I will be doing). On the cross section view you can see how the silver is shot on the surface with no masking tape. You can see how it tapers out on each side and does not create a hard edge. What I then do is lay out the pinstripe by just covering the silver that has been painted.

What I would then do is mask one side off on top of the 1/8 inch pinstripe tape and shoot let's say yellow. I would then pull the masking, leaving the 1/8 inch tape. I would then mask back over the yellow on top of the 1/8 inch tape and shoot the blue on the other side.

Now when you pull all the masking we have an extremely clean (and uniform) 1/8 inch pinstripe with only an edge from the yellow and the blue to clean up.