Thanks again Pat.

OK, time for more questions.

On the painting with the HOK colors. How bad are they for you and do you, use a respirator, paint outside, have a paint booth, or anything else that I should know about these. And if I wanted to use other paints like the Auto Air Colors, since they are water-based and less dangerous to health, would they mix ok with the HOK. Thinking of doing the HOK black pearl and metalume for the 3D highlights but the other paints for the base colors, etc. I looked at the auto air aluminum fine and it looks like it would work, except for the fact that it is very delicate to touch; masking over it doesn't sound like an option. So that means that I would most likely have to clear-coat over every layer of the aluminum paint, or just skip it all together.

on the cutting of the masking on the corners, on the post right above, how do you make the first cut against the surface of what you are painting, so as not to damage, slice, leave a mark, etc.

Otherwise, seems easy to follow, probably hard to duplicate. Also, if I am going to learn to use an airbrush correctly anyways, think I will go with the dual action and sell my single action kit. no sense learning to do something twice.

Cheers,
Doug