Steve,

It appears that after you sanded the primer (gel coat) down you didn't lay a base white coat down and then paint your colors over it. In fact, it appears that you're not painting any colors over colors but rather tape right up to a pre-painted line and shoot the next color. Is this correct? (Was that question even coherent?)

The reason I ask is that I normally paint one color and overlap it slightly into where the next color will be then tape over the previous color to paint the next one. This clearly adds additional weight but I’ve always been worried that trying to tape EXACTLY to the seam of the last color wouldn’t work well as I may have small gaps. Can you describe what you do, I’d like to save the weight penalty of overlapping, but I’m not sure how to go about it.

BTW, what type of PPG paint are you using DCC ?

Thanks,
Keith B