Two Tone BC/CC methods

[msg]

Stumbled in here, the two tone restoration I am now doing on my 66 fleetside will also have a white top and the white stripes on the side in between the chrome, plus the tailgate lettering. As a newbie I am so glad I read this information. I will need to sort out though when to spray the white strip on the doors, fender and hood, but I know Ill be shopping for some fine line tape!

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by msg

Stumbled in here, the two tone restoration I am now doing on my 66 fleetside will also have a white top and the white stripes on the side in between the chrome, plus the tailgate lettering. As a newbie I am so glad I read this information. I will need to sort out though when to spray the white strip on the doors, fender and hood, but I know Ill be shopping for some fine line tape!

Usually I would say spray the overall color then the white being the white is small, but yours is really small compared and I am thinking it takes more masking but check this out. You have the whole truck just prior to prepping for paint, all in primer let's say. You mask off to paint the white but only with like foot wide paper just so you don't have direct overspray on the primer surrounding the white. The overspray past that paper, who cares, you are going to be sanding it for paint anyway right?

So you put the little paper around the white areas and paint and clear them. Then sand the truck for painting the other color leaving of course the white untouched. You then cover the white areas with paper and shoot the truck the primary color and unmask the white and wham, done.

Especially with the white roof this works good because you don't have to worry about the hood and what ever is below it getting damaged.

Brian

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Yeah I have a fully dismantled truck and single car garage so I will be painting part for part and then re assembling, so I had thought to in the case of the cab mask off the part that gets the contrasting color (in my case metallic saddle) and spray the white first. In fact I wondered if I even needed to mask it off at all? Maybe instead just shoot the white on the top and where the stripes wrap around the backside of the cab. Then mask off for the saddle color. I was worrying about the hard edge that would form if I were to mask the white areas, then spray,then pull that tape off and masking and then have to re tape that same edge to shoot the saddle.

[MARTINSR]

BE SURE TO READ THIS THREAD!

> http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=746922


No really, if you are painting in pieces be sure to read that thread.


Brian

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Brian, Im the same guy youve helped in that thread

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by msg

Brian, Im the same guy youve helped in that thread

Ohhhh, did you read it?

Brian

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Yes sir, and re read it a few times. I'll follow up with you there...sorry to high jack the thread 72step