Enerjet News, Mercury Little Joe I, Part 9, Mask and Paint

Normally you'd paint the base color (silver) then mask and paint the secondary colors.
TIP: Setting masking tape set over metallic paints can mar the silver. I'll have to do the reverse on this one, paint the orange and mask it off. The silver color will go on second.

The assembly already got an undercoat of white. The body was masked off with the fin exposed to be painted orange.

Here's the orange fin after the mask was removed.

The orange fin was covered. The body was sprayed Rusto 2X Silver Aluminum.

The final colors after the fin mask was pulled.