The instructions have you paint the black first, mask and then spray the silver. This time around I sprayed the silver first. It's a little riskier this way, sometimes silver paint gets marred by the adhesive side of masking tape.
This was a tough mask, it's a smaller model with a lot of pieces in the way.
Here's the low rudder fin mask.
Scotch tape goes down first, then masking tape and finally grocery bags.
After removing the grocery bags and larger masking tape pieces you get to check the real mask line.
The corner of the Scotch tape strip is lifted with the tip of a knife blade being careful not to scratch the silver paint.
Long tweezers grab and pull off the strip.
After the tape was pulled I noticed I didn't get a full black cover near the front leading edge. I cheated with a broad permanent marker after masking off the root edge.
I should have used Scotch tape for a better seal. There was a little bleed under the tape. In the end I'll probably use a strip of black decal to even out the line.
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