Everyone who has done this tends to come up with their own method (and sometimes tries new ones!). Here is how I did some Type III ‘s recently, this time using vinyl masks which give a beatiful crisp and prefectly curved edge – sorry I do not have the entire process covered but it gives you the basic idea. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to do this…..
In this particular sequence – the 2″ wide outer yellow ring was sprayed first using a vinyl mask. This was then roughly covered with tape and paper and an area of white sprayed in the general area of the inner white ring. At this point I left it to harden for 24 hours (was using a 2-pack polyurethene paint on this job). A pre-cut vinyl mask was then applied over the 2″ wide white ring – thats the light blue ring in the picture. This provides a perfect edge for the blue and red areas.
Second picture shows the yellow ring having been carefully reverse masked with lining tape (dark blue 3M vinyl stuff in this case as it gives a really clean edge). Despite using pre-cut masks you do have to apply one lining tape line with this method. At this point I had also sprayed the centre red area (having completely masked out the area that will later be sprayed blue and then, once that was dry, carefully pulled back the masking paper to completely cover the red area in a ‘cone’ ready to receive the blue.
Third picture – blue sprayed on – just waiting for it to dry to remove the centre paper cone to reveal the previously painted red.
Fourth picture – this is what you get at that point! You now have the satsifying task of pulling off the white ring mask to reveal the white are below (fifth picture)!
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