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At this point, if you want to just leave your car a solid color, then skip to the next page. But if you want to add graphics, you should first reassemble the body pieces of the car (make sure it is completely dry first!). Using that same plastic tape, mask off the parts of your graphics that you do not want painted. Here, I am masking off the racing stripes.

 

Since the plastic tape is not the cheapest tape out there, you can now use your cheaper masking tapes to cover the rest of the car.

 

I have added a few drops of white to my black paint to get a dark grey for the stripe color. Lightly spray on your color until it is even from front to back (unless you are doing a paint fade like with the 2 Fast 2 Furious Skyline graphics).

 

When that is dry, you can pull off the masking tape and the plastic tape used for the graphics. Just make sure to leave the window tape on. If you are sure it is completely dry, sand the graphics with 1000 or 1500 grit sandpaper to take off the edges the masking created.

 

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