Painting a car with black and gold stripes-which comes first?

[russosborne]

Hurst Hairy Oldsmobile in case you are wondering.

So the car is either black with gold stripes, or gold with black stripes.

My thinking is to paint the body black and then mask for the gold. Only due to the experiences I've had with gold paint in the far past. All I see in my mind when thinking of masking the gold paint is how much would lift off when removing the tape.

Any thoughts as to whether this order is ok or not? Will be using some sort of rattle can paint, I'm open to ideas for brands here.

Normally I wouldn't even bother, but this is one of the cars I want to have the right colors on. One of my dad's best friends from Ohio is Bob Riggle (Hemi Under Glass), so as a kid in the 60's I had tons of stuff from Hurst like press kits for the cars. Wish I still had all that. Anyway, I want to have this car look good on the shelf.

Thanks,

Russ

[Casey]

Based on the location of the paint breaks at the sharp bodyline, I would paint the gold first, then the black. I think it would be much easier to apply masking tape to the outside radius sections on the gold side than the inside radius sections if you were to paint the black first. The hood, roof, and trunk sections appear to be mostly straight lines, but the gold/black break on the bodyline is the tricky area:

 

[High octane]

What Casey had said, and remember that after the gold has dried and you mask it off to spray the black, shoot some clear along the tape lines first so that IF there's any bleed through under the tape it will be clear and not black.

[russosborne]

Thanks, guys.

That's what I get for thinking.

Russ