I am looking to paint "hot rod" style flames on a guitar body. I was wondering on how I should handle the masking of the flame.
Should I:
1- Prime the body, outline the flame shape with tape then mask the inner portion of the flame with tape and apply color to the rest of the body. If this happens, I would have to then unmask the inner portion of the flame, mask the rest of the body and then color the flame.
2- Prime the entire body. Then put my first layer of color over entire guitar. Once that has cured. One layer of clear, then allow that to cure then outline my flames and mask rest of body. Then I would shoot the flame color.
Which way is better and how long to allow for total cure? I don't want lines to appear in my color coats from masking.