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Michael Kohl
loads of work, but amazing result. I was going to ask whether you do not have difficulties masking your paint and I never see someone paint over a pigmented surface, but the effect proves you right. Excellent build.

Nikolajs Negeriss
Hi Michael, thank you for kind words.
Yes, I face some problems with masks. First of all, Chrome-painted areas are very sensitive and I tried to minimize stickiness of masks by applying on my hands couple of times.
Second, I use cellophane film to protect large areas around piece of model where I paint with stencil masks. This allows to minimize amount of masking tape used and therefore minimize risk of chrome surface distortion.
Also I had 2 sets of masking stencils from different tape. And I found that one of tapes impact surface too bad. And good one was Oramask 810. And I use it for other projects too.
And of cause I had to be very pedant in preparation of surface for every layer of paint starting from primer till chrome - this was to ensure paint will have enough adhesion and will not peal off when I remove masking tape from surface.
Working with masking stencils is not easy task but it opens a lot of possibilities for creativity.

Good luck to all,
Nik