Hi: I've never painted before except for spray bombs. I have a Bronco II with two tone paint (light tan at the bottom and the rest is black). I bought the paint and related materials at the auto paint shop and they scanned the tan to get a blendable match, the black is a standar color code. The door is ready to paint and is all now gray primer. How should I do the two tone? Do I spray the area with the tan color then after the wait time mask off that lower area and do the balance of the door? Or do I need to paint the entire outside of the door with the tan before masking what I want to stay tan? When the door was sanded it was taken down to metal to do dent repair and bondo work and I don't remember seeing the tan under the black base. Besides the lower tan area there are two thin pin stripes up top (have 3M fine line tapes for those). I just don't want to have noticable color changes in the black if that would happen with the tan only being in the lower area and a small shot across the upper part. Thought this would save having to shoot the entire door with the rather exspensive tan color (custom mixed).
Hope someone can help me get going in the right direction here, so hopefully I don't need to sand it all back off and start over.....

 

Are you painting with 2 stage or single stage paint?

 

Two stage Dupount finishes.

 

Paint the tan base coat first only where it is required and when dry enough mask off that area and then paint paint the black base coat next. The time you have to wait before masking off s/b in Duponts spec sheets. I also think there is a low tack masking tape available so you dont pull the paint off when you remove the tape. Use auto body masking tape. If you dont load up your base coats at the edges where they meet the clear should cover/ bridge the edges and the pinstripe tape should also help hide any ridges.