Hopefully this isn't a topic hijack.
For Lee or Dave, or anyone else, after you have primed the shell and are ready to paint the primary colors, how do you tend to decide to:
1) tape off areas for painting separate colors directly on the primer coat, or
2)spray one color, then tape and spray the second color which on part of the shell, goes on top of the first color?
For example on the other thread Lee linked to on his Santa Fe locomotive, it looks like Lee used both methods. It looks like the cab (to be painted red) was masked off when the silver was painted, but on the tender, everything was painted silver, and then the red paint on the bottom section was painted on top of the silver paint.
Dave, on the CSX engine above, for the grey, blue, and yellow colors, in what order did you mask and paint?
With no practical experience, I'm think taping off lines looks like a real pain to do, so choosing a paint sequence that reduces the amount of taping might be beneficial, or do you want to minimize the layers of paint where colors are painted over other colors?
