I shouldn't have trusted that my new blue low-tack masking tape was really low tack. Taped off the back and front so I could spray the sides black yesterday, and then put on a coat of the amber tinted clear first thing this morning so that it matched the black of the top and back.
Wanted to get the tape off ASAP so that I could then remove the masking tape on the binding whilst the paint was still relatively soft and didn't chip.
But I didn't expect the masking tape to leave such marks on the finish (the white dots are all dust and dry paint flakes left over from removing the tape and paper).
I knew the binding masking tape had come away in the concave curves a bit, so would have to scrape that, but there were also a few areas where the masking tape went in a touch further than the binding so I'll have to touch those up. In reality the masking tape marks aren't too bad (they just look worse than the regular orange peel marks) and will disappear when I clear coat and then sand back over the top after touching up the edges and scraping the binding. But it is disheartening. It's also 35°C in the back garden work area ATM, and trying to do anything in this weather is an effort. It makes the paint softer too. So the body will now hang up for a few days to let the paint harden more and I wait for this very hot weather to pass.
I've got a lot of clear coating to do on my other builds, but it's too hot to spray outside of the early morning and very late evening, and I can't be bothered to get the spray gun out for just a couple of sprays with all the cleaning up involved.
I know 35°C isn't that hot for a lot of the people here, but it is for the UK, and comes on suddenly with no time to acclimatise. I can't do much without sweat pouring off me, onto what I'm working on and also splatting on the inside of my reading/close-up glasses so I can't see what I'm doing.
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