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Fellow scooter fanatics, looking for a little info and advice. Currently working on doing some nice detail painting on a derby cover that I had Story engrave.

My question, or lack of knowledge, comes in the form of what layer of paint do i lay down first? The derby cover is black the engraved parts will be white and red. Should I do the black first and then white and red or vise versa? Or does it even matter?

Any advice is helpful, as there is a lot of taping/masking involved due to a lot of detail in the image.

Sorry for no pics will post in Derby **** when done.
 
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