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Create an Overspray Flap

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5 Fast Tips for Masking! Hacks to Make you a Better Painter.

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  • Hand masker (optional)
  • Masking paper
  • Painter's tape (blue or green FrogTape)

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But with oilbased paints, one thing you always have to be concerned about is overspray. If it's too windy, you don't want to paint. One thing you can do, here's a little trick is to keep you can tack your paper like this. Now it'll create a flap opposite side. So you bend it and it'll create a flap just like that to help stop overspray. So show you what that looks like right here. Keep overshay from shooting up this direction. Take your paper just like that. pack it just like that. So it creates this flap now for the overspray to hit. I if I wanted to control the overspray from going down that direction, I could do the same thing here. If I was really concerned, I'm not concerned about it, but I was concerned about it. I would fold this over like this, Now it just creates this flap sticking up in the air.

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