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Painting Stucco. Adding accent colors to stucco trim.

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Immediately after applying the highlight paint, while it is still wet, carefully remove all masking tape and paper. This critical step ensures that a clean, crisp line is achieved between the two colors, preventing paint from drying and bridging across the tape, which can lead to tearing or an uneven edge. Pull the masking material away from the painted surface smoothly.

Goal: Reveal sharp, clean paint lines for the stucco highlights.

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Now we got this whole band sprayed. And while the paint's still wet, we're going to go ahead and start pulling off our mask. Got our masking all off. And now those are drying. By masking it and spraying it, it's going to give you a nice crisp, clean line on your stuckco. Here we're using a cardboard shield instead of masking off the rock on the bottom. We've got a masking 9-in paper masking on top and tape to create a nice crisp line. And then we're using a cardboard shield along the bottom to keep it off the rock. There's a nice good lip underneath to get the cardboard shield tucked under. some stuckco highlights here that we're working on. It's a second color and we don't have to mask to get crisp lines. We're just using a cardboard shield cuz it overhangs. We've got the underside. You can see this. So, we want a nice good straight line under here. So, we've used our 9-in masking and 1-in tape to mask this here. And we're spraying this right here. While this band, highlight band is still wet, we've actually gone and now pulled off the masking in case we have paint bridge from the masking to our surface. Although you typically don't have that bridging problem with flat paints, but we just pull the masking off while it's wet as it's just good practice. Is the finished product right here. It's already been sprayed. Get up closely. You can see nice crisp line created with our masking tape. Instead of using a brush and roller, we use mask.

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