Before picking up a spray gun, Townsend recommends painters choose
a path that works best with their air flow. He works from the back of his
spray booth to the front, starting at the farthest point from the exhaust
of the booth’s ventilation system. This pulls the paint from the gun,
across the body and to unpainted areas, then out of the booth. Spraying
the opposite direction would leave overspray on freshly painted areas
and result in “dry-looking” or mottled sections in the paint.
Townsend would be spraying the Mustang in a transparent metallic
base coat, so he applied a tinted sealer over the primer first. The closer
in color the sealer being sprayed is to the base, the less material is
required to cover the body.
Between spraying the base coat and primer, a tinted sealer was
sprayed on the body. It appears pink here.