What's the best way for shooting paint on a hinge fender?

[DanM]

I think the answer is just enough paint to cover. Set a mask on the hinge and only remove for last coat of primer. Set a mask on and only remove for the last coat of paint. Same to make little circles of mask over rivet heads. Don't let them get buried under all the layers. This gives just enough paint to cover the hinge and rivets.

[Robert Luland]

Come on Dan, They were in the business of building motorcycles as fast as they could get them off the line. Mask? No. The minute Surge finished spraying that fender it was gone and never to be heard from again.

[Chris Haynes]

Can't really tell what stage they're at in the photo. They may have been primed open, now being primed closed. Look at the vats of paint. Colors would not have been sprayed on an assembly rack. Two tones had to be masked ect. although I never opened a factory paint fender, I'm sure I wouldn't see bare metal.

This picture was from 1939 where fenders were a solid color.