I have a few questions about painting polycarbonate body's with rattle cans. I've painted a few before and on them all I cut out the body before painting it. Is this the best way? Because sometimes the knife can mess up the protective film on the body's so I was wondering if it's better to paint the body then cut it out. What do you guys do? And when using masking tape for patterns do you cut the tape or use smaller pieces of tape to match the pattern outline? And do you wash the body then mask it or maske it and then wash it? Because I feel like I touch the body a lot when I'm masking it (I haven't had any problems yet with paint not sticking but I would love to avoid it. ) Thats all I had but if you seasoned pro's have any extra advice I would love to hear it!