finish and paint bottom before bodywork?

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We do it in the opposite fashion. We do all of our floor prep and repair as well as our upper repairs, then go to epoxy. After epoxy , we seam seal all of our panels and complete our upper end and lower end bodywork. We perform all of the subsequent primer layers and blocking, go to paint, then Raptor line the bottom, then cut and rub the top. The reason we do this is twofold. 1- you can't tape on undercoating for a damn but you can mask on cured paint perfectly, and 2- you can't get overspray off of Raptor liner to save your life- you can only reapply it and spot it in. We paint about 15 Bronco bodies a year and ship them worldwide and this is how each is done. I have one customer who insisted he Raptor the bottom first, then did his body and paint and he regretted it. You just can't get all of that dust and overspray off of that high texture finish. Just my 2 cents. I'll be doing all three of my cars in this manor as well.