I get a lot of comments about the paint job on my OES board (refer to my avatar) - love your work ..... happy with how the board goes too!
Excellent skills.
But I am afraid that in near future all this will be lost to the computer printing.
Air brush multi color ink jet printer that could print on any 3D objects.
If not exist yet , will be soon invented.
Around 15 mins to tape off bottom, then arrange all paints and tapes , what you saw on the video took 2 hours to spray this board.
Not bad mate, it's definitely fun painting boards and you can burn up a lot of hours if you get carried away, done a few 8 hour sprays, and couple even longer.
A tip from one painter to another (you Prob know this though) I switched to using the 3m green paper tape in the 3mm and 5mm from the blue fine line stuff, its a hell of a lot cheaper, easier to use and I find if your doing curves like flames etc it sticks better on the tight bits, the paint edge is still pretty good too and I don't feel bad when I'm not happy with the whole layout and rip it off and start all over again.
Also have you used application tape? that stuff is good and you can draw on it and cut out what you want. 
Thanks Jason, I have always admired your art and painting skills from afar for a while now also.
Yes its is fun to finally brake the shackles and be free to do what you like or customer wants when it come to the painting stage of the boards build process. The majority of the board building process is down to mm and ml , so its very restrictive.
I try to keep the painting process to around 2 to 3 hour max by using basic shapes and colour contrasts to get more bang for your buck. The KISS [Keep It Simple Stuipid ] and Less is More theory was worked well for me over the years of painting boards. I prefer to just start laying down tape freehand and build the artwork from there.
Regarding tapes, I always used hi temp auto masking tape and the 3 mm 6 mm and 12 mm blue fine line tape, as you know, there's nothing worse then paint bleeds due to poor quality tapes. However I have just started using this green paper tape also for basic straight line tape offs, may switch over if it proves as you say, just as good in tight curves.
The masking off, as you well know, is the major time burner of the painting process, so I either use plastic film , paper and application tape depending on what artwork I am painting and is going to make the process quicker. While I use plastic film most of the time , i find paper is better for masking off single objects as the paper is more ridged once cut to tape onto compared to plastic film [see Star spray below]. I use application tape for all our stickers and blue mask film for the OES bottoms , but because of the cost of application tape i keep its usage to the minimum on the deck sprays.
Artwork is the very first thing people see and this forms their first opinion of this board regardless of it shape or construction. I was lucky enought to meet Wade Easterling [Hi TECH boards] in the late 80 and early 90 on Maui who told me this and then was good enought to show me some of his painting tips. Walking into a showroom full of Hi tech boards with his airbrushed artwork proved his point. Nano [Quatro board ] is another great board airbrusher , knows this also, so spends alot of time an effort with his eyecatching artwork. I use Nano when I am on Maui for my board sprays and never been disappointed with his work. The last thing I want is to have any of our boards all look the same with a standard production board look. Never understand why any body would want to rock up to a beach and see 10 other boards looking exactly the same as theirs. Dare to be different !!
I posted this video a couple of weeks ago on the SA forum.
