With my ants is it usually transparent or what colour the tape is when I put is together (black, red or silver then).

Pillow Torque-
3 coats of Plastikote metalic blue / metalic burgandy + 3 coats clear lacquer over 2 coats white primer over 1 coat acid-etch primer, baked at 60 degrees for 1.5 hours.

That is the most detailed paint job I ever heard. Before it used to be Undertaker in RW S3. I wonder How muck work went into the paint of Elvis back in both S1 and S2?