Best way to mask headlight openings when painting headlight buckets

[70RTSE383]

How do you mask the headlight opening in the headloght surrounds? Does someone make a mask for this? I cant imagine using tape for this.

[Brads70]

I taped mine. At the local body shop supply they sell 1/8" tape (and up) . This makes it much easier to tape off.

[GoodysGotaCuda]

I would use plastic tape, it will work well on those curves then fill in the rest with standard blue tape.

[Rich G.]

Cup of coffee , roll of good tape and some good background music and tape away. Well that's what I had to do anyway.

[70RTSE383]

My concern in not down inside the ring around the light, thats easy. The thing is the transition from flat face 90 degrees into the ring around the opening. There is a little border that should be masked. When I looked at a NOS piece in the photo here I noticed that the factory really didn't seem to worry about that very much. Maybe I am over analyzing this. The original ones on the car (black) seemed very well masked but I removed the paint during repair of them.

[GY3R/T]

     Stuff a nerf football in the holes and spray away.  Once Paint is dry, take a paper towel, get part of it wet with Acetone and wipe to get the proper reveal/edge around the opening.     
   Painted edge never had a defined edge.

[Topcat]

Doing Grille parts are a PITA.

Re did my 71' grille was a ton of time.

I'm sure nothing compared to restoring a Sharktooth grille.

[JS29]

3M fine line tape, green 3m tape also molds around corners well. 

[RUNCHARGER]

Yes: Tape is actually not that bad for this.

[70RTSE383]

Ok doesn't seem like a big deal after all. A lot like my unused se fear finish panel. The top paint border doesnt even look like it was masked at all. Thanks for all your help

[RUNCHARGER]

It's pretty easy to keep your quality better than OEM quality.