I would go with hand painting it. I tried taping off the stripe on my Ukraine YPR- 765A1 a while ago and after about half of it, I abandoned it and went with hand painting the stripe. I couldn’t get the tape to conform around bumps and protrusions and ended up covering up more overspray than if I had just started with a hand painted stripe. The original stripes would most likely have been hand painted with a brush anyways, so it looks better and more realistic in the end.
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