[Dion Hildebrandt]

With the candy red it would depend on what brand of candy concentrate you are using and if the base coat is solvent based or waterborne.

Solvent based base coat ,you can turn the candy into a basecoat with the appropriate toner. Sikkens brand had a base modifier that was clear and it would carry the candy concentrate and would apply and dry ("flash") as a normal base coat. The GREATLY simplified candy layer applications.

With waterborne base coats, you would have to do a traditional candy application with mixing the concentrate into the clearcoat itself.

With that being said ,if you are using a waterborne base coat I would apply the candy red graphics first. For two reasons
1- these may be smaller coverage so the "smallest" color gets applied first and masked first
2- with the ground color ,candy clear ,and two coats of clear coat there will be a thick edge left behind. If you do the silver color after all of that you can recover some of the height difference between the graphics, helping with the final clearcoat coverage at the end

If it is a solvent based base coat ..
-apply the silver let it flash and sit for an hour (in a garage with heat) or run the booth bake cycle
-mask and apply the candy (if it is a base coat format) let it flash, or bake
-unmask ,tack rag, detail check for bleed through (fix any issues) , tack again and clear coat

I would suggest the house of color candy system as this system has all of the science worked into the products and is really user friendly. It costs but you get what you pay for.

good luck and make sure you show us some photos of the paint work progress.