Hey guys!

I Did a simple ship but now i want to texture it, I've seen people that put different colors to the sides they are going to texture and then adding a checker texture to it to see if the shape is deformed.

Question:

Is there always 2 steps to texture?
1 - color you models sides for texture
and
2 - Apply checkers


After I colored the different parts, do I layout each colored part separately or all at once? I want make a uv snapshot and create the texture in Photoshop.... then hopefully do a planar mapping.

As always Thanks in advance....