each coat has dried some since if you did it right. You don't do each layer one right after the other. But like I said, you are supposed to peel the paint ASAP. I am a model car builder and painting is my forte, I have done this many times. Think about it. If you let the paint dry, it's gonna dry on the tape too so when you go to peel it, you get what you got. But if you would have peeled it while it was still fresh, it would have came up just fine and not peeled at all.