Flames were there - now gone!!

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Just finished painting my old pickup ('67 Chev C-10 stepside, shaved,dubs and bagged) withGlasurit BC/CC. Shot the base (red metallic) then two coats of SG100 interclear. Taped the flames and shot them (took 5 hours!). Scuffed the whole truck and sprayed 3 coats clear. So far, so good, except for the 20 runs, 3 bugs and bunch of orange peel.

Did HOK Kameleon (red-gold) flames, shadowed with Kandy Burgandy, on all 4 wheelwells and hood. After wetsanding by hand with 1000, 1200 and 1500 (16 hours, over 3 days), all the peel was gone. Compounded with a buffer (first time user) and OOPS, took off the middle section of the rear flames, just above the bodyline crease. I know now I should have been a lot more careful in this area, but it's too late for that now. I DID tape off all the edges and pointy high spots, but this was a low spot, just wasn't paying attention.

Anyhow, I did not break through to the base here, just sort of 'erased' the Kameleon in the middle of a set of flames. It looks strange now!!

Can anyone offer suggestions ?? Can I retape, scuff, respray the flames (I used an airbrush) and reclear?

Also: I did break through to the base in a few unnoticable areas (under bed rail). I've heard there's no way to accurately match the base again, especially with metallic, but can I just apply another coat or two of clear, just to protect the area?

Thanks

 

[ezrider]

seams like you can repair all of the above, blending is the method if your worried about matching the base color. scuff the panel with a wet gray scotch pad and rebase the damaged area stepping the color further out on each pass until the break through area are completely covered then reclear the whole panel. as far as the flame damage scuff the damaged panel like described above re tape the section of flames to be repared spot in the flames, pull of your masking , clean up the surface then reclear