Painting over exsisting paint?

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jonny5

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Im looking to paint flames on my new truck. Does anyone know when doing this, do you have to wet sand the whole area and then rebasecoat it the factory color before puting flames where you want them? or can you just layout the flames and wetsand the flame area? Any input would be greatly appriciated.
 

Osh

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Don't see why you can't do it as long as you don't wetsand thru the factory clearcoat.Use 1000# to sand with and be carefull when you reclear because it tends to run easier where theres no fresh bascoat.
 

rex

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If you've ever blended and cleared a panel treat it the same way.I DA it with 600 and wet scuff it with a grey Scotchbrite pad to clean it up.I only sand it to level out any peel but stay off any edges,that's what the scuffy will abrade as it cleans the dust out of the DA marks.Of course you can wetsand it instead of DA but treat it the same and I'd maybe go to 800 if you want to spend the extra time.To clarify,wet scuff the whole thing,the sanded areas get cleaned of residue and the edges get abraded without the wory of knocking the clear down to the base so you have to dust on some color to fix it and most likely have a color change-basically nothing matches nowadays other than buying a factory pac color compared to the mixed paint from the store.(Mixing systems at bodyshops or the paintstore are missing about 1/2 the tints to make the color because alot of them will go bad by the time you use them all.PPG's DBC line has about 45+ tints in the mixing rack and factory packs are made out of about 100+ tints.Just economics.)

Edited-I said sanding through the base to sealer but it should have been as stated now.
 
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