Two Tone Wet Sanding

[Rambling Wreck]

Does anyone know if my colors will run (bleed together) if I try to wet sand where I have two different colors of paint? The attached picture shows the area I want to sand so that it is smoother and cleaner (hopefully) looking.

 

[eagle4g63]

As long as they are enamel paints, they shouldn't bleed or mix with each other.......Also they need to be good and dry. Ive wet sanded many 2 tone single stage paint jobs.

Of course they were also gloss paint.....but I don't think there should be a problem.

If you really want to know......just paint a scrap piece of metal with both paints(just next to each other or in a stencil like you did) and try that piece first.

 

[Rambling Wreck]

I tried a test area and they did bleed a little.

 

[doghead]

Why wetsand at all? It's an MV!

 

[papabear]

Why wetsand at all? It's an MV!

Agreed...unless I missed something the pic looks good to me.

I'm afraid if you start messin around and sanding etc., you are gonna have a mess!

I've learned to leave "good enough" alone and leave "Perfect" to God!

 

[Rambling Wreck]

Yeah, I already messed it up a little bit. The wet sanding was needed because I had some run marks from the stencils I used. Didn't have to be perfect but it would have bothered me. Also, I plan on using this truck to tail gate at Georgia Tech football games and I want it to look fairly good ("Rumblin Wreck" is a play on the "Ramblin Wreck" from Georgia Tech mascot car (see avatar)) .

I had some places on my doors that I just couldn't get the new paint to blend because the surface was so rough in spots. I wet sanded the doors and hit them with a few coats of flat paint and they looked very uniform in color while still having a rough, flat look. That is what led me to contemplate wet sanding the lettering.