Can you color sand metallic paint

Now, after only the briefest of web searches, I've read the exact opposite from more than one source, i. So, before I mess up a perfectly good colour coat, which is it? Jul 20, 2. Posts: 1, Practice on a piece of scrap wood Have fun. Jul 20, 3. In my limited experience, two bodies with a metallic color coats, you do not sand metallics until many many layers of clear have gone on.

If you do it will ruin the flake suspended in the color. I needed to sand a purple metallic coat I put down on a mini strat body I'm currently covering with purple glitter because the glazing compound I used to fix a divot popped up something fierce.

It was not pretty at all, I knew it would happen and I'd be recoating it, the purple color came off the flake which turned silver after sanding. Jul 20, 4. Posts: 6, Jul 20, 5. It's a copper metallic, not metalflake. This may be down to my sanding technique, I guess! Either way, I wasn't sure whether clearcoating on top of this was likely to improve it, or if it would just highlight the inconsistency of the wet sanding even more using , by the way.

Jul 21, 6. Jul 21, 7. Posts: 11, As a rule I never sand any color coat unless there is a hair or something in it. Even then I always go back over with another color coat. I only sand the sealer, maybe the primer if necessary and the clear, not the color. Jul 21, 8. I'm with the above Sanding Metallic paint? Joined: May 1, Messages: 2, Location: Sydney Hey all I've got another question, with my modding quest showing in my thread, Project n-TrAnCe-D I have a question about metallic paint. Upon spraying one panel, the paint has tiny tiny bits of metal, to make it metallic and i was hoping to achieve a mirror finish.

If its not, is there any way to make it shiner? As it is at the moment, its not very shiny and reflective which is bad. Thanks for your help. Last edited: Apr 23, I've shot some MCW Silver Mocha and it seems to have gone on a little grainy, I'd appreciate any help in fixing the problem. Thanks again. If your paint is too rough you can sand it flat but then you have to apply one more coat of the metallic paint.

This all of course means that you have to clearcoat the metallic or mica paint and do all the sanding and polishing on the clear in order to achieve the shine. Good luck! Pretty much, but also depends on how grainy the surface is.