Originally Posted by
gugie
You can't do a powder clear coat over decals, agreed? To be precise, not without wrecking the decals.
I can put decals on powder coat, then wet paint over the decals (proper type of decals selected, of course). Everywhere I've read is that a wet coat over powder isn't very durable. One would think that you could scuff up the powder coat, put on the water slide decals, then rattle can clear coat over them. But I haven't run into any posts or pictures showing this done. It seems reasonable.
"Pics or it didn't happen". I'd like to ask the person that's done this how it turned out.
600/800/1200/1500/2000 the powder then clear (wet clear, not a powder clear). As you would do with any quality paint job.
But you will likely not find pics. Powder is used for good enough, its depth of color sucks. Powder is cheap. With good paint, with flake, pearl, translucence or depth, you use wet. If you are doing an expensive paint job, do it right with the above prescribed sanding. In a previous life I did the prep like that for several cars.