Can you lacquer over stickers

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Ok More information. Page: 1. Posts: Likes received: Im tempted to try and paint the stripes, but that may be a bit extreme, too much chance to get it wrong. The other thing is decal thickness. I wasn't aware you had to wait so long,glad i asked now. I'm sort of split between lacquering over them or not. If i was to sell it maybe people would think it would be a half arsed way of doing it if i 'didn't' lacquer over the decals,or maybe they would think it was more convenient 'not' to have them covered so they were easily replacable?.

Most bike manufacturers only lacquer over the tank transfers, the rest are applied after paint. So if thats your worry, just stick them on when the paint job is finished. Apply the lacquer either Thursday or Friday night. Finish assembly Monday or Tuesday. The engine, chassis, and interior are all ready done. The decals, gloss coat, and body is all that's left. And since I've previously built AMT's '40 Willys in the past, finial assembly should not present any real problems.

I'd echo the above -- do three or four light "mist coats" first, to seal the decals before you apply any "wet coat". The solvent may be milder than many, but it's still highly volatile stuff, and you don't want any chance of the solvent moving the decal ink around As of this morning, I just went down stairs to bring Cruly's Gasser up from getting its lacquer gloss coat, done yesterday.

I'm happy to report that everything went well. The clear coat did nothing bad to decals at all. Everything looks great! Sprayed it on pretty heavy strait from the can too.

I always spray clearcoat over decals. My favourite is any gloss 2K clearcoat. I buy it in local carpaintshop. Mixing ratio is about parts of clearcoat : 1 part hardener :1,5 part thinner. Fixing dodgy decals could be way easier than fixing dodgy lacquering, which will be extremely easy to do…. Just to add I got decals from Gil m used him for couple of years decals of high quality and lacquer friendly..

It is possible to scalpel-cut around a lacquered decal and cut it out,done this my self. If decal is in a wear area just cover in heli tape to protect.

Hope this helps.. Yes mine are single colour vinyl and Gil did say no need to lacquer..