Thread: Color sanding between Candy coats?

I am VERY new and practicing on ammo cans. I am working with Alsa paints and I didn't know if I should color sand between candy coats. Seems like a horrid idea color wise but I am not liking the smoothness either.

It sounds like your basecoat and or primer coat may not have been that smooth. Generally, the candy coats aren't that heavy, if your prior layers and the actual work surface were smooth and ready to go, then you shouldn't be to bad when you get to your candy coats. Keep in mind that your clear coats will be leveling a good bit of this out (if it is just the typical thickeness of the candy coats you are dealing with).

Are you using the candy coats for overall color or for artwork?

Here's the rub about candy paint. It dries tacky and you need to use 'intercoat' after you apply the candy color to your likeness. The intercoat can be applied before the candy is even dry, it helps prevent bleed through and contaminants from ruining the candy layer.

If your not going to spay any other colors over your candy (in case your doing fire) you can just do the clear coat as you normaly would do.