![]() If it's so rusty that buffing and wax are pointless, then I feel like it's beyond "preserving". Putting clear coat over the top looks dorky to me and isn't really keeping it from getting rustier (think about painting over rusty body panels, that doesn't stop the rust, why would clearcoat?) ![]() I agree with those that say clean the surfaces however you can (buffing is great on paint, rougher areas are going to need to be scrubbed with SOS or something) and then a couple coats of wax. Just my two cents, and if you ask my friends, I generally tend to talk out of my ass most of the time. A dent is way better looking than cleared, sanded bondo (a gain, remember to employ that grain of salt to this post because I tend to talk a lot.). Oh, and if you're going for a cleared over patina look, please don't clear over sanded bondo. I suppose linseed oil would be a better approach than WD-40, but will still give you issues if you want to paint the car down the road. You may end up with fisheyes and all other sorts of nastiness from residues you're not going to be able to scrub out of pitted or flaking rust. You are going to be really pissed if you use WD-40 and ever hope to paint the car down the road. If you absolutely want to go the patina route, I would clean the hell out of it, use a satin or flat clear to protect and encapsulate the the metal and what's left of the paint. We have to remember that true "survivor" cars still have original paint, albeit thin in some places. "Less is more" wins every time, I suppose. Folks do the same thing when they are "weathering" a scale model. If you're going to the trouble of beating bent rusted metal out then clearing it, why not add the extra steps of priming, sealing, and painting?Īnd the guys that do fake patina (they are artists in their own right) rarely get the look of a "survivor" right. I've seen laser straight body panels with surface rust and paint chips sealed under high gloss clear (there's one particular mid-60s Chevy C10 pickup I've seen that comes to mind). Gloss clear over rust and flaking paint just looks dumb. The problem I see with the patina look (and this is just my opinion so take it with a grain of salt) is that folks tend to overdo it and then throw two gallons of clear at it.
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