Can you sand through individual layers of car body paint to expose layer underneath?

[gasket999]

Hi folks.

I have an old Land Rover which is being restored to quite a wonderful standard. All steelwork is being blasted, repaired galved and then painted to ensure it lasts and is not obviously repaired. The original galvanised cappings have a great 'aged' look so are being kept.

However, when it comes to the aluminium, I'd like its battle scars as the paint is not really necessary.

The look I'm going for is the patinad old look of a working truck like this albeit with a perfectly restored and rust-proof steel skeleton.

The car was originally (in 1972) green but was over painted blue in the 1980s. The new paint and the green paint has rubbed thru to base alloy in places and I would like to get rid of the blue and just keep the old battle-damaged green paint.

So is it possible to remove the blue paint without completely removing the green paint underneath - obviously some loss is expected.

I'd also consider paint strippers, etc too.

Thank you.

 

[Delta]

I guess it's possible, it would just take a lot of patience to carefully sand it down.

 

[brightspark]

I guess it's possible, it would just take a lot of patience to carefully sand it down.

and if its allready been flatted down before respray it might be back to the primer in places

 

[Delta]

Very true, you could unearth all sorts of other things too like previous repairs, filler etc.

All good for the Rat look!

 

[sean-1]

plastic media blasting can remove one layer of paint at a time only problem its expensive and there are only a handful of people in the country who do it.

 

[FranV8]

I think you can quite straightforwardly, by using quite fine wet and dry and being careful. It'd take time.

 

[Delta]

plastic media blasting can remove one layer of paint at a time only problem its expensive and there are only a handful of people in the country who do it.

Would Soda blasting do it?

 

[brightspark]

Would Soda blasting do it?

yup if u have the pot and comp and a stack of cash and time. it costs about 25 quid a 25kg bag and its not re usable

 

[gasket999]

Thanks for the pointers folks. By the sounds of things it will largely depend on the quality of the respray in 1984. I think I will start with some careful wet-and-dry use and if it doesn't work I will carry on sanding ready for a full respray.

Many thanks.

 

[the snooper]

get ready for the full respray i doubt very much you will acheive anything worth while

 

[steveo3002]

id sand it up and repaint it the colour you want then age it it a bit , you can scotch pad the shine away , and rub through some edges if need be

or just wait for the patina to appear with time

 

[Chipper]

As above, paint it and take it laning a few times, get some battle scars on it. If you spray a thinnish coat instead of ladling it on with a brush or roller, it'll get some wear on it a lot sooner.
If I'd tried to get away with fake patina at our local club, the P taking would've never stopped