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Looks great!
Excellent save!Please correct me if I'm wrong but it looks as though you've got a significant lip between the graphics and colour because you used masks rather than stencils. That is to say, your layers were black paint>trek stickers on>flip paint>trek stickers off>clearcoat. Flip paint works because its translucent but this means you have to build it high for good coverage. You can see where the pearls in the product have gathered at the edge of your graphics.
The built edge lip is a combination of high build at the edge and the void left in the black.
Best practice for this product is black base>chromatic paint everywhere>full flowcoat clear>wet flat>airbrush branding with stencils>clearcoat. This way round will give a smoother, flatter finish.
You're absolutely correct on the next steps for making it smooth though; just build up some more clearcoat layers. When you're happy, you can gently cut the peel back and flatten it with 1200/1500/2000/3000 and then get some compound and polishing mops on there. The quality of your clearcoating will determine where in the process you should start wet-flatting.
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Take two of this paint job and the clear has gone much better. It still has a fair amount of texture to it though…does anyone have any tips on smoothing it out? Also there’s quite a level difference on the text, but it seems like it would be too big to wet sand to smooth it out - I’d be afraid of going through the clear. Do I just do another couple of layers of clear to make sure?