Unfortunately the model has suffered a major paint disaster.

First, I tried repairing my painted roof stripes and wasn't happy with the result.

So I ended up stripping the stripes with minimal damage to the light blue (which I have already resprayed).

But then, because I'm worried about the cracking, I tried sealing the door decals with some clearcoat - Krylon Crystal Clear

I sprayed the front end of the car body with it too.

First coat went on fine, it seemed, but then second coat reacted with the blue paint.

Everything went wrinkly.

Everything except where the decals are. Weird.

I'm going to try wet sanding...I've already done a little.

I need to stay away from these old decals, and I've already burnt through some of the light blue and red paint.

Easy touchups...if I have the paint.

I am almost out of the light blue, and since that was a custom mix, theres no way I can match it.

If I don't have enough, I will have to respray the entire body with a new light blue mix.

Then theres the clearcoat...I had good luck spraying some Acrylic Lacquer earlier.

Its a spray bomb, but I sprayed into a small paint jar...then added some reducer...then sprayed it through my Infinity airbrush.

Worked a charm on the chassis over decals, so I will respray the messed up body parts with that.

No more Krylon clear.

I wish I had ordered some Aqueous gloss clearcoat in the beginning.