priming over pre-painted body??

[Canneth]

Sorry, this may be a stupid question,

i am beginning to work on one of those Pre-painted BTCC BMWs from Dragon and i wanted to build a street version instead. Should i just prime over the pre-painted body or strip the paint then prime?? Any one tried prime over the pre-painted body (yes i am lazy and don't want to go over the brake fuild process)?

Any idea?? thanks in advance

[mikemechanic]

I would strip it. Whatever you paint over top may react with the exsisting paint and cause you problems.

[MPWR]

1. if you can't be bothered to do something right, why bother doing it at all?

2. Why do people still think brake fluid is a good way to strip paint from plastic?

3. If you want to build a street BMW, why not start with a street BMW kit? Dragon, Hasegawa, Tamiya, and Revell have all made them for the E36, and they're not that hard to come by. The painted Dragon ETCC kits are rare enough and cool enough looking that I would leave it as is, and get another kit to build with it.

The short answer is, the Dragon prepainted kits are rare enough that few if any people have tried to paint over them. It's laquer, so logically, if you use anything but laquer over it, it shouldn't react. But I wouldn't try it.

[freakray]

Strip it for another reason, the more layers of paint you put on the more likely you are to lose detail.

That said, MPWR has a very valid point.