Your method sounds correct for using wet-on-wet paint products. Using more clear lacquer now would probably cause the top layer of clear lacquer to lift off in time as these products really need to be used when the underlaying painted surfaces are still tacky. JM2PW!
IMHO, You'll never get this colour Sliver or any other metallic paint to match the rest of the cars paintwork when you go edge to edge on car panels though man of kent.
All quality bodyshops will always blend into the surrounding panels on a vehicle to help with a better looking colour match. In other words, say you replaced just the drivers front door on a Carlton? To get it to match, you would have to fade the colour into roughly half of the drivers side rear door and also into almost half of the driverside front wing too otherwise painting the door on its own
(i.e. edge to edge) would certainly make the drivers door stand out like a sore thumb. Is this the kind of result you are getting?
So the more panels you replaced on your vehicle, then theres more unreplaced original areas you would have to blend in a colour match by basically overspraying into a neighbouring panel. I hope that what I've written above makes sense???
As for the
"FLA" - Fat Ladies Ass paint finish, to avoid this you should always dust on the first few coats of clear lacquer...waiting about 10 to 15 minutes between coats before doing a final heavy coat of clear lacquer to finish up. When dry, use 1200 grit or higher rubbing down paper with lubricant VERY lightly to even out any uneven paint surfaces before finishing off with a suitable cutting compount and resin polish.
The thicker the layer of clear lacquer that is on a vehicle when you finish the wet-on-wet painting process, the better the final finish should be as you've got more clear lacquer to rub down/rub out any imperfections before polishing up the finished article.
HTH!
