ORIGINAL: jchildress21

It's not always necessary to do a lot of wet sanding. A lot of it has to do with you skill at laying down the clear coat. To answer your question, there is a difference in guns, however, you can get a quality finish with a less expensive gun. Just practice some before you commit to doing the work. The problem you're going to run into, is the fact you want part of your bike flat, and part a gloss blue. Most people try and bury their graphics in the clear so you don't feel the edge of the graphics. If you do a flat base, then want the blue to be glossy, it isn't going to work for you. You will feel the paint edge on it. The easy way around it, is to do your flat color, tape off your graphics, shoot them and clear them. Now, unmask everything and run a freehand pinstripe around the graphics. As a rule, you can't have flat & gloss in the same paint job with it all buried under the clear. It just doesn't work.