Stop in for a cup of coffee

Love the old Lacquer days was easy. You can do the new base color and base clear over that then sand and clear coat with the new clears.
Also a good one is to paint the color on then clear coat and after it's dry sand it re clear coat but the first coat of clear add a bit of base color on the first coat then 2 coats of just clear over that. Really brightens the color up.

I ended up doing 2 coats of epoxy primer, 2 coats of base and 2 coats of gloss ....

For my first time out it was OK enough. Kinda like my welding