If your into bashing and scratching your rig all up then I would deffinently go with a stage one. If you put a clear on and shoot it yourself, any time you may want to tuch it up then you will always have to clear a major section of the vehicle to blend the clear. Flat paint you can just shoot it and that's all she wrote. that is kind of the way I see it. I am going to do it nice once and whatever happens happens. As far as I am concerned the beauty marks I get after the paint will only make it look a little more natural.