[basketcase]

To me a gloss clear over patina just looks fake. If you need to clear it please do flat clear so it looks real, sort of. As someone who has been painting cars for years I know that any time you paint over rust sooner or later, usually sooner, the paint is going to bubble and flake off. I think we will see the day when there are a lot of cleared original patina paint jobs bubbling and flaking. Then what do you do? No way to save the patina while removing the bad clear.