Often encounter pple that asked how to do car modeling and afraid of finishing it nice and glossy.

Useful Reference:
FYI, Italian Horses: How to Apply, Polish, and Wax Your Paint to Perfection

Here's a step by step on how I do prepare the kit for gloss (some may have other methods)..

Note: All is done using Spray Cans

1. Wash the kit with soap if it is oily with mold release (but kits nowadays don't really have this problem)

2. Sand away mold lines from kit.

3. Prime the kit.
(IMPORTANT! Use White Primer for all colors unless u are doing a black or metallic color car so that your color can 'shine')

4. Mist Coat

5. Body Wet Coat

6. Gunze Lacquer Gloss (because i find it forms the hardest coat for wet sanding and polishing)

7. Ready for wet sanding and polishing :)

Below are the pics to show the difference between the layers.
(Tamiya Spray Can: Racing Blue)



Gloss, Body Wet Coat, Mist Coat, Primer, Bare Plastic


Now u can see the shine after the gloss


Before


After



What are Mold lines?

what is WET COAT, max?

Wet Coat is spraying the paint on the kit until it is almost look wet.

The coating will be thick.

Important to have minimum dust in the area when doing this.

thanks for the SBS article.. even though i'm not a car guy, this info helps alot

thanks...

huwaaa mr max,u sacrifice ur kit for show this tutorial.. :o
im apreciate it..
so max,how about aplying a decal..r u do all this step n then apply a decal..some article said u apply a decal b4 polish a body,clear coat it n polish it..im see to this step maybe hard to make a polishing step bcoz the decals n color not a same level.me,after a topcoat,polish it,put a decal n future the decal with flat brush
so how about ur technique..?

Decal and polishing comes in separate tutorials. Stay tuned.

Till then.. u can see my past tutorial on carbon fibre hood for cars.

http://www.outthere.info/evo_6/CFdecal.htm

After decal, one more gloss coat before polishing :)
http://www.outthere.info/evo_6/comp/page1.htm

ok,so for polishing cloth(pc),r u use modelling polishing cloth or auto pc or cotton rag..?
what clear coat u always use for ur car-future,model spray can,hardware spraycan or others..?

Thanks dude, can't believe u sacrifice a kit to show us the tips, really appreciate it.

Polishing I use a cotton rag

Gloss spray i use Gunze Spray Can gloss (as i find it the hardest when cure for wet sanding and polishing)

gunze spraycan? :unsure: (will go expensive next year).huhuhuuu..
so,for primer,base color n toapcoat,how many days u wait until to move for next step..i mean after u apply primer,how many days u wait until u lay next base color..?
how about waiting time between mist n wet coat..?

1. Primer before mist coat.. about 2 hours
2. mist coat before main body coat about 1 hour
3. main coat before wet coat about 1 hour
4. Wet coat before lacquer gloss (48hours)
5. Lacquer gloss before wet sanding and polishing (48 hours)

But the above is my rough estimate.

what polishing wax u use,modelling or auto..?

Polishing compound - Tamiya polishing compound.

Polishing wax = Tamiya modeling wax

Hi,

I'm wondering if Tamiya Compounds are similar with Novus in final result?

Thx