TAMIYA Polishing Compound Fine and Finish SET

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Used as a system, it's a rather brilliant way to get a beautiful finish with less effort than usual. It may take four or five applications on a single area over the course of 15-30 minutes before you get the glossiness you desire.

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I was with my model club yesterday at my lhs and noticed that they now carry tamiya polishing compound, both the blue box and the red. Rubbing compounds will help you transform that fine orange peel to a glossy, smooth-as-glass result. They allow for clean, precise application of the compound, giving your model a gorgeous finish to its paint job. The added paint can be polished in with the existing paint during subsequent stages but be careful to avoid burning through the edge again!I also have the Mr Hobby liquid polishing compounds which I like too, they come in 3 grades and include polishing clothes in the pack. I have only been in the hobby for a year or so, and have spent more time working on techniques for building and have yet to work on a good paint job. Apply your choice of wax in a circular motion with a soft cloth, continuing to polish until it works into the surface and remaining surface wax becomes stiff. Even though you’ve sprayed your final clear coat, and it looked really good while it was wet, after it dried, you noticed a fine orange-peel texture developed.

Tamiya Polishing Compound (Finish)

It did, however, leave a smooth-enough finish that I can foil, put a finish coat on top and polish out. Just this AM I shot wet final Tamiya TS-13 clearcoat on a model, and I've been buffing it this afternoon (after 4 hours in the dehydrator; roughly equivalent to about 32 hours of drying at ambient temperature).

With using various methods of getting your color or clearcoats relatively smooth such as wetsanding kits from detail master, i've seldom had to use the red cap coarse one. And interestingly enough, the Testors paint reacts in such a way that there's a subtle but appreciable difference with the finish compound. The blue cap "fine" deepens the reflections, and the white cap "finish" is sort of a detailer; and it's the most expensive and not really necessary. I've also had very good luck using these with the Testors laquer factory finishes as well as the Tamiya.