This paste polishing compound uses extremely fine particles, and accordingly gives a superior level of smooth finish, Pair text with an image to focus on your chosen product, collection, or blog post. Add details on availability, style, or even provide a review.

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That's the way I do it. The wax I use is an automotive product designed for polishing acrylic headlight covers and I use that instead of dipping my canopies for the final finish too. One bottle will last a lifetime. Relatively large particles - in combination with the paste - are highly effective when smoothing out any rough finishes on your model's surface, and it can be washed away using water when the job is finished.SKU: 87192 Categories: Home Products, Sponges and Cloths, Tamiya, Tools/Glues/Paint Tags: Mini Sponges, Polishing, Sanding, Tamiya, Tools Related products If you are polishing Tamiya sprays, it's absolutely the best polish you can use. You do 95%+ of the work w/the red cap/coarse, that's what buffs out the paint. If you pay attention to perfecting the basics of your paint jobs, so that your final coats of color and/or clear are smooth, you can often skip the wetsanding stage, or perhaps just use 3200/4000 grit Micromesh. 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. Darker colors need the most attention. I've recently been doing up some of my early builds with a view to selling them on Facetube. As some of them had issues with the canopies I needed to polish them so, as I'm a lazy sod at heart I've converted an old lekkie toothbrush (which doesn't hold a charge for very long) to help. As I haven't got any polishing compound I remembered that someone mentioned that white toothpaste can be used.

Tamiya polishing compound - Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials Tamiya polishing compound - Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials

Not having any tamiya polishing compound I thought I'd try something else when removing a canopy seam and the magic ingredient t-cut Remember you are posting for all to read including those that will never have used either compound.Although the canopies are now much better than they were, I wasn't particularly impressed with the result and I'm wondering if it might be more to do with the felt pad I used on the toothbrush rather than the toothpaste.

Tamiya Mini Polishing Sponge Set - For Polishing Your Model Tamiya Mini Polishing Sponge Set - For Polishing Your Model

Concur, I tried it many moons ago and it caused crazing in the transparency. I haven't tried the Meng/DSPIAE glass files on a transparency, but using them on opaque plastic makes it go very shiny. @Gorby the Tamiya polishing compounds are the way to go -if you can find them.This paste polishing compound uses small particles for the kind of finely-polished, smooth surface that is required before applying your model's topcoat. They allow for clean, precise application of the compound, giving your model a gorgeous finish to its paint job.• Small, Medium & Large Sponges x1 each You would be better served giving the reasons you don't like using Tamiya polishing compound and what makes Novus better than making a meaningless statement?

Tamiya Polishing Compound (finish) Tamiya 87070 - Super-Hobby Tamiya Polishing Compound (finish) Tamiya 87070 - Super-Hobby

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. Don’t panic and don’t beat yourself up: It’s a natural part of the paint process. It’s possible that you’re happy with the clear finish as is. But you could take your finish to the next level. How?