Model Wax?

Chris,

I will let Swanny answer that one for you but if "model wax" does indeed have carnuba wax in it then I wouldn't think the paint would adhere good to it.
I think Swanny just decants the gloss black into a jar and sprays it onto the model with his airbrush. I don't remember him saying anything about wax, but I could be wrong as I am just going by memory.

Mike

mike, i didnt read it on this forum on dont think. see, thats whats confusing me, how in the heck is paint supposed to adhere to WAX!! if i could get my brain in gear, ill try to find that article. later.

Chris,

I wouldn't worry about it because if you are spraying on gloss black then whatever minor scratches there are will be covered by the paint.
I would just polish the surface the best you can to be assured it is as smooth as possible and then spray your gloss black.
Have you ever tried rubbing the bare plastic with a coffee filter?
Try it, it works great for shining up any light sanding marks that you may have left.

Mike

im gonna try that mike, i read your post over in the airbrushing thread. thats very interesting. off to work, later.

salty,

You do not want to put wax on a model you are going to paint. If you want to polish out scratches use Novus plastic polish. There are 3 grades of polish, Novus #1, #2, and # 3. Each is a little finer, or coarser, depending on how you look at it. I find that Novus #2, the middle grade, works fine for preparing aircraft surfaces for a natural metal finish.

I prepare the surface by sanding the entire surface with either 600 or 800 grit wet/dry sandpaper. I wet sand. If I start with 600 grit, I go over that with 800 grit to make it easier to polish the surface.

On a kit with raised panel lines this is not very practical unless you sand off the lines and scribe them. If I do not want to do that I just polish the kit with a heavier grit Novus, and then do the finish polishing with #2. Hope this helps.