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How do I Keep taped lines while wet sanding?

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How do I Keep taped lines while wet sanding?
Posted by Popcop45 on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 5:47 PM

I have never wet sanded a model before, but after seeing some amazing paint jobs I have decided to give it a try. I started experimenting with an old junker '59 Caddy 1/18 die cast. I notice as you wet sand the coats, the tape also gets wet losing it's original position on the model. How can I defeat that so that the integrity of my tape work stays?

Thanks in advance for the help.

  • Member since
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  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 6:21 PM

You don't wet sand with the tape applied. At least I never have. Let the paint dry completely. I use a polishing stick with water and a drop of dish soap to suspend the paint particles.

 

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Posted by Popcop45 on Thursday, September 3, 2009 2:47 PM
If you're wet sanding between coats like many top painters do, you have to sand with the masking tape on unless you're going to re-mask after every coat; which would be a pain.
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  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:35 PM

 Popcop45 wrote:
If you're wet sanding between coats like many top painters do, you have to sand with the masking tape on unless you're going to re-mask after every coat; which would be a pain.

I don't see any other alternative as the sand paper is going to remove the tape regardless of what precautions you use. I would just give it several coats then use a product like the Micro Mesh polishing set that has sandpaper up to 12,000 grit and dry sand it. 

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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  • From: Cleveland, OH
Posted by RadMax8 on Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:00 PM
Yeah I agree with Mike, put your color coats down then remove the tape and polish.
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  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Friday, September 4, 2009 7:39 AM
 MikeV wrote:

 Popcop45 wrote:
If you're wet sanding between coats like many top painters do, you have to sand with the masking tape on unless you're going to re-mask after every coat; which would be a pain.

I don't see any other alternative as the sand paper is going to remove the tape regardless of what precautions you use. I would just give it several coats then use a product like the Micro Mesh polishing set that has sandpaper up to 12,000 grit and dry sand it. 

Fingernail polishing sticks offer similar grits for far less money...modelers are a frugal bunch. Wink [;)] In fact the polishing sticks that I use and at one time sold, were from Micro Mesh. 

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Friday, September 4, 2009 10:21 AM
Another alternative, and I am assuming this person wants glossy automotive paint jobs, is to use urethanes like some modelers do. These are the paints you see used on custom cars and choppers and they are gorgeous once clear coated. The problem is that the paints are expensive although Coast Airbrush sells them in small quantities. You need very good ventilation for the clears though as they are isocyanates and you do not want them entering your eyes, nose, ears or any other opening.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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