Removal of spray-dust.. how?

[robse]

Hey, all.
As painting my scratch build Ohio (SSBN) has proven to be quite a job, I could use a bit of good advice. The length of the sub is 82,9" ( 210,7 cm.) so I could not paint it in one stretch, but had to overlap a bit.
All's fine, except there's a bit of optical disturbs where to two layers cross. It's spray dust, but it's not possible to simply blow it away.
How do you guys polich such thing? Do you use a piece of plain paper as "high-grade" sanding paper, or poliching stuff normally used for cars?Something else?
Thanks in advance, guys.

[aeroengineer1]

depending on how thick the

depending on how thick the paint is, you could color sand it with some sandpaper with a grit between 1000-1500. If you are looking for it to shin, then you would need to get some rubbing compound and buff it out. Or you could do a clear coat on top of it. But if you are planning to weather it you can place your details over that then clear it with a low gloss. This is coming from an aircraft painting background, and may not be totally compatible with models.

Adam

[robse]

Adam: Thanks http://www.subcommittee.com/forum/icon_smile.gif Reading your

Adam: Thanks Reading your answer, triggered an idea. I suddently remebered an ancient friend had polished his canopy on his glider (real one) using ... toothpaste. It had removed the tiny tiny scratches in the canopy, that was irritating when flying, and left a completely transparent scratch-free canopy.
Through this, I got to think that if that worked, then the household silver polich might as well (=liquid high grade ), and guess what: It did! The overlapping between the two coats is now invisable, so I thought that I wanted to share my findings. Thanks for inspireing me, and waking up those gray cells of mine.

[tmsmalley]

A great tip!

A great tip!