Buffing?
After you have done the majority of sanding and buffing, you can just take the tape off and use some light compound by hand to flow the edges together. The part's with tape might not need anything, you will be able to tell when you start using the compound. If it is noticable just hit it buy hand lightly with some finer compound.
I did notice some slight orange peel in one of you pics. Dont get me wrong. It looks great, you have spent alot of time to this point. I would spend just a little more and get it to really pop. Also if you are going to put stripes down the side it will look alot better the smoother it is.
I know it seem's like a shame to cut nice shiny paint but when you are finished you will deffinitally notice a differance. Doing small areas might be more noticable(and not in a good way) when finished on a new paint job.
When my paint buddy does small repair work he paints an area 12-24" and wet sand's and buffs to flow everything together.
Again I am not being critical at all, you have done an outstanding job so far. I just know how much better it look's and feel's when complete.
Keep up the great work.
Here is one of my scoops wet sanded with 1500 and hand compounded. No wax yet. I thought it looked great but had some small dirt specs and very minor orange peel. I couldn't really see it by eye. Well I tried to just do the small dirt spec and it was noticable, so I did the whole thing. WOW
Painted the scoops on the Swinger Rustoleum satin black
After you have done the majority of sanding and buffing, you can just take the tape off and use some light compound by hand to flow the edges together. The part's with tape might not need anything, you will be able to tell when you start using the compound. If it is noticable just hit it buy hand lightly with some finer compound.
I did notice some slight orange peel in one of you pics. Dont get me wrong. It looks great, you have spent alot of time to this point. I would spend just a little more and get it to really pop. Also if you are going to put stripes down the side it will look alot better the smoother it is.
I know it seem's like a shame to cut nice shiny paint but when you are finished you will deffinitally notice a differance. Doing small areas might be more noticable(and not in a good way) when finished on a new paint job.
When my paint buddy does small repair work he paints an area 12-24" and wet sand's and buffs to flow everything together.
Again I am not being critical at all, you have done an outstanding job so far. I just know how much better it look's and feel's when complete.
Keep up the great work.
Here is one of my scoops wet sanded with 1500 and hand compounded. No wax yet. I thought it looked great but had some small dirt specs and very minor orange peel. I couldn't really see it by eye. Well I tried to just do the small dirt spec and it was noticable, so I did the whole thing. WOW
Painted the scoops on the Swinger Rustoleum satin black