It seems you just can't do enough sanding and polishing on the clear coat. Well, I guess you can if you get down to the decals and ruin them. But fortunately, I did not.
Sanded down to 3000 grit... I followed up after this photo with a polish. I'll save that for later photos.
On to the side windows, which I had been putting of. I couldn't decide if I should go to the trouble of detailing the hinges and latches for the inner window, which opens on the real car. I have PE for these parts, but it gets close to overkill. In addition, you have to start by grinding off the molded in details in the clear plastic, which is very risky. One slip and it's ruined.
Went for it anyway...
First I masked off the part to protect it. This proved to be a really good idea as I still ended up with a few small scratches. It could have been worse.
I used a grinding rotary tool to slowly take down the plastic, under magnification. This went pretty well all things concidered.
The PE for these details is some of the smallest I've seen.
Here are the latches assembled and installed.
In all there's a fairly crazy 15 PE parts on each window.
Turned out well in the end. It was a lot of work
though.
I used a grinding rotary tool to slowly take down the plastic, under magnification. This went pretty well all things concidered.
The PE for these details is some of the smallest I've seen.
Here are the latches assembled and installed.
In all there's a fairly crazy 15 PE parts on each window.
Turned out well in the end. It was a lot of work though.
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