Some of the pictures make it look like you are wet-sanding? Like this one which I downloaded onto my hard drive and then uploaded into your gallery here,
uniquedetailing's gallery on AG Online
It's not hard to upload pictures to your gallery and then inserting them instead of just attaching them.
IT looks like the surface has been lightly sanded revealing the orange peel and flattening it a little in some places.
It's a lot easier to capture orange peel with a camera if you lightly sand it too...
As for before pictures, check out this thread,
The power in the after shots is created in the before shots
As for sanding this truck, how many coats of paint did you spray?
It's pretty easy to know down the orange peel with #1500 grit and then work up to #2000 or even #2500 before buffing. Finishing with a higher grit will make the buffing process faster and easier.
Be sure to use a clean water source when wet-sanding, put some water and a drop of soap into a clean spray bottle and spray the surface often as you sand to rinse off removed paint and any abrasive particles that come off your sanding paper.
Also, it's best to try to sand and buff sooner than later as the paint will continue to harden as time goes by. Sanding is always easy as this is putting scratches into the paint, (in a matter of speaking), it's removing them that can be difficult.
You want to remove them while the paint is still
wet.
In the context of how the word wet is being used here we don't mean, wet as in gooey, or sticky paint, we mean while the paint is still in a
window of time where it hasn't fully hardened.
Only sand where you can run your wool pad on a rotary buffer safely, sometimes it's easy to over-sand. You can remove sanding marks by hand but be careful about sanding any place that will be hard to reach safely with a wool cutting pad spinning at 1500 RPM or faster.
Nice work so far, looking forward to the completed project.
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