Help about the cars body

[Adidas150]

Hello all it has been a long weekend again and I had the cars body prepared to paint so I did it this weekend and I must say that it worked out quite well. No orange peel allmost perfect after having read all the threads about painting. But now I am a little confused about decals, laquer, compound and wax.
I do not know what to use when? Do I apply my decals right now or first a coat of laquer and then the decals, then compound and wax or ???????
Please advice, i would like to do it right now and don't mess it up like the first model.
HELP...

[ales]

What paint did you use? (meaning metallic or not)

Basically, here's a concise rundown of the procedure (and it SHOULD BE PUT IN THE FAQ!!!)

Order:

1. Solid colour (non-metallic):
a) primer
b) sanding the primer if necessary
c) paint (several coats)
d) sanding (if rough orange peel)
e) cutting/rubbing/polishing - whatever you call it - compound. By the end of this step the paint should be smooth as a baby's butt!)
f) decals
g) wax

2. Metallic paint:
a) primer
b) sanding the primer if necessary
c) paint (several coats)
d) leave the paint alone!!!
e) clear coat (several layers)
f) sanding (if necessary)
g) cutting/rubbing/polishing compound
h) decals (as personaly preference, you might want to put the decals before clearcoating, I prefer not to clearcoat decals on race cars)
i) wax


HTH

[Adidas150]

I used tamyia ts38 gun metal as paint, but I do not know if it is metallic or not. What's the difference?

[freakray]

TS-38 Gun metal is metallic.
Other than that, Alex has you completely covered....

Ray

[Adidas150]

Ok thx guys I will try to make this work out as well as possible.
if you have other little tips pls shoot them off.