Clarification on sanding?

I know I have said both but speaking to my b/f he said circular sanding is what you do on wood (which is relatively soft) - he often does sanding on car bodies during the painting process, and when doing this he sands back and forth.... sanding in circles will give a matte area, but for seams it might be better to sand back and forth. On my Lishe body I used the back and forth method which turned out to be faster as well. The finest paper I used was 1500 grit, which actually made her a bit shiny, especially when you look down along the seam and can almost see a reflection, but this can be fixed by spraying with MSC, I guess. It doesn't bother me. Once the b/f has his sandblaster set up, I might take the body apart and test to see if I can matte it down a bit using that.

Edit: For modifications, I use a combination of both, but finish off with back-forth as I get to the finer grit. Especially on the face, as it becomes smoother, and further matting can be done with MSC (and the likes).

- Therese

 

my friend recently sanded my body in circular motions and it wored really nice... shes all smooth now @_@. so i guess thats how you do it XD