| Great job bro!! First thing that jumps out to me was the great deep and crisp refelction shots. Hard to do on a very flakey paint like that. Awesome work!
There's nothing wrong with applying Souveran over everything you done. Would only add to the gloss. After you buff off the Souveran, I wouldnt' apply any spray waxes until a few hours after curing. I know it's a carnuaba, but let it settle for a little bit.
I too have experience little to no dusting with XMT 1/2, but I do experience some with XMT 3.
I like to put the compound/polish around the edges of the pads. As far as pressure, (especially with yellow or green pads), I found it best to apply a decent amount (IDK, 7-10lbs or so?) when first starting to work in the polish. I generally do this for about 4 min per panel on speed 6. I then lower to speed 5 and apply very little to no pressure. Especially on the green and yellow pads, this really help minimize or completely get rid of any micromarring that the pad may leave when applying heavy pressure.
It takes practice, and once you get the hang of it, you can pretty much use any pad, any XMT polish combo, and make it LSP ready.
I like to use XMT 3 a lot and just very it according to pad (either yellow or green) depending on the situation. If the paint started bad, I then use orange with XMT #2 to finish it up. If it wasn't too bad, then I like to use green/#3 combo. If needed, I then would use Orange/#1 combo.
Hope this helps anyone who might need it. |