Polishable metal paints work in two stages, unlike any ordinary metallic coat. They dry to a matt surface, and only mechanical rubbing with a cloth or a cotton bud reorients the metal particles so that the shine appears. The result is an uneven, hand-worked metal that suits engines, weapons, gun stocks and small fittings far better than a uniform sprayed film would.
The hand work is both the appeal and the risk. You decide where the lustre sits, but on an edge the paint rubs through to the ground very easily, so buff with light pressure and work from the middle of a panel outwards, never from the edge inwards. If you need an even metal surface with no buffing at all, take a sprayed range such as SM special metals. The shared rules for this whole metal line are with the parent category Gunze metallics, and suitable fine points are in model paint brushes.
