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I am in Rail Painting Heaven!!!!!!!

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I am in Rail Painting Heaven!!!!!!!
Posted by BATMAN on Friday, March 11, 2011 8:34 PM

After a great deal of frustration and agony that came with painting the rails of my 300' of track. I was making slow progress at best. The thought of ever finishing did not seem achievable. HOWEVER! someone pointed me in the direction of the "Rusty Rails Painter" from Joe's Model Trains. I ordered one and received it a few months ago. Today I broke it out and after a little practice proceeded to paint my rails at warp speed. They look great to boot. Thanks Joe.Thumbs UpBow


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEJUDo7Uw94

 

                                                                               Brent

Brent

"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Friday, March 11, 2011 9:00 PM

Thanks for reminding me.

I bought one over a year ago and just finished laying the mainline track on my new layout.  I'll have to give it a try.

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Posted by rclanger on Friday, March 11, 2011 9:43 PM

I have had mine for a couple of months. Now is the time to try it.

Cat
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Posted by Cat on Friday, March 11, 2011 11:33 PM

Oooh, I think I'll have to get one of those, thanks!

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Posted by tattooguy67 on Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:21 AM

Those little dohikey's are sweet! got one to do the rails on my N-Scale layout and it worked really nice! I also tried to use mine to do the white lines along the edge of the road, not so good really, although most of it was my shakey hands, also i wonder if you know if there is a thinner stiffer rollor for the RR painter? Wonder if you could cut one from felt, and yes they really do work good on rails and it goes fast!

Thank's for reading

Chuck & Heather.

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Posted by bogp40 on Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:00 AM

Quite an impressive tool, who would think something so simple could prove so useful.  Kind of reminds me of my old auto/truck pinstriping paint tool. Maybe I'll see it that would work the same, has numerous size wheels, haven't used it in 20 years,

Thanks for the video link, love the diesels in the background.

Modeling B&O- Chessie  Bob K.  www.ssmrc.org

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Posted by fondo on Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:13 AM

I saw it time ago, and now I wanted! Wink

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:53 PM

Nifty little gadget, but other than not having to reload it as often, not any faster than a decent brush.  I wonder how well it works on turnouts.

As for the striping tool, mine has a metal roller, so you'd need a fairly generous setting on the paint flow in order to get sufficient paint coverage around the spike heads, etc.

 

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:59 PM

for road striping I'd use blue painters tape to form the line and spray it.

Springfield PA

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