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Ever painted yourself into a corner?

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Ever painted yourself into a corner?
Posted by RR_Mel on Saturday, October 7, 2017 10:49 AM

Ever painted yourself into a corner?  I needed to make a couple of modifications to a scratch built house and afterwards I had light leaks in very hard to get to areas.  After a bit of thought I came up with an answer, I needed an angle brush.  I had a cheapo plastic rarely used brush so with Ye Old Soldering Iron I heated the plastic and bent the brush into a 90° angle.
 
 
No more light leaks.
 
 
Mel
 
Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951
 
My Model Railroad   
 
Bakersfield, California
 
I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
 
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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:16 AM

I love it... a painter's version of a right angle access wrench.

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-Kevin

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Living the dream.

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Posted by Uncle_Bob on Sunday, October 8, 2017 11:59 PM

Nice idea!

From your title, I thought you might've gotten in trouble with your wife!  (Not that that has EVER happened to me, of course!  Cool Black Eye

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Posted by hon30critter on Monday, October 9, 2017 12:12 AM

Mel:

That looks like a good old fashioned Testors brush. I actually like using them because their bristles are rather stiff. They seem to make it easier for me to paint 'relatively' straight lines. Note the emphasis on 'relatively'.LaughLaugh

Good suggestion!

Dave

I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!

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