Painting on a budget?

[mobilman44]

OP,

Get the book!  Follow Tom's advice and you won't go wrong.  And if you don't want a new one, there are plenty of used ones on Ebay. 

Asking folks on the forum for advice - no matter what the topic - will give you much more information that you can use.  And, much of it will be conflicting and you are not well versed in the Hobby to determine which advice to follow.

I've used Kalmbach's books since the 1960s (and still have them) and they have never sent me down the wrong track..........

So get the book, study it well, and then move on to your next "gonna do" project.

[NWP SWP]

Where can I find an index of railroad paint colors?

[RR_Mel]

NWP SWP

Where can I find an index of railroad paint colors?

 

I think I used Floquil paints for over 40 years and when it went away I went to Tru-Color Paints.  It’s a solvent based paint and works better for me in my airbrush than Floquil did and I never had problems with Floquil paint.

 

Here is a link to their model railroad colors.

 

http://trucolorpaint.com/products/paint/

 

The same Bagger Floquil adapter fits the Tru-Color bottles and it’s thinned ready to use in your airbrush.

 

 

EDIT:

 

The cost of the paint isn’t much of an issue with me.  When painting with an airbrush the paint goes a long way.  I just finished painting 11 Athearn Heavy Weight passenger cars and it took less than a half ounce from a one ounce bottle.  I do a lot of airbrush work and I rarely have to buy paint.  I stock all of the SP colors and the only colors that go quickly are the Daylight colors mainly because I have a dozen locomotives and 30 streamlined cars.  I’m continually doing mods to my passenger fleet and when I finish a mod the car needs a new coat of paint because I most likely dropped it a dozen time during the mod.  Growing old is a bummer, I can't work on anything without dropping it several times.

 

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

 

 

[jdr3366]

I have heard that cheaper paints and those not designed for MRR have larger size pigments that will tend to cover the fine details on the car.