I've personally never had much luck brush painting trains. They always came out looking exactly like what I did. Brushed on on paint, Regardless of the paint used. Spray cans will work if you learn to control them or rather control how much paint actually hits the model. Your best bet of course is the airbrush.
Not much help, I know but still my 2¢
4-6-6-4 Challenger wrote:Thanks for the info so far. It sounds to me that I can to ether.
4-6-6-4 Challenger! Absolutely do not use ether. It is a solvent and extremely flammable. In additon, diethyl ether can form diethyl ether peroxide which is a contact explosive when dry.
This is just my opinion but I think that I would put up the cash for a airbrush. I mean if you are going to being detailing your locos and rolling stock it will pay for itself in no time.
Norman......
Ah ha!.. Been there, done that many many many years ago.
Put my painted model car in a shoe box to keep dust off and put a 50W bulb above it.. removed the box.. model car was no more, just this blob from StarTrek. I bet it was my best paint job ever.
Thin the paint and brush paint it if you can't afford an air brush. A can will cover/hide all detail in N-scale. It is just too corse.
davidmbedard wrote: dti406 wrote: One of my friends was a custom painter, he often painted brass models with Floquil spray paint and they came out beautifully.Rick Tis too bad your friend hasnt discovered the joy of Scalecoat II. You actually BAKE the stuff on (175 at 2 hours FYI). During the baking process, the pigment melts leaving you a perfect gloss durable surface. The difference between using Floquil and Scalecoat is night and day.....but this is only my experience....David B
dti406 wrote: One of my friends was a custom painter, he often painted brass models with Floquil spray paint and they came out beautifully.Rick
One of my friends was a custom painter, he often painted brass models with Floquil spray paint and they came out beautifully.
Rick
Tis too bad your friend hasnt discovered the joy of Scalecoat II. You actually BAKE the stuff on (175 at 2 hours FYI). During the baking process, the pigment melts leaving you a perfect gloss durable surface. The difference between using Floquil and Scalecoat is night and day.
....but this is only my experience....
David B
On plastic?
I'm leary of heat on plastic models, ever since I melted a nice model car on a lamp when I was a kid.
Rotor
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If you're on a tight budget, this is a great airbrush.http://walthers.com/exec/productinfo/704-2203
I've had mine for a few years now, and it does a fantastic job. It's easy to clean too. So far, I've painted three steam engines, three diesels, and a few plastic car models, and all have gotten nice, smooth coats.
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Alex
You'll be way better off painting with a spray can, or an airbrush. It will do a much nicer job than brush painting.
I usually use a $25 Badger Model 250 Mini Spray Gun for most model painting. It's almost as easy as a spray can to use, almost as easy as a brush to clean up.
This was brushpainted with acrylics, n-scale.
I will second the recommendation from Guildford Guy on brushpainting with Modelflex. Worked fine for me. I could not find a spray can of the correct PRR Tuscan Red so I tried the brush and it worked.
George V.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
We are talking N scale loco.
My plan is to buy a undecorated loco and paint it to my satisfaction. I want to make up a railroad and call it the "Black Goose" What I want to do is buy some Alco RS-2's paint them all black and make a logo for them and then re-number them and have "Black Goose" on the side.
So my question is if I dont have an airbrush what will it look like if I use spray paint. Also what will it look like if I brush it on? Should I just go out and buy a airbrush? dont really have the money right now trying to get my layout started up.