Onewolfdoes anyone have concerns/suggestions?
Yes! Keep quiet and bring this to market.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Since you have a printer, it looks pretty ingenious to me ! They can be used over and over again. No worry about tape residue, hours of putsy taping, and removal and clean up.
Mike.
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It's getting very close to the time for me to start weathering my track. I have about 1200 ft of visible flex track and 86 visible turnouts. 84 of those are Peco insulfrog #6 or #8 turnouts. I am starting to theorize the most efficient method for weathering all these turnouts so I watched some videos, read some "how to tutorials". It looks like most people use strips of tape to cover the points and pivots and then after the spray paint (or airbrush paint) dries they come back and touch up the taped areas with a brush.
I was thinking that with very precise 'masks' instead of masking/painters tape it might be possible to minimize the touch up brushing required. So I made some masks using my 3D printer.
I tested the masks on a turnout on the layout with some primer spray paint and there was zero overspray in the areas that need to be masked. The 'points' mask works for both #6 and #8 turnouts, but the pivot point mask needs to have slightly different geometry between the #6 and #8 turnouts.
So, before I asphixiate myself painting all those visible turnouts using these masks, does anyone have concerns/suggestions?
Thanks.
Doug
Modeling an HO gauge freelance version of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Utah Railway around 1957 in a world where Pirates from the Great Salt Lake founded Ogden, UT.
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