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STRATTON AND GILLETTE Project 3: My Ultimate Paint Booth

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Posted by York1 on Saturday, December 21, 2019 9:19 AM

Great looking project.  My work looks amateurish compared to your pictures.

I like the paint, also.  I didn't know there was a spray paint that gave that effect.  I just looked it up, and found the nearest place for me to get it is Menards, about 50 miles away.  Since I get there every so often, I'm going to pick up a can of that.  I can think of a project I can use that on.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, December 28, 2019 1:56 PM

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Posted by hon30critter on Sunday, December 29, 2019 1:03 AM

Hi Kevin,

I never had any doubt that your booth would work like a dream! Well done!

Dave

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, January 11, 2020 9:04 PM

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Posted by hon30critter on Saturday, January 11, 2020 9:17 PM

Hi Kevin,

If you had purchased a commercial paint booth of the same quality you would probably have spent thousands of dollars! What you have is a bargain!

Dave

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Posted by SPSOT fan on Sunday, January 12, 2020 12:34 AM

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Total Cost: $796.00, WOW!

Yeah, but considering how much painting you do, probably a worthwhile investment! You could probably buy a cheaper commercial paint booth for less, but not with all the features you’ve put into yours.

Also it is definitely not a good idea to keep track of those things! This is a hobby!

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, January 12, 2020 4:40 AM

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That is one heck of a parts list.

And this is minus compressor and airbrush Tongue Tied

Still, you have a custom paint booth to be proud of YesYesYes

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 6:26 AM

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, June 12, 2020 9:53 PM

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, June 12, 2020 10:15 PM

Yes it is

Some nice-looking Plumbing Kevin!

And I know you are going to continue the run along the wall in the garage through the outside exterior wall aimed at the neighbors house next door you don't like so much.

Just kiddingLaugh  Looking good so far Kevin.  I can gather what you're doingYes

 

P.S.  You have some foreign looking ABS pipes down there in Florida.  Or probably they are not.  (unfamiliar)  They look more like muffler exhaust pipes?  Please correct meSmile

 

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, June 12, 2020 11:10 PM

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Posted by tankertoad135 on Sunday, June 14, 2020 10:51 AM

That is a truly amazing and beautifully accomplished project Kevin; totally first class all the way.Cowboy

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Posted by FlattenedQuarter on Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:09 AM

Nice work Kevin! I say put some wheels on it and see what it'll do in the 1/4 mile

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:19 AM

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Posted by FlyingScotaman on Sunday, June 14, 2020 1:12 PM

WOW! You put more effort into that than some folk do for a whole layout.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, June 15, 2020 9:25 AM

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, July 27, 2020 3:16 PM

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Posted by hon30critter on Monday, July 27, 2020 9:54 PM

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Now at the end of a painting session I simply reach up to that 1/4 turn air valve and pop it open. This blows down the compressed air system and purges all of the collected moisture from the compressed air tank.

That's neat Kevin!

I don't mind blowing the condensate onto my garage floor. It improves the appearance!Smile, Wink & GrinLaughLaugh

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 10:39 AM

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 3:11 PM

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Posted by Southgate 2 on Thursday, December 10, 2020 1:26 AM

Ya know, any shop or garage with an air compressor ought to have one of those. Great idea!  And the booth looks like it's proving it's worth too. Dan

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Posted by ekervina on Thursday, December 10, 2020 5:46 AM

There is a LOT of information in this thread, and I am very aware that I should be getting ready for work instead of reading forums, so I am kind of speeding through things. So if I missed it, it is completely my fault, but I didn't see any comment on how much noise the blower puts out. I took a quick look at the Daytona data sheet and didn't spot anything either, but again, I might have just overlooked it.

So... How loud is that blower? My build room is inside the house, and I have a very understanding and supportive wife, but I still try to keep things somewhat quiet. And it is definately approaching time to replace my diy bathroom exhaust fan booth.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:09 AM

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, December 10, 2020 9:10 AM

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Posted by richhotrain on Sunday, December 13, 2020 5:52 AM

Kevin, this thread is over one year old and, for no good reason, I have never clicked on it until now. I wound up reading each and every post.

Fantastic!

What a work of art! Or, maybe I should say, what a work of engineering.

I have never even tried airbrushing once. I do all my painting with brushes and rattle cans. I do have one question for you. What sort of protection do you wear when airbrushing to avoid inhaling the fumes?

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Sunday, December 13, 2020 7:22 AM

richhotrain

Kevin, this thread is over one year old and, for no good reason, I have never clicked on it until now. I wound up reading each and every post.

Fantastic!

What a work of art! Or, maybe I should say, what a work of engineering.

I have never even tried airbrushing once. I do all my painting with brushes and rattle cans. I do have one question for you. What sort of protection do you wear when airbrushing to avoid inhaling the fumes?

Rich

 

I clearly can't speak for Kevin, but I have been using an air brush since age 14 (1971), and have used a home made spray booth vented to the outdoors (not as nice as Kevin's) for the last 30 years.

I only use solvent based paints (Floquil back in the day, Scalecoat for the last 25-30 years), and the most I have ever done is wore a simple N95 dust mask.

The whole point of the booth is to draw the fumes away and provide a good well lit dust controlled area to work in.

Air brushing is no more dangerous than a rattle can, probably much safer.

I can't imagine building models without an airbrush, or three......

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Posted by richhotrain on Sunday, December 13, 2020 8:22 AM

Thanks for that info, Sheldon.

When I started out in January, 2004, I knew a little about airbrushes but had never used one. My LHS guys told me that starting out, just you bottled paint and hand brushes. So, I started out that way and never looked back. I only paint structures, not locos or rolling stock. Yeah, I know, I am a Neantherthal.

Somewhere along the way, I wound up with can of Badger Propel Compressed Air. I have never used it. Is it simply a "portable" compressor? At one time, I recall that I had an airbrush, but if I did, I can no longer find it.

So, a good quality face mask is sufficient to avoid inhaling fumes?

Rich

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Sunday, December 13, 2020 8:34 AM

richhotrain

Thanks for that info, Sheldon.

When I started out in January, 2004, I knew a little about airbrushes but had never used one. My LHS guys told me that starting out, just you bottled paint and hand brushes. So, I started out that way and never looked back. I only paint structures, not locos or rolling stock. Yeah, I know, I am a Neantherthal.

Somewhere along the way, I wound up with can of Badger Propel Compressed Air. I have never used it. Is it simply a "portable" compressor? At one time, I recall that I had an airbrush, but if I did, I can no longer find it.

So, a good quality face mask is sufficient to avoid inhaling fumes?

Rich

 

With good spray booth, I would say yes, others may disagree.

As you know, I do paint lots of rolling stock, so does Kevin. 

But airbrushing is much more than that. It is weathering, even if it is only very light, very subtle weathering. In fact that is one of the great uses for an airbrush, weathering so subtle it makes the models look better without the weathering really being noticable.

Even on structures it hides less detail than rattle cans. Model paints have finer pigments, because you are painting a model....

I cringe every time I hear someone talk about painting rolling stock with rattle cans from the hardware store..... Structures, ok.

It opens up a whole new aspect of model building, even if you are not painting and decaling a whole fleet like Kevin and I.

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Posted by richhotrain on Sunday, December 13, 2020 8:41 AM

Weathering!

That brings up another topic that makes me cringe. 

Sad to say, I have never even experimented with weathering. Truth be told, I didn't even paint structures when I started out. Nothing like styrene plastic colored white, orange, and green right out of the box. Dead  Later on, I either painted those assembled structures or, in a few cases, simply tossed them in the garbage.

So, now, all of my structures are painted, but none are weathered. They just look NEW, which was never my objective.

For that reason, I often think about airbrushing these structures to weather them. Is it too late once the windows are in place?

Rich

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, December 13, 2020 9:32 AM

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