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Can Built-ups Be Saved by painting?

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Can Built-ups Be Saved by painting?
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 23, 2002 12:23 PM
There are more than one Model Power or Bachmann models that are already assembled, but the plastic shines, colors are not real, suitable only for a plastic backlite sign. N scale, modern contempory house in Yellow/white. Looks like painting it is going to be very hard, except the roof. Need paint on a stick or something like a felt tip marker. Any colors like that that could be used on these built-ups? Ideas?
I want some houses of the style of the Bachmann, but wonder what to use to make the Tract houses of Southern California with for stucco, stuff that was built all over LA county, Orange Co. I thought the house was too small, but guess a lot of the lots were about 60 ft wide by 120 ft. deep, had to size one out with a boxcar imagined in my front yard, alongside the house. - Tom
Looking for ideas, the current kits don't match anything built in the 50s.
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Posted by BNSFNUT on Monday, December 23, 2002 8:56 PM
I have improved some very plastic looking buildings and rolling stock with a simple coat or two of Dullcoat
Jerry

There is no such thing as a bad day of railfanning. So many trains, so little time.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 24, 2002 7:39 AM
Tom; I would paint the buildings with a small brush and flat Floquil or Polly S paints.The Floquil is solvent based, but will not etch the plastic noticeably unless you put it on too thick. The task is a bit fussy, but no worse than painting small detail , like human figures, etc.
I've done quite a few assembled buildings [from train show tables] this way.
Merry Christmas / good luck / Mike

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