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Why do manufacturers paint kits?
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My question for Chip and others is : How many of you have painted AND decaled a boxcar??? It takes time and patience to do it right. Most modelers don't want to spend their time doing this. You can take a high quality factory painted and decaled car and knock the finish down with dullcoat (or your pereferred matting agent), weather it and have a good looking car. <br /> <br />Or on the undecorated route you can wa***he car, get out the air brush, maybe prime the car, clean the air brush, strain and mix paint, spray the car, (maybe twice). Clean the airbrush. Gloss coat for decals. Clean the airbrush. Cut out the decals very close to the lettering, soak em' apply em. re-apply after noticing they are crooked, mess with em' to get them to snug up over rivets etc., respray the car with dullcoat, clean the airbrush and then finally weather it. I'm not knocking this method as I have done it myself. There is a lot of satisfaction from a job well done and you can make stuff that is unique and accurate. However, if you have even a medium sized layout, the job of making enough cars to run could take years just by itself without doing anything else on the layout. <br /> <br />Another way to look at it is that most guys will not do anything to a car. Would it look better for them to have undecorated cars running around or factory painted cars where the color is a bit plastic looking??? <br /> <br />On the other side of things: I agree with Orson an others. If you are going to repaint and detail anyway, it is just one more step to remove (or simple paint over factory paint). <br /> <br />My 2 cents,
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