Owner and superintendant of the N scale Texas Colorado & Western Railway, a protolanced representaion of the BNSF from Fort Worth, TX through Wichita Falls TX and into Colorado.
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NP2626 Scalecoat by Weaver Models has a line of railroad specific Acrylic paints called Scalecoat II. Google Scalecoat and you'll get there.
Scalecoat by Weaver Models has a line of railroad specific Acrylic paints called Scalecoat II. Google Scalecoat and you'll get there.
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jrbernier Ron, Badger Modelflex is also an acrylic paint with lots of model railroad specific colors. It is 'air brush' ready - All of the colors are thinned for air brushing. Polly Scale needs to be thinned depending on the pigment. One of the issues with the Badger paint is that it does not 'brush' on very good, and I have tended to use Polly Scale for the most part. Jim
Ron,
Badger Modelflex is also an acrylic paint with lots of model railroad specific colors. It is 'air brush' ready - All of the colors are thinned for air brushing. Polly Scale needs to be thinned depending on the pigment. One of the issues with the Badger paint is that it does not 'brush' on very good, and I have tended to use Polly Scale for the most part.
Jim
Jim,
I've had a different, more positive experience with Modelflex, which I like and find brushes well. I'm painting my track with it as we speak. I do start with Pollyscale SP Lettering Gray as a primer coat, and that might be the difference. I also use artists' brushes, as i enjoy using acrylics, both craft and artists', but I don't know if that affects Modelflex brushability or not.
As to colors, Golden makes a quality line of artists' acrylics, and they have an online color mixer that I use frequently. Google "golden online color mixer" to bring it and related articles up. It can take some time, but I've used it to match railroad-specific colors by comparing swatches on a white index card.
Rick Krall
I use Vallejo's Model Colour and Game Colour ranges along with Games workshops Citadel paint range all three ranges are acrylics and very good i have been using the Games workshop range for the past ten years on my war gaming Models the only problems i can i think of is the Games workshop have changed the way there range works and how it's labeled. and both the Vallejo Game Colour range and Games workshops Citadel paint range have bizarre names
Apologies in advance for any use of UK RailRoad Terms
"there is the wrong way the Right way and then there is Great western railway Way"
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
Humbrol also has a fair size line of Acrylic model paints. They have about 25 railroad colors included in the line, which has over 100 colors total. They are available from Hornby America website & most cost around $2.05 per can.
Carl
"I could never belong to any club that would have me as a member."
Tru Line train paints are also acrylic, but mainly Canadian specific colors. Tru Line paints are made by RPM(owner of Polly Scale) for True Line Trains - I suspect they may be gone as well in a few years.
Tamiya has acrylic paints, but nothing with model railroad specific colors.
Craft stores have several brands of acrylics(Apple Barrel/Creamcoat/FolkArt/etc, but nothing really railroad specific.
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
I have been doing some research since Testors announced the discontinuance of the Polly Scale paint line. I have used Polly Scale paint exclusively for over 20 years. I have read a lot on here about other lines of solvent-based paint to replace the Floquil line, but what is available in acrylics to replace Polly Scale? Someone give me some leads please.
Ron