Talking About Trains...

[JayCee]

This sounds curious, That would be a neat trick to make a universal coupler gor all model RR .s

 

[Captain Caveman]

This sounds curious, That would be a neat trick to make a universal coupler gor all model RR .s

I will experiment.

 

[JayCee]

Go.. Captain Caveman .....if anybody has the experience and skills for micro surgery on Model Rail Road ! You do !

 

[Captain Caveman]

I needed to find a way to rescue paint as it needed rescuing and it is only around 30 years old. I added a little thinners and stirred it with a small screwdriver for 20-30 minutes but it was still grainy.
I tried some new paint but the new paint was so thin and runny that it is not the quality of older paints, so I went back to the older tin from a different manufacturer that made quality paint which dissapeared when the postal service banned paints through the post, and I mounted a paperclip (Do you call them "Figure of 8 clips in the USA?), formed it into the shape I wanted and put it in my minidrill with the speed turned down. Ran it for a minute or two in the paint and it came out perfectly! Job done! So now I am almost ready to use the rescued paint...

 

[JayCee]

Brilliant .. you must be a Paint whisperer.. to bring old dead paint back yo life..
You look like you have a artists pallete there with your drill

 

[Captain Caveman]

I now have a first coat of paint on the bufferbeams.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Brilliant .. you must be a Paint whisperer.. to bring old dead paint back yo life..
You look like you have a artists pallete there with your drill

The tin lid I use (There are my paints inside the tin) when I open and sturdy the paints with a screwdriver or something, and I wipe the screwdriver on the lid and I then use that paint on the little paintbrushs first so as to not waste paint. That is why there is paint on the tin lid. It also helps so I don't overload the paint brush as if I pick up too much paint on the brush, I wipe it on the tin lid and then use the tin lid paint after if that makes sense?

 

[JayCee]

The tin lid I use (There are my paints inside the tin) when I open and sturdy the paints with a screwdriver or something, and I wipe the screwdriver on the lid and I then use that paint on the little paintbrushs first so as to not waste paint. That is why there is paint on the tin lid. It also helps so I don't overload the paint brush as if I pick up too much paint on the brush, I wipe it on the tin lid and then use the tin lid paint after if that makes sense?

Very efficient use of the paint ! can see where the smaller brushed might be handy for that

 

[Captain Caveman]

Very efficient use of the paint ! can see where the smaller brushed might be handy for that

Though much of my paint is old so some of it has been rescued, but brush painting models one uses larger brushes so one does not leave streeks, and then uses smaller brushes to highlite the smaller details. One of my brushes is less than half a 000 size though hand-to-eye co-ordination along with what one can see means that many can paint better than I can.... Having said that, the model above is not finished yet as I paint over each colour until I get it right the way I want it.