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Talking About Trains...

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...

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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👍
 
JayCee said:
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👍
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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?
 
Captain Caveman said:
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?
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Very efficient use of the paint ! can see where the smaller brushed might be handy for that
 
JayCee said:
Very efficient use of the paint ! can see where the smaller brushed might be handy for that
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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.
 
One of the things , I miss most about losing the function in my steadyness is doing the fine detail as time has passed. Sometimes I can stabilize the hand by resting my wrist on something while I work . Of the working hand . But I have seen the results of your work .
And it is great ! Glad the Loco is coming along. Think that other site is having issues again .
 
Oh my Capt Caveman , have seen the things you turn into loco/RR parts . Think you could turn toothpiks into buffer beams .
 
Good on the creativity. saw a utube on mixing some Schellac into a mix . think it is ground and liquified cockroach shell .. With something that drys to a slight brownish clear colour . over what ever you coat. And it gets hard and drys it give a pretty waterproof coating. .
Looks like a gnomie Waggon.😁😁😎
 
Very Nice ...Good thinking ... Although did like the utube ,I saw about using Shellac..
Had read some people models entire small parts out of a mix of baking soda and alittle superglue mix into a mold .
 
Progress on the build.

Making underframe axlebox sides.

(These may look a little crude, but they have come out nice and solid which is what I want.)
 

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I like the efgorts on the acles alot , pretty creative but do you have to mold those
housing around the actual axle shafts .
 
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