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| Subject: | Re: Fruilmodel tracks, how do you paint ??? |  |
| Date: | Sep 1, 2006 |
| From: | Al Crawford | |
I tried that once - while I liked the results, looking over the ingredients the stuff was so damn toxic I decided never again.
Nowadays I don't paint, I dip. I use a mix of three Floquil enamel railway colors - rust, grimy black and mud. I mix these in equal proportions - roughly two of the big bottles of each and you get a sort of sludgy brown color. I then dilute it 80/20 (or thinner) with Floquil thinner. I do this all in what used to be a spaghetti sauce jar.
I make sure that the track is as clean as possible before dipping - unless it's one of Fruil's more fragile tracks, a toothbrush and some Dawn does an excellent job. By te time your done it should be a nice, bright metal rather than looking like a dull casting. I then take a length (you can try to do an entire track at once) and dip it into the spaghetti sauce jar - I've typically looped some wire through a suitable lightening hole in a link on one end of the track - immersing it completely. Then you lift it clear of the liquid and let it drip until most of the excess has run off. The liquid should be thin enough that you don't have to worry about streaks or runs.
I then hang the track over something like three layers of paper towelling for 2-3 days. It doesn't hurt to "rotate" the track at some point, so that it's hanging from the other end. It'll still drip occasonally for the first day or so, after that it's just a matter of waiting for the paint to dry.
Once the dip has dried I typically apply some Rustall - both their rust and the black wash. Then a little light going over with a sanding stick on "raised" areas that tend to remain in contact with the ground, to reveal the metal, and finally I hit the whole thing with Dullcote to seal it.
Unfortunately my digital camera is dead, so I can't post a pic showing it, but I did use it on my SP Designs IT-1 conversion, and there's a pic of that on the SAAM site at:
http://saammodels.tripod.com/companies/spdesigns/T62/it1/index.htm
Mine's the grimy looking one. It doesn't really show the tracks very well. I also used the technique on the tracks I put on my Cromwell E-10 which, typically appears to be the one kit I've built that I've never taken a photo of.
I actually got the recipe for the stuff here on Track-Link - maybe the original poster can post their original technique that I adapted mine from.
Al |
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 | Fruilmodel tracks, how do you paint ??? - Pawel Kowalski - Aug 31, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Fruilmodel tracks, how do you paint ??? - Damon Agretto - Aug 31, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Fruilmodel tracks, how do you paint ??? - John F. Steinman - Aug 31, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Fruilmodel tracks, how do you paint ??? - Al Crawford - Sep 1, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Fruilmodel tracks, how do you paint ??? - Carl Walter - Sep 1, 2006 |
| . . . How i do it! - Frank Forster - Aug 31, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Fruilmodel tracks, how do you paint ??? - Thomas J. Deimling - Sep 1, 2006 |
| . . . Yikes! - Pawel Kowalski - Sep 2, 2006 |
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