On some of these I may be able to reverse mask and just repaint the grey saving the red. I will try it out on the caboose
I used Scalecoat II on two locos and I like how they came out. Good paint. I also used floquil on a loco and I like how that worked out. A couple years ago I did a P42 using a combination of floquil and badger acrylic. Turned out really good. These well you see what happened.
Got a coat of paint on the homasote with some help from the executive office (she's the artist). Transferred center lines from my printed layout plan onto the first half. Positioned some track and turnouts I had on hand but my order for the rest didn't get to my LHS in time so I'm on hold till next weekend. Meanwhile I'm starting to design an Arduino-based control panel for that section.
Finally started laying track on my switching layout. Not much done yet, but just making some progress feels like I'm over the hump.
Kevin, use Tamiya tape and a rounded wood tooth pick to get it to settle better around ribs and such. Try Tru-Color sprayed at 20-25 PSI and make light passes. I get nice hard lines this way.
Also Polly Scale gets runny real quick. If you have to use PS, thin it the consistency of milk and shoot it at a low PSI of 16-18.
I do have some floquil in that color as well. It is SP scarlet. The colors are Utah railway colors csx grey and sp scarlet.
I've abandoned the use of Floquil and Polly Scale for various reasons however if you look through my blog, there is a step by step on painting a GP30 in CB&Q. It includes some of my tricks that I have learned through the years and maybe helpful.
Will take a look thanks. I have used the scale coat II and really like the end result. I have also used badger paints and they work well too.
One thing I learned (painting rockets) is to apply your masking and then re-shoot a very light coat of the base color to seal the edges. Once that's dry, then shoot the color you masked for.
Well stripping these two down to start over. They almost look weathered. The others I may be able to salvage the paint job with a little masking tape and a fresh coat of paint.
