01-28-2011, 01:24 PM
Kurt -
I have a stock of about 300 to 400 bottles of "original formula" Floquil Paint that I have been using for years.
When I do get around to the Reading Green, since that is a color I never stocked up on back in the '70's and '80's, I had to purchase a couple bottles of the "newer formula" Reading Green and Reading Yellow paint for use on this model. I'm hoping that it thins, atomizes and covers the same as to older version ... I'm not in the mood to use this model as a test bed for learning to use a new type of paint!
I have been brush-painting and then in later years (the '70's) airbrushing Floquil almost exclusively since sometime in the early '60's. I did use the original ScaleCoat (in the "big" bottles) on a couple of brass steam locomotives for clients back in the mid-seventies, but it was not my favorite. I have never used any of the "poly"-type latex paints and I don't plan on learning to do so on a piece of brass!
I always let the applied Floquil dry for an hour or so and then bake the painted pieces at 200°F for an hour or so, resting on a cheap disposable 9" x 6 1/4" aluminum broiler pan, then let it cool totally (in the oven) for several hours before moving on to the next step, especially if it involves any masking. I use blue painter's tape for masking. Oh, and I have a double/over/under oven set up - trains are baked in the upper - so there's no one to worry about being angry about baking painted objects in the oven! (Besides, one session through the "Auto Clean" cycle and all is good for baking a birthday cake while the roast of working down below!)
Once the painting process has begun (starting with the wash with automotive wax/grease remover) I wear nitrile gloves when working on or touching the pieces to be painted.
I hope that answers the question asked ... and any others that you may have been pondering.
8-)
I have a stock of about 300 to 400 bottles of "original formula" Floquil Paint that I have been using for years.
When I do get around to the Reading Green, since that is a color I never stocked up on back in the '70's and '80's, I had to purchase a couple bottles of the "newer formula" Reading Green and Reading Yellow paint for use on this model. I'm hoping that it thins, atomizes and covers the same as to older version ... I'm not in the mood to use this model as a test bed for learning to use a new type of paint!
I have been brush-painting and then in later years (the '70's) airbrushing Floquil almost exclusively since sometime in the early '60's. I did use the original ScaleCoat (in the "big" bottles) on a couple of brass steam locomotives for clients back in the mid-seventies, but it was not my favorite. I have never used any of the "poly"-type latex paints and I don't plan on learning to do so on a piece of brass!
I always let the applied Floquil dry for an hour or so and then bake the painted pieces at 200°F for an hour or so, resting on a cheap disposable 9" x 6 1/4" aluminum broiler pan, then let it cool totally (in the oven) for several hours before moving on to the next step, especially if it involves any masking. I use blue painter's tape for masking. Oh, and I have a double/over/under oven set up - trains are baked in the upper - so there's no one to worry about being angry about baking painted objects in the oven! (Besides, one session through the "Auto Clean" cycle and all is good for baking a birthday cake while the roast of working down below!)
Once the painting process has begun (starting with the wash with automotive wax/grease remover) I wear nitrile gloves when working on or touching the pieces to be painted.
I hope that answers the question asked ... and any others that you may have been pondering.
8-)
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
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Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln