I was so pleased with the way the pinstriping on the Garratt came out that I decided to do more on other pieces to give them the look that they belong to the same family.
Great work. That is looking like a first rate railroad that has a very healthy maintenance budget. Everything is so clean and freshly painted. Very well done.
Did I miss it, how are you doing the pin stripping? Paint, Vinyl, decal. If paint how are you getting your clean edges. We need details man.
I am also curious about the pin-striping.
I know of and have used 3 techniques: stick-on stipes from the r/c car or plane guys, a bow/lining pen, and my latest find: a paint pen. The latter is available at your local art supply and comes in a variety of colors and widths. It’s just like a fine writing pen but it puts down paint. I got the gold and used it on a coach (see pic attached. The waistline has a gold stripe.)
That is a very fine line you put on Pete. I haven’t had much success with those paint pens. I used a 1/16th inch pinstripe from “great planes” I think is the name.
On another project I had used automotive pinstriping but that seems thicker than this hobby use yellow one which lays down nicely.
The MAC speeder does have a bit of weathering around the edges that is tough to see due to poor photo quality. That speeder was my entry in the Mik’s build challenge a few years back.
The rail truck hasn’t seen anything but shelf time since I bought it. I’m yet to do the screw fix and I am still toying with going the battery RC route with it. After those things are finished it will get a mild dose of weathering.
The MAC speeder.
I have had very mixed results with the paint pens. They don’t seem to play nice on very smooth plastic, the one I have are ball point, but on a matte paint work better. I have not done so yet but spraying a matte clear and then applying the paint pen might make it work better.
I think they have tremendous potential if I can get them to work consistently. I used them for graffiti work in HO and I was iffy about how I liked the results.
Pete any trouble getting the paint to go on evenly and smooth?
Devon Sinsley said:
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Pete any trouble getting the paint to go on evenly and smooth?
I have to confess I didn’t do any more than that coach with the pen. But it did the coach fine.
Well it did what oyu want so I guess it worked. . .at least in that application.
You could always just paint on the pin stripe. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
David Maynard said:
You could always just paint on the pin stripe. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
you haven’t seen how steady my hand is, it would be graffiti by the time I was done.
blue painter’s tape is my friend.
Actually they make rub on stripes in various sizes. So, you paint the colour you want the stripe and let that dry real good. Then rub on the stripe from a rub on set, then paint the model in its body colour. Then, after the paint has dried real good, you lift off the rub on with masking tape, or scotch tape. It takes a little effort, but it works.
Decals work a treat for striping. Stan Cedarleaf can make some up in sections or the entire border like say for a locomotive cab number frame.
http://gold.mylargescale.com/StanCedarleaf/WebPageDecals/CustomDecalsx.html
Decals work a treat for striping. Stan Cedarleaf can make some up in sections or the entire border like say for a locomotive cab number frame.
http://gold.mylargescale.com/StanCedarleaf/WebPageDecals/CustomDecalsx.html