{"id":3420,"date":"2009-06-26T10:34:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2009-07-02T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T03:24:01","slug":"painting-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=3420","title":{"rendered":"Painting Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

No more PC board ties…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yesterday I painted all the trackwork on the layout. Well, almost all of it, I decided to leave one three way turnout and a length of track unpainted until after the train show so people can see the construction technique.<\/p>\n

If you smelled Floquil paint in the air yesterday, it was from me, sorry about that….<\/p>\n

It almost didn’t get done. I started early on it, hoping to finish the painting before noon. I noticed my airbrush needed cleaning, so I took it apart and soaked all the parts in lacquer thinner, which dissolves all the hardened paint deposits. When I reassembled it I had no air. A few minutes playing with it and I realized I should not have soaked the air valve in lacquer thinner as there is an O ring in it that swelled up to twice the size and cut off the air. I hunted up the part number on Badgers site (I have a 155 airbrush) and started phoning around for one. I managed to finally locate on in Dundas, about 35 minutes from here. So I made a trip out to get it, which killed 2 hours.<\/p>\n

With that fixed up I started painting, as shown in the video. 2 hours into the job and we had a nasty thunderstorm that knocked out the power for 2 hours. I managed to finish up the painting at 10 pm.<\/p>\n

Its all done now, and looks much better. It is only a base coat, I will be doing more to it later prior to ballasting, but for now it is an improvement over the bare copper ties, although that did create a neat effect…<\/p>\n

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All the track is painted with Floquil’s Railroad Tie Brown, unthinned, straight from the bottle. I used 3 jars for the job. Unfortunately two of the three were from a bad batch and the colour didn’t match the first one very well. It really won’t matter though.<\/p>\n

After I paint a section of track, I immediately clean the the paint from the rails using small squares of wood. This makes quick work of cleaning up the rail, and also keeps me from accidentally disturbing the paint on the PC board ties. A few passes is all it takes to get 99% of the paint off the rails. If the paint dries a bit I simply dip the wood block into some lacquer thinner and give it a rub followed with a pass from a dry piece of wood. I cut up a bag of a few hundred of these blocks ahead of time so I have plenty on hand when painting. Once dry, I give everything a cleaning with a bright boy. <\/p>\n

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This week I also finished off my brass model of CNJ 1000, which there are some shots of in the video.<\/p>\n

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Getting closer…..<\/p>\n

-T.<\/p>\n

On to Next Section…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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