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Can't the buffer heads be removed during painting?

21 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

Can't the buffer heads be removed during painting?

 

They're the Bachmann ones, so they come pre-assembled with no obvious way of disassembling them. Unfortunate, but since none of my stock gets close enough to compress the buffers anyway, it seems unimportant.

Can't you mask off with bluetac or something else?

Looks interesting! Cheers Ian

 

11 hours ago, ianmaccormac said:

Can't you mask off with bluetac or something else?

Looks interesting! Cheers Ian

 

I can (and will) mask up as much of it as possible when the main body colour goes on, but when it comes to painting the bufferbeams I haven't yet found a red that covers well, so it usually takes several coats and some will inevitably get in. I've got a fresh pot of Revell red though which I haven't tried before, so we'll see how that goes

Try painting the bufferbeams with white primer. The red should be better but get a better buffer beam red.

 

Baz

13 minutes ago, Barry O said:

The red should be better but get a better buffer beam red.

 

I've tried and failed to say that ten times quickly.