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I think yes everyone should be less sensitive, I only ask because I've read John Hayes book ( 4 mm Coal Wagon ) about making a gauge for buffer heights but neglects to say what that height should be. I've been rewheeling to P4 so I have to worry about buffer height with a more accurate wheel size e.g Dapol carriages . I've not measured the 2 dozen Airfix/ Dapol modified mineral wagons I've put together or Cambrian Salmons and Hornby 21 ton mineral wagons with new underbodies this all could get a bit silly if they all roughly don't sit at the same height especially those wagons which I decide to compensate or spring. Bert

Hi All What was the standard buffer height during the steam era? Cheers Bert

wouldn't recommend washing up liquid as a wetting solution, car shampoo would be better no salt, for the more professional artist suppliers do supply wetting, water tension solutions. Bert

Thanks for that, when speaking to a guy at Phoenix he was most insistent that I should spray at their recommended temperature, perhaps he doesn't appreciate that airbrushing takes place at 6 to 8 inches from the item, a third less than in the industrial situation, reducing time for the solvents to dry, but my fear would be undue clogging within a reasonable period of application. I was watching a program which included painting carriages in India, they still brush paint in the high eighties perhaps that's why. Bert

Hi All You might say I'm a newbie, after half century of having done no railway modelling apart keeping a hand in now and again. I'm in the process of building a house with a games room dedicated to our hobby which includes temperature control about room temperature with a workshop just beyond the fiddle yard. However I've been in touch with Phoenix Paints, they say that I should not airbrush paints above 14 degrees C other wise the solvents would dry too quickly, their paints were primarily designed to be used outside in industrial conditions they have supplied to Derby maybe still do and Derby supplies information to them, you cannot ask for a better pedigree. However I cannot drop the temperature to 14 degrees to do a bit of airbrush painting without detrimental effects to the layout, the very effect that we try to eradicate with our models. So what is the general consensus at which temperature you should airbrush paint and I would imagine further thin the paint. Bert