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[Izzy]

If no one minds I must say that when I returned to modelling in 2010 after a decade long break I thought I would use Acrylics, and after spending a fair amount on them eventually went back to enamels, then finding my years old Humbrol ones - those I still had left - much better than present day offerings, with better flow and coverage. 

I guess this may probably be down to the newer rules governing chemicals etc and how they are formulated, but I also discovered that enamels are easier to use via an airbrush, not drying out so quickly making cleaning less of a chore. I now stick to Precision, or Humbrol/Revell if there is no option. I also use a little Neo now, with it’s gravity feed there is little paint wastage, and especially for weathering where just small amounts of different hues are used. 

Not sure my securing chains are any better, or even as good as the others shown on here, but my thanks for the nice comments anyway.

regards,

Izzy

[Nickey Line]

11 hours ago, jwealleans said:

You don't say what era you model so it's difficult to give specific paint advice except that where possible I use Halfords aerosols as they're larger and better quality than the specialist paint suppliers.  The BR containers here are BMW Zinnobar Red.  Somewhere in the depths of RMWeb there is a thread on car equivalents for railway colours.  The RAF Lossiemouth club also used to publish a list on their web page.

 

Halfords paint list

 

The topic has been pinned, so it's easy to find, but here's a link anyway...

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[Mookie]

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[Mookie]

On 02/02/2019 at 06:04, jwealleans said:

You don't say what era you model so it's difficult to give specific paint advice except that where possible I use Halfords aerosols as they're larger and better quality than the specialist paint suppliers.  The BR containers here are BMW Zinnobar Red.  Somewhere in the depths of RMWeb there is a thread on car equivalents for railway colours.  The RAF Lossiemouth club also used to publish a list on their web page.

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[Nickey Line]

8 minutes ago, Mookie said:

 

Hello Jonathan, 

 

do you decant the paint from the aerosols, or do you spray your models straight from the can?

 

Kind regards,

 

Mookie. 

 

You can't be serious surely! 

I think you'd get into a terrible mess... 

[Mookie]

On 03/02/2019 at 21:56, Nickey Line said:

 

You can't be serious surely! 

I think you'd get into a terrible mess... 

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[Nickey Line]

18 minutes ago, Mookie said:

 

Depend on how it's done. I've seen modellers do it on Youtube. I suppose you can get better results, if you can spray it through your airbrush, rather than relying on the plastic nozzle supplied.

 

Don't think I'd like to try it personally.

But this is why Halfords own brand sprays are recommended - the nozzles are surprisingly good, apparently.

[Nickey Line]

Hi Mookie, just spent a few minutes watching youtube vids of decanting from aerosols... I have to admit it hadn't occurred to me that this was even an option! 

Mind you, looks like a lot of trouble to go to if you ask me.

[jwealleans]

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do you decant the paint from the aerosols, or do you spray your models straight from the can?

 

Spray, unless I'm touching in damaged or missed areas.  TBH I brush paint most things and then use spray varnish over the top, but where there's a convenient aerosol then I'm happy to use it.

[TheSignalEngineer]

On 24/01/2019 at 15:58, Mookie said:

 

 

Hello Brian,

 

here's a few images of the kit.

 

One is the construction of the kit.

 

The other show the sprue with the extra parts, excluding the container that sits on the wagon.

 

 

x2 refers to how many duplicate sprues.

 

Red is extra parts to make a different frame – frame end, buffers etc.

 

Green A and B, I'm not sure if they are parts for another kit and C looks like the teeth you get for holding on the hand brakes. Which are not on the instructions.

 

Also you get 4 brake handles and brake shoe mouldings.

 

kind regards,

 

Mookie

IIRC the black bit you have highlighted on the left is the spring box for the solebars of a shocvan. 

 

Parkside did some standard sprues to cover several types of chassis. Some of these are available separately and I have used some of them for building better chassis for old RTR wagons such as the Airfix 5-plank and 12T box van. I have a large box of spare bits from old sprues which come in useful during conversions and upgrades.  I recently built a new 8-shoe clasp brake chassis for the old Mainline Lowfit to diagram 1/001 from a Parkside chassis kit, a few  left over bits plus some buffers and pipes from Dave Franks.