New Model Railroader from Northern Illinois

From what I've seen, most paint intended for model railroading is going to be airbrush friendly. Sadly Floquil and Polly S are no more- what I'd give to spray some Floquil again! :( Badger makes a line of model RR paint, and there was some new company I heard about... I'll have to see if I can dig up some info on that.

Don't quote me but I can't see golden high flow working on model RR equipment. I would at least start with something model RR oriented. I guess I should strip that GP-38 shell down and try out some different paints on it. I would not recommend using anything by Createx- it can be done but you really have to know what you're doing.
 
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A couple of photo's of the scenery!
 

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Welcome to the forum Dave, i've read that Stynylrez from Badger is a really good primer/basecoat and for the airbrush too.

Lee
 
Jurien72: I agree - some of those Golden High Flow colors would make for a pretty wild locomotive paint scheme (Iridescent Pearl anyone?). But they do have many of the basic weathering colors covered (siennas, raw umber, carbon black). And the colors will work on vehicles and structures.

I have looked at the Badger paint offerings and I will need some of those Milwaukee Road-specific colors.

jord001: I will certainly try the Stynylrez.

Thanks for the guidance. I have added all of it to my notebook.
Dave
 
ComArt has a weathering kit that is just up your alley for railroading:) I do scenery also, just mine is for gaming:) I use the same techniques though.
 
Golden paints would at least work on scenery items like backdrops and whatnot! I wonder if that Tru-Color paint is what I was thinking of. I tried to get back into model railroading a couple years ago, but just have too much going on. I wanna say AccuRail makes a line of paint but I could very easily be thinking of the wrong name.
 
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