There have been plenty of threads on painting and weathering wood of distressed or near-derelict buildings.
But passenger equipment was generally kept in fairly good shape, so one doesn't want to see a lot of grain, peeling paint, nail holes, etc., and certainly no "hair".
I've had plenty of experience painting wood in 1:1 scale while restoring my 18th C house. For that, I first coat with a primer to get good adhesion and "set" the hair; then a coat of undercoat to build up thickness, and then a good sand to remove the hair and flatten the irregularities.
When I tried this in HO scale, however, I found the undercoat a bit too thick. I considered a second coat of primer, but the primer doesn't sand terribly easily, and with all the really fiddly inset window frames and the like, you really want sanding to go as smoothly as possible.
So, based on my experience with balsafoam, I tried gesso as an undercoat. It's really thick in the tub, but brushes on so silkily that it goes on thin. I'll let you know what it's like to sand tomorrow....
What do other folks do?
Cheers,
Jeff.
But passenger equipment was generally kept in fairly good shape, so one doesn't want to see a lot of grain, peeling paint, nail holes, etc., and certainly no "hair".
I've had plenty of experience painting wood in 1:1 scale while restoring my 18th C house. For that, I first coat with a primer to get good adhesion and "set" the hair; then a coat of undercoat to build up thickness, and then a good sand to remove the hair and flatten the irregularities.
When I tried this in HO scale, however, I found the undercoat a bit too thick. I considered a second coat of primer, but the primer doesn't sand terribly easily, and with all the really fiddly inset window frames and the like, you really want sanding to go as smoothly as possible.
So, based on my experience with balsafoam, I tried gesso as an undercoat. It's really thick in the tub, but brushes on so silkily that it goes on thin. I'll let you know what it's like to sand tomorrow....
What do other folks do?
Cheers,
Jeff.
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