Weekend Update 6/14/15

[peteski]

The bottle says ready to spray from the bottle but after a few tips from another trucolor user i thinned the paint with a little 100% acetone finger nail polish remover (the paint is acetone based). With the extra little bit of thinner in it it sprayed beautifully.

Be careful using fingernail polish remover - those often have other things (like skin lotion or conditioners) added to the acetone.  Why not just use pure acetone from any hardware store? It comes in quart and gallon containers and it quite inexpensive.  Or actually use the TrueColor thinner?  That option is a bit pricier but guarantees compatibility.

[Philip H]

I played with chemicals to begin altering a classic:

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=36225.msg430703#msg430703

[Joetrain59]

wcfn100, those look like ex LIRR coaches on that Iowa Interstate fundraiser. Cool to see them still rolling.
 Joe D

[Joetrain59]

At the Danbury (CT) Railway Museum on Saturday.

[jmlaboda]

wcfn100, those look like ex LIRR coaches on that Iowa Interstate fundraiser.

But those aren't LI cars... they are some ex-CP cars that were sold to Agence Metropolitaine de Transport out of Montreal.

[Joetrain59]

Thanks for the clarification, JM.

[bnsfdash8]

Be careful using fingernail polish remover - those often have other things (like skin lotion or conditioners) added to the acetone.  Why not just use pure acetone from any hardware store? It comes in quart and gallon containers and it quite inexpensive.  Or actually use the TrueColor thinner?  That option is a bit pricier but guarantees compatibility.

I had no issues with the nail polish remover I had on hand (I mainly used it since it saved me a trip to the store), but pure acetone would be the better option.

[basementcalling]

I had no issues with the nail polish remover I had on hand (I mainly used it since it saved me a trip to the store), but pure acetone would be the better option.

I'm guessing this is not an acrylic paint then as it has a solvent based thinner? Full precautions when you spray it? Respirator, no ignition sources, etc...

That is what I miss most about Polyscale, the safe paint that won't turn my pilot light into a rocketship engine.

[Puddington]

But those aren't LI cars... they are some ex-CP cars that were sold to Agence Metropolitaine de Transport out of Montreal.

The most uncomfortable (trust me on that one) cars the CP ever owned...... rode like a bucking bronco and the seats were right out of a horror movie.... ugh!

[bnsfdash8]

I'm guessing this is not an acrylic paint then as it has a solvent based thinner? Full precautions when you spray it? Respirator, no ignition sources, etc...

That is what I miss most about Polyscale, the safe paint that won't turn my pilot light into a rocketship engine.

You probably shouldn't huff the stuff but I sprayed it outside since I don't have an indoor spray booth. No it's not acrylic and the bottle says flammable so probably shouldn't spray it near an open flame.