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Kisatchie

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Stripping Paint: Part II
« on: October 17, 2015, 05:56:10 PM »
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Going completely crazy stripping paint the last couple of days, I decided to strip some Atlas ACF 2 bay coverhed hoppers.

I took one of my Blue Circle Cement cars and put it in the Wash Away. The car floated, since it's full of air. I could have struggled and pried the roof off, but that would be one more messy step to do on 13 cars. I decided to leave the lettering on the rest of the cars and just spray them gray. I figured the lettering would show through the paint, and if it did, I would resign myself to stripping the paint off one day in the far distant future.

Well, guess what! The gray Tamiya (rattle can) spray paint covered all the lettering completely. Now all I need to do is find suitable decals for the cars.

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Re: Stripping Paint: Part II
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2015, 06:46:04 PM »
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Good result. Tamiya Surface Primer Grey is a great product so too their light grey for this sort of work.
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Re: Stripping Paint: Part II
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2015, 12:46:02 AM »
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On the other hand, Tamiya "Dull Red" won't cover Exact Rails' white lettering at all.  I tried to spray an MP boxcar, already brown with white lettering, and the white actually repelled the paint.
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Re: Stripping Paint: Part II
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2015, 08:48:32 PM »
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Bugger.
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Re: Stripping Paint: Part II
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2015, 09:13:22 PM »
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I would have thought you would have been ok with priming a car without removing the paint - especially a smooth side car (without rivet or louver detail).  HO scale is another story - lettering would be 5mm thick in real life.
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Re: Stripping Paint: Part II
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2015, 10:00:14 PM »
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Kiz,  while that car did float, it is not fully liquid-tight.  If you had it in the fluid for several minutes, some of the stripping fluid found its way into the hollow body.  So don't be surprised that after you nicely repaint that car, you might find some of the liquid oozing out. I never strip assembled cars. I always take them apart before stripping.

I also agree with  :tommann: that if the original paint was thinly applied, and there aren't many fine details on the body, you should be able to just shoot some Tamiya fine primer (gray or white) over the original paint.  That primer goes on very thin and produces a semigloss finish.
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