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- From: macman+@pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.railroad
- Subject: Re: Weathering plastic track
- Message-ID: <2286@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:00:59 GMT
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- In article <sfLU8Zq00iV349hkcr@andrew.cmu.edu> cb4n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Colin John Brodsky) writes:
- >Is there an effective way to make Atlas' plastic ties look better?
- >Has anyone tried painting them, and if so, how did it work? Would any
- >of the Floquill colors be good for this purpose?
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- Almost any-ol' paint of the right color will do the job. My personal
- favorite is Floquil Roof Brown. It's dead-flat, goes quite far if thinned
- 50-50, and "just looks right to me". Just airbrush the rails and ties...
- the nickel-silver rails are worse to look at than the ties. Then clean it
- all off the railtops with a bright boy.
-
- Why not Floquil "rail brown"?? IMHO it's way too light of a color...
- closer to mud than oily OLD rust.
-
- Den
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