Hi John,
A friend of mine who is a custom painter tried the paint and had trouble with
it eating though the black under coat and eating at the plastic, seem like
everything he tried didn't work it just kept eating though and attacking the
plastic. He did say that it looked really good where it didn't eat the
plastic. Dave Lotz and I have some but we haven't had the chance to try it.
John Lee
St.Louis, MO
> Hi Gang,
>
> Proto 2000 has just released their 'new' re-tooled E-8/9 A & B units
> with
> corrected nose contour (and other improvements). The locomotives are a big
> improvement over the earlier E-8/9's (which weren't bad) and now resemble
> the Highliner & InterMountain 'F' unit 'Bulldog' noses. I plan to paint
> several of the E-8/9 'A' units in CB&Q and want to simulate the stainless
> steel side panels with Alclad II Stainless Steel lacquer paint that I just
> acquired. My distributor friend told me that guys building aircraft models
> use this paint and have had excellent results simulating stainless steel.
> The Alclad paint is a non-buffing paint and come pre-thinned for
> airbrushing. The directions say to paint the surface of the model with a
> Gloss Black enamel, let dry, and then apply 2 light coats of Stainless
> Steel
> over the top at 12-15psi. Has anyone had experience with airbrushing Alclad
> II in this application? Or am I going into unchartered waters here! I think
> I will airbrush some scrap pieces of sheet styrene first, for practice, so
> I
> don't screw-up a perfectly good locomotive. Any help on this matter would
> be
> appreciated- Thanks,
>
> John Olson
> Montana- 'The last BEST place'
>
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