Painting resin models

[chicken45]

Max- that piece in the center is upside down. The little "lip" should point up.

I think the LIRR did have B60b cars. The PRRPro Yahoo group has photos of them ( I think).

I had no trouble with painting my HGM resin. In fact, the only time I ever had issues painting resin was with the GHQ L1 tender. I could not get the paint to stick to it and I cleaned it with all the suggested things. I may have been spraying the paint too dry, but I didn't spray it any drier than anything else and never had problems before.

As for the color? I don't know. The right answer is "get an airbrush and mix it yourself" but that's an investment. I know tuscan changed through the years, I think Doug Nelson uses a boxcar red?
I use a 50/50 mix of zinc chromate and boxcar red.
Here's a lousy comparison shot:
The top is Kato, the middle is my mix, the bottom is MTL. The RTR cars are glossy so my mix looks lighter.

[Joetrain59]

Max, the middle of truck frames with "nubbers" are upside down.
 Joe D
  Did not see Chicken 45's post with same advice on trucks.
 Those Pennsy cars all look good. And yes, LIRR did have some.

[Joetrain59]

Max, whose metal wheels did you put on?
 Joe D

[mmagliaro]

Egads!

Here... I flipped the nubbers.  THANK YOU.  I have had that model done and the photos posted for years.
And nobody ever told me!

The paint is a mixture of
Scalecoat Tuscan Red and Scalecoat Boxcar Red.

The metal wheels are... um...I cannot remember.  It's been a long time.  But looking at them, I think
they are Atlas metal wheelsets. 

There are little flaws in this car.  Being resin, it had a few odd bulges in it
which I didn't catch.  You can see one at the lettering "V A N" at the end of "PENNSYLVANIA".

[Joetrain59]

Yes, lot's of little flaws in resin models, but protos get banged up good, too. Saw some dent's in proto pix, up high on corners of car.
 Took me quite a while to add those corner grabs. Had to bend GMM drill jig to fit, then tape. Waiting on stirrups from GMM Kato smoothside detail kit, but they don't look accurate. Brass parts are so soft, they mangle easily. That's why I like BLMA parts, usually stainless steel. But Craig is more into making cars these days.
 Joe D

[Joetrain59]

FVM 3302 metal wheels fit perfect.
 Now to my next thread about parts packaging!
 Joe D