DM&IR M-4 yellowstone by Westside.
Masked off the boiler for the grey. Unusual boiler in that the boiler lagging covers the smoke box, thus the front also gets the grey.
Taping around the sand domes usually requires about 1/16" wide masking tape to get accurate positioning. Lately, I've been also masking any large piping and the steps along the boiler to save having to touch paint those parts black. Takes a couple hours to mask off the area.
The masking tape is immediately removed after painting and cleanup of air brush:
1. Any over spray, like on a sand dome, can be easily removed with a toothpick and some water (saliva works well) and some gentle rubbing.
2. removing tape after the paint has cured will likely result in tearing off paint from the boiler.
3. the longer the tape is on, the more likely it may remove some of the paint underneath it. Tape is removed at a sharp angle to reduce stress on the previous applied paint (in this case, black).
Milwaukee EP-2:
Bad news, good new, bad new, good new!
There was no way that I was going to be able to mask off for the red stripe but it was easy to add the red since little time was lost since no masking was involved.
After adding the red paint and cleaning up, I noticed that the center section has no removable base that gets a red stripe versus the two ends that have removable bases for the red stripe so I had to add red to the bottom of the center section. Glad I caught it now.
