this is the start of our latest project, we’ll be custom painting these passenger cars and this Berk. I’ll walk you through step by step on how I do a reapaint. I’ll explain the process, the materials and how I apply them....then we’ll let the finished products speak for themselves, with plenty of close ups, and “how to” along the way. I’ll be taking you in the booth with me, so you guys and gals can see how I prep, mask, and paint....The question on painting pops up every now and then, so hopefully someone might can pick up a trick or two from me....I know I’ve picked up plenty of tricks from this forum.....first step, is careful dismantling. All parts are being removed from the surface we are going to paint on. Window glazings, grab irons, brake wheels, etc...all get removed. This adds a level of detail that the factory gave us to begin with. All parts are carefully bagged, and marked for the corresponding car they go to...On the next update, I’ll show you how I remove the lettering, and prep the shell for it’s new color.............Pat
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Looking forward to it!
Hal
excellent subject matter, thank you for doing this. I'm sure a lot of members will benefit from it..
Looking forward to learning
Looks good. Will it be in a new link or continue in this one???
gene maag posted:Looks good. Will it be in a new link or continue in this one???
I’ll continue with this one, should be easy to follow it that way.......Pat
This is great, I haven't done any painting in a long time, so this will be really nice to follow. Looking forward to it.
So here we go...after complete dismantling, the gold lettering is carefully rubbed off with lacquer thinner. I’ll let the cars sit for a little bit and let the lacquer thinner gas out. The cars are then simply abated with fine grey scotchbrite. Then it’s time for a bath in warm soapy water to remove dust, dirts and oils from my fingers. Thoroughly dry, I’ll wipe down with alcohol as a final prep.
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The next step will be to apply a thin sealer coat. In this case I’m using an actual DuPont sealer sprayed from a gun....rattle can primers by your favorite brand are fine...this is what I use...the sealer sits for a minimum of 30 minutes. I usually give it an hour to set up nicely. Then it’s on to top coating...
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And for the fun part, top coating. .....again, sticking with the DuPont products. What we are spraying is a single stage urethane with a flattening agent in it....we’re in our top coat window, so no further abatement is necessary...it’s simple point and shoot from here out...I will mention that I do play a little mad scientist with my reducer, to get the spay out thin as can be but still achieve good color hold out. After a good bit of curing, it will be time for reverse masking, and final colors. I’m not worried about over spray on the roof, this will be reverse masked, scuffed properly and shot a satin black...same deal for our second color...more updates will be soon!.............Pat
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So i'm guessing that's a 6-38050 Berk (circa 2003), and you fitted the pilot from a 2014 model 6-11451. Right?
Ted S posted:So i'm guessing that's a 6-38050 Berk (circa 2003), and you fitted the pilot from a 2014 model 6-11451. Right?
We’ll keep ya guessing Ted....Pat