Scott you must be new :-) Accupaint, Star (P-B-L), and TruColor are (were) all made by the same industrial supplier and are essentially the same although ratios of thinner and retarder do seem to

But Andy, You're talking about Accu-Paint. I thought the conversation was about Tru-Color. Are you saying that these two brands are similar enough that automotive lacquer thinner works equally well

There's also a two-part silicone putty from the regular molding and casting guys. Make two equal balls, kneed them together, press on the object....... and wait five minutes. You get a silicone

Andy, Does the stuff work nice with plastics ? To give you a benchmark on that with me.......... I even get ordinary ScaleCoat paint [type-one] to work okay on plastics. Best to ya... Mike

Andy I've used a different automotive lacquer thinner, but not with Accupaint, since I still have a good supply of the AP thinner (I bought 5 or 6 of the large bottles at some point). But when I run

Hello- I was convinced years ago by a Jim Six article on Accu-paint. Jim said that he reduced all of his Accu-paint with automotive lacquer thinner (much better than the hardware store lacquer

There is a photo of AC&F 30000 on page 125,129,404 of the 1940 Car Builders Cyclopedia that matches the car in the Hendrickson photo Al Smith Sonora Ca

Richard, If it looks like a small cannon, couldn't you turn it from a piece of styrene rod in a drill or press, using some small files and sandpaper? Scott haycock For

What about a fire fighting tug sprayer? http://modeltechstudios.com/hoscalewaterlineseries-firefightingtugboatkit.aspx $90 would be too much for the sprayer only, but ask the manufacturer or see if

Wow! What a homely looking critter. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Rich, Not long ago the Great Northern Hysterical Society offered a kit for just such a thing: https://www.gnrhs.org/sold_out_kits.htm Being a member of said Society, I have one of those kits. The

Allen, While Tru Color is acetone based, I wouldn’t rush out to buy acetone as a diluent. Acetone is good for cleanup, but I stay with the manufacturer’s thinner for dilutions. Tru Color’s

For the track level sprayers, cut down ladders is exactly what I am planning on using. It's the topside sprayers, which look like some kind of cannons, that are the problem. And, yes, I have looked

I think I would be looking through bits of sprue or else split a plastic ladder lengthwise to leave pieces of rung hanging down as nozzles. Chuck Peck

Walthers has or had an oil loading rack kit. There were arms that swung over the tank car dooms to fill the cars. Perhaps one of these arms would work. Pat Wade Santa Barbara, CA

There is a material called dental impression putty. Two part stuff like an epoxy. Available from many sources including Amazon. I have no experience at using it. Chuck Peck

Micro Mark carries a rubber mold making material that is reusable. You heat the rubber material in the microwave pour your mold, cast and than you can create a new mold by reheating the mold material

---In STMFC@..., <jayrs9@...> wrote : Dennis, thanks for a peak inside the working of the Pullman Library. I sent an email query to them a couple days ago using the address in the link you gave

Denny wrote: [Snip] I too use an Iwata Eclipse, but I use removable 0.5 oz. bottles with a Paasche double-action coupling rather than a gravity feed ( I am not certain why feed type would make any

I will echo on Bill’s comments regarding acrylic paints, especially Model-Flex. I have both the Badger Anthem 155 and an Iwata Eclipse, both siphon feed. The larger tip is necessary for acrylic