Accurail reefer
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Clark Propst
Picked up this undec Accurail reefer kit at a swap meet for a "Make me buy it" price. I could use another reefer for my two canning companies.
One photo shows why you need to hoard decals. There are Herald King stripes and old Walthers data sheets in there along with the Odd Ball's set I used with the remains of a Mark Vaughan set. Project was pretty straight forward, scrap off the molded on detail and replace with homemade ladders using .020x.020 styrene for the stiles and Tichy rungs. Also used Tichy grabs and wire along with Tangent eye bolts. Intermountain wheels and Kadee 158 couplers. To avoid consistency in my weathering, this model was airbrushed with three different tinted Dullcotes. Off white, brown and black. Photos show mistakes the eye doesn't catch. Even crappy iPhone photos. I had some bubbles in the decals I've since taken care of...I think? Nice thing about Accurail reefers is you can paint the roof/ends, underframe and sides different colors without any masking. Clark Propst 
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It looks good Clark and it is amazing what we keep in order to make good kit bashes. I like the look Fenton Picked up this undec Accurail reefer kit at a swap meet for a "Make me buy it" price. I could use another reefer for my two canning companies. --
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Jim and Barbara van Gaasbeek
Nice work.
How do you store decals such that they don’t dry out / crack /delaminate?
Jim van Gaasbeek Irvein, CA
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Clark Propst
How do you store decals such that they don’t dry out / crack /delaminate? Jim van Gaasbeek They are
stored is the packages you see. I kept in a file card metal cabinet I got from
work when they computerized the stock inventory. I did brush MicroScale decal
film on the Odd Balls decals. They were very thin when new and didn’t want to
risk them breaking up. The old Walthers decals did break up. I must have tried
using 3 or 4 7s in the reweigh date.
Clark
Propst Mason City Iowa |
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Bill J.
Clark, how do you tint your Dullcoat? It’s a varnish thinned with lacquer thinner while paints are often enamels that won’t mix!
Mystified Bill Jolitz |
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Jim and Barbara van Gaasbeek
Thanks.
Jim
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How do you store decals such that they don’t dry out / crack /delaminate? Jim van Gaasbeek They are stored is the packages you see. I kept in a file card metal cabinet I got from work when they computerized the stock inventory. I did brush MicroScale decal film on the Odd Balls decals. They were very thin when new and didn’t want to risk them breaking up. The old Walthers decals did break up. I must have tried using 3 or 4 7s in the reweigh date.
Clark Propst |
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Clark Propst
Clark, how do you tint your Dullcoat? It’s a varnish thinned with lacquer thinner while paints are often enamels that won’t mix! Mystified Bill Jolitz You wouldn’t think so. I just do stuff. I try not to analyze. Clark Propst |
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golden1014
Hi Bill, John Golden |
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Steve SANDIFER
When I get a new bottle of Dullcoat or glosscoat, I put half of it in an empty bottle and then fill the bottle up with lacquer thinner. That becomes my spray mix. If I want a semi-gloss, I then put ½ of a spray mix bottle of dull and ½ of a spray mix of gloss in another empty and that becomes my spray mix of semi-gloss.
J. Stephen Sandifer
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Hi Bill, John Golden |
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food coloring or something like it ? I saw some amazing layout 'water' once that was dyed with food coloring. Tamiya sells transparent tints -- perhaps a drop or two of those ? On 9/24/2022 5:17 PM, Clark Propst via groups.io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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