Bill, Thank you for saying this. I thought there was something wrong with my airbrush, or that I had lost my technique. You have restored by confidence. -Wes Ewell
www.twofootartist.com ________________________________ From: Bill Lane <[email protected]> To: PRR Modeling <[email protected]>; S Scale List <[email protected]>; Steam Era Freight cars <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:41 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Scalecoat paint For over 20 years I have used Scalecoat for the car color and Floquil weathering. I lost track of how many models I have painted - 99% of which were brass – but it is well over 500. Yesterday I started painting some O Scale boxcars in Floquil because that is what I was told to do. The cars were freshly blasted in my booth. Since I am decaling I mixed 2 bottles of paint in with 1 bottle of high gloss. Floquil does NOT COVER especially in the hard corners. I sprayed and sprayed waiting for it to build and cover but it did not - at least to my satisfaction. I was going to paint, bake and paint again to get good coverage when I stopped saying this is just wrong. After some campaigning I was able to switch to Scalecoat and completed painting the cars to an excellent finish. The best thing I could say about the Floquil paint is it came off in the blast booth in record time – much easier than the original clear coat on the cars! I know that there are some other “newer” brands some of which I have also recently used for the first time. But for me I will stick to Scalecoat. It just works! I have goofed that the last bottle of Scalecoat will be pried from my cold dead hands! Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988
