I am having some bleed over between colors. I am painting GTW locomotives in the blue and orange. I did the orange ends first, re-taped the model with blue painters tape and then painted the blue. I had thought I did a good job taping, but some of the blue got through. I had to re-primer and repaint the end of the locomotive. What advice do you have when using muliple colors?
After you get the tape on, you could give it a coat of clear to seal the edge of the tape.
Steve S
That works for me too.
Mel
Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951
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I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
Always cut a new edge on the tape with a new sharp blade. Roll a length of tape onto a piece of glass and re-cut the edge - the edge of the tape off the roll is not sharp by no means.
Once applied to the model, burnish the edges down well - I use round toothpicks.
When spraying, never spray straight towards the edge of the tape any more than you have to.
Mark.
Get narrow fine line masking tape for the actual masking line, then use the regular blue tape to cover the area beyond the fine line tape.
do not use the greenish painters tape. DAMHIK
You may be better off using the Tamiya masking tape straight from the Tamiya dispensers. I’ve had pretty good luck with the that, the edges stay clean/fuzz-free, and generally you don’t have to recut the edges unless you’re doing something ultra precise. It’s not expensive stuff either. Hobby Lobby carries it.
Scotch 3M #218 Fine Line Tape…1/4’’ 60 yds. Make sure Your paint is Cured…not just dry before masking and painting, other color, usually 48 hrs is ok, but I go longer. When using the tape, You slightly burnish the edge where You want to change color. Then put Your other tape or paper half way over the fine line tape. Pull off at 45 degree angle towards the side You burnished. People have a tendency to rush paint jobs and always ends in disaster. Any Automotive paint supplier should have it and will last probably a life time with the size paint jobs Your dealing with. Using any kind of masking tape is fine for some, but I don’t care for the thick line it leaves on any paint job!
Good Luck! Patience!
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
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From my Hints and Tips Column…
You can reduce the amount of bleeding under masking tape when spraying your models quite considerably.
Paint the colour you want to be masked off and allow to dry thoroughly. Apply your masking. Then respray your model with the original colour. If there are holes in the masking, the overspray of the original colour will fill the spots where your secondary colour could have overrun the first colour. Allow to dry again.
Then spray with your secondary colour. Because the “holes” have been blocked, you should minimise any overrun you had under the paint masking and your lines should look quite neat! Now it should be easy to paint your blue and red and keep the lines!
Only wish I had this info myself when I was painting the black stripe on my Canadian Budd Rail Cars
Cheers from Australia
Trevor
FOR HO Scale Painting, you need an HO SCALE Paint Brush. Thoes are rather small, so you will need a HO scale LPP to do the work.
Putting the tape on, may not be good enough, you may need to put the tape down, and then burnish it in to place with a burnishing tool. Any round metal tool will do.
LIONS are not so fussy. They just cut the colors in by hand.
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Is good enough for a LION.
ROAR