I have assembled a Walthers 2 stall engine house and did not paint the green windows before assembly. Any good ideas how to paint the installed windows without making a complete mess of the windows and the adjacent brick? Thanks for any ideas.
I have tried neither idea below but they occur to me so why not post?
- Paint the windows and surrounding areas green, being as careful as you can be to confine the green to the windows, and then mask off the window areas and go back and repaint the walls. Xerox the sides and cut out the window from the paper copy to make the mask. They should be exact size. as a precaution may be make one copy enlarged 1% and one copy reduced 1%.
Avery makes a removable glue stick that is very lightly tacky – makes any piece of paper a post it note. That may be enough tack to hold the paper onto the window without bleed under.
- Sometimes the windows just pop out with a bit of light finger pressure even though you used the right cement and right techniques. Obviously the best technique is to paint before installing. Even if just a few windows come out that gets you ahead of the game. If you do end up needing to mask some windows, I was able to get some 1/4 inch wide masking tape cheap and have found it surprisingly useful.
Dave Nelson
Use blue painters’ masking tape. That’s what it’s for. Put it on, pressing in thoroughly so the paint doesn’t leak under. Use a thick paint, again to keep it from seeping under the tape. As soon as the paint dries, remove the tape. Don’t let it sit too long. If you take it off soon enough, very little of the original paint will stick to the tape.
You just need to paint the windows, and not the walls, right?
Cover the walls with the blue tape, making sure you press around the window completely. You should see an outline of the window opening through the tape. Just trim away the part you want to paint with a BRAND NEW exacto knife blade. Emphasis on BRAND NEW. A new blade makes a better, finer edge cut, and allows less paint bleed under the tape.
Spray a very light, dry coat of the paint on the window. The light coat will help seal the edges of the tape, an help prevent paint bleed under the tape. A couple more light coats, and you should be good. Let the paint tack up real well, then remove the blue tape from the walls.
Just my [2c]
Rotor
A light coat of the brick wall color on the edge of the masking tape first will really keep the window paint from leaching under the tape.
the one question I have is: Have you installed the glass already? If you have, then masking will be a tedious job, and you’d be better off brush painting it by hand.
If you have not installed the glass yet, then any of the above methods would work.
Good luck! [:)]