Painting KD Logging Cars??

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I tried painting a KD Logging car by brush with Tamiya Color acrylic (nato black) and it dried too fast and covered small details.

Any suggestions??? Paint type? Color?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi dale_ churchill

What are the kits made of?

An alternative paint could be Citadel chaos black in a spray can available from your local Games workshop Store

Give a light coat at a time and allowed to dry between coats.

Brush painting doesn’t work too well on model rolling stock unless you are a professional painter

I find the Citadel paints easier to use than the Tamiya ones, they also seem to thin down better than the Tamiya ones

Don’t let the weird names of the colours put you off they have some useful colours.

regards John

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I humbly disagree with that statement. I brush painted my tichy crane (styrene), and it came out pretty well. Not something that MR would put into print, but it doesn’t look half bad. The trick was to paint small sections with as little paint as possible (IE one side of the car or the boom assembly or something) and then leave it alone for about an hour so the paint dried. Only problems I ran into were where the paint would dissolve(?) again in a few places as I painted a second coat, mostly on the large flat places.

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I use Floquil roof brown and dry brush on light weathering. I also lightly sprinkle the horizontal surfaces with tiny wood shavings to simulate bark and sawdust. In some cases however, this bark, dirt and sawdust was washed off by high pressure water nozzles prior the cars being returned to the woods.

Peter Smith, Memphis.

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Just use kmart brand black flat in a spray can, works so well that I only brake out the airbrush for engines, then use some weathering chalks and a quick spray of dull coat and your good to go!!!

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Our logging cars are made of die cast zinc, uncolored and untreated. I’ve painted them with just about every kind of paint I could get my hands on, both spray and brush. I found petroleum base paint work just a bit better than water based but I had great results with both. My best ones were spray painted with light spray weathering then various other hand painted details. Then depending on the model I added chunks and chips, dirt, bark, and whatever else I could imagine might get caught on a logging car.

Sam Clarke

Kadee Quality Products

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I have never got good results (as I judge them) from brush painting large areas of styrene. For the best results use either an airbrush or spraycans. Painting and weathering wood with a brush is a different story in that the results are great.

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Any chance of a pic. also since you work for kadee are you going to go to the rtr on you logging stuff like every one else seams to be (by the way I have many of your disconects and many of your logging cabooses, at least three or four in the original all wood cab, last your customer service is the best as I once was missing a part and no problem getting it!!!)

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Here Here! Thank you very much for your stellar customer service. Even though my first attempt at assembly was a little frustrating, some time, patience, and your stellar customer service convinced me to buy 6 more cars for my logging section of my layout. Thank you. Your kits are heads and shoulders above than the next best brand on the market.

BTW: Here’s mine: It looks brand new because I haven’t weathered it yet. I brush painted the wood sections with Railroad tie brown. I figured creo stained wood on the cars made sense. Everything else that was metal was painted polyscale tarnished black. (Please forgive the shiny logs. I haven’t dull coated them yet.)

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rrebell,

Unfortunately, the only photos I can get is the logging cars on our webs site at the following link http://www.kadee.com/htmbord/page31.htm. The cars and logs have been painted several times in different ways then one day we decided to use these for our web site. Most of my others are scattered about either sold, given away, boxed, or in various stages of re-working. You see I do not model railroad at home since “I have to do this at work all day”.

I seriously doubt we’ll ever offer our logging kits as RTR models, unless we could sell them for $75 to $100 each to cover the labor to assemble them. They were never designed as RTR models where our other freight cars were designed from the beginning to be RTR.

Thanks for your comments we do appreciate them.

Sam Clarke

Kadee Quality Products

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Thanks for the tips … I am going to give it a try !!!