Is there a black paint available as flat and totally reflectionless
as the paint on the roof of a Walthers Seaboard Budd passenger car?
This stuff looks like carbon or lampblack, and Polyscale Engine
Black looks quite shiny next to it.
Hal
The small plastic bottles of acrylic paint in the arts and crafts section at Walmart are cheap and their black is absolutely flat.
If you can get it blackboard black is not just matt but “dead” black… it does often have fine grit in it… but that’s okay for tarmac (unweathered).
Testors dullcoat does a good job of matting most colours… when I can get it.
Testors flat black is pretty darned black in my book. Floquil engine black too.
Floequil engine black. If it needs to be slightly lighter add a touch of weathered black. Unless you want to run your equipment- pristine, most roofs will show signs of weathering in a very short time. Have you considered weathering your rolling stock? It doesn’t have to be grunged and beat to death- slight drybrushing of the sideframes and undercarriage and a couple of light passes w/ an airbrush will make an out of the box piece look fantastic.
Bob K.
Thanks for suggestions. I’ll check out Walmart’s and the others.
Probably should avoid paint which has a gritty additive, since
I have found using silver or aluminum paint in my airbru***ended to
clog it up pretty bad.
I got a set of Walthers cars at a show for cheap, but one had a
messed up roof - looked like someone repainted it by hand. The
blacks I had here to try just don’t have the carbon black appearance,
even after Dullcote.
Hal