Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Painting an EMD GP9 diesel locomotive, Part 3 – Details and priming

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Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Painting an EMD GP9 diesel locomotive, Part 3 – Details and priming

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Hi Cody! Great video! Always a pleasure to watch your how to’s!

What would be the difference between the Vallejo Airbrush Thinner and the Thinner Medium that you use? I have always used the Airbrush Thinner, but they seem to be two different products.

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Nice prep and painting segment Cody. By the way is your practice to place the eye bolt gaps towards the rear of the loco contingent upon which headend a particular railroad runs their diesels? Some folks run their geeps long hood first? And do you blow dry the shells after washing them or just air dry them? Thanks.

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Did you also prime the interior of the cab or does that get a separate treatment later in the series?

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Nice video everyone. Looking forward to seeing the paint go on.

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Cody: Did you just let the shell air-dry after washing it?

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Good video Cody. Very efficient ensuring no paint schnibbles were left over from Part 1 of this series. The one thing you never show is the dull but all important task of cleaning the airbrush after each use which is the part I always despise!
Allan

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Very good video.

But I’d strongly suggest using a proper primer rather than Vallejo’s low adhesion Model Air paints (despite Micro-Mark’s label, that’s actually Underside Grey, not Undercoat grey, it’s intended for the grey underside colour of many Luftwaffe jets, hence the RAL 7001 designation). You will run into issues with paint adhesion, especially with masking tape lifting paint if using Model Air paints as a primer.

Vallejo makes excellent sprayable primers, or a classic choice is to use Tamiya’s XF-19 Sky Grey as a primer. Unlike the Model Air paint Tamiya’s paints adhere very well.

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Great video, everyone. You go into a lot of detail on your process and do far more than I do when re-painting my locomotives. I like your way; however, I am one guy, building a medium sized layout and would love to take the time it takes to do it your way; but, then all I would get done is loco painting and not have a layout to run it on!