2025-2026 Winter Challenge Interlocking Tower Build

[Zephyrus52246]

Mixed the Polly Scale with water, 50/50 or so with a couple of drops of airbrush Flo Aid.  did two coats.  Forgot to mention, I didn't leave on the carrier sheet so I could paint all the edges. Only spilled a little paint on myself.  

I have a new Grex Airbrush which the sales guy at the Narrow Gauge Convention stated didn't really need a "total break down cleaning" very often.  We'll see if it works.  

They came out OK.

Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

I also put a coat of the Depot Buff on the siding.  Used a wide brush and occasionally dipped the tip of the brush in water to more evenly spread the paint.  They look a little rougher than the picture shows and may need a second coat.  I'll compare them to the station and see.  

Unfortunately, I was worried the Roof Brown wasn't dark enough and the trim piece shows this to be the case.  I'll see if I have a darker brown in the Vallejo set.  I must have used a different brown on the station, or maybe this brown is lighter than the original Floquil solvent paint.  

Jeff

[Larry C]

Jeff looks like you're off to a good start. Hope the railing aren't as fragile as they look.

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

Very nice spray job and window construction.

Tom

[Rick]

Jeff, glad you were able to get the windows together.
How do you like the airbrush?
Hope you find a darker brown.

[friscomike]

Howdy Jeff,

I concur with the peel-n-stick stuff.  It's always a challenge. Hope you like the airbrush. You might be able to darken the paint with pigments.

Have fun,
mike

[PRR Modeler]

Jeff chocolate brown is a good trim color with buff. Good progress so far.

[Zephyrus52246]

Larry, they do look very fragile, I'm sure I'll manage to break one somewhere along the line. 

Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks, Tom.  The airbrushing went well, except for the color issue.  I'm more concerned with the window installation in the siding.  There's not a lot of contact point for attaching them.  We'll see how it goes. 

Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Rick, the airbrush worked great.  It's a GREX model.  it has a pistol grip trigger instead of one on top like my Iwata.  It's much easier to control the paint flow.  We'll see how it works today as I didn't do a "tear down" cleaning after using it yesterday. 

Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Howdy, Mike.

I think I'll just overpaint the trim instead of trying to use pigments.  I may not have a good color match and usually end up making a mess with them, though I could try the pigment/alcohol "painting" method. 

Jeff

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks for watching, Curt.  I have several dark browns here with the Vallejo paints.  Chocolate brown is one of them, hopefully a closer match.

Jeff

[elwoodblues]

Jeff,

I never had much luck with the "peel & stick" over time so I always add a bit of thin ACC to reinforce the glue joint.  The build is coming along nicely, hope you get the colour issue figured out easily.

[GPdemayo]

I put this one together about 16 years ago Jeff and was happy with the results.

Have fun and i'll be looking in.....

[Mark Dalrymple]

Nice progress, Jeff.

I'm watching with interest.

Cheers, Mark.