Weekly Foto Phun 10/10-10/16

mooreway

New Member
Great pictures this week everyone. I have enjoyed them.

Train Nut -It was great to see the building kits assembled. Great Job.. I am working on a roofing solution you will probably like. I will let you know how it works out.

As for Jesso's "pin striping" a few months back I read a post here on the gauge about window mullions. The person was using pin striping tape to make the mullions. ( sorry I couldn't find the post.)

Anyway I ordered some in several widths from 1/64" to 1/4" wide. That is what we used on Jesso's loco. The ebay store link is
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http://stores.ebay.com/Grafstick-Tape-And-Label I have in the past cut tape to width like Wayne suggests, however I have to say this ended up being alot faster.
 

TruckLover

Mack CH613 & 53' Trailer
Josh, most tape "loses its grip" before too long, and I think that electrical tape applied flat (as opposed to wrapped around a wire) will fail, too. Why not use masking tape to mask the road for application of an actual painted stripe. You can make broad curves with the tape as it comes, or trim it into narrower strips for really tight curves and corners.

Wayne

Thanks for the tip Wayne, i think i may just paint lines for now on then :thumb:

Although, i might try some of the pinstripe tapes that mooreway posted in that link also....
 

TruckLover

Mack CH613 & 53' Trailer
what width would be good for road stripes tho? 1/64. 1/32. 1/16, or 1/8"?

Im talking about the stripes that divide lanes (white stripes) and the stripes that divide lanes going opposite directions (yellow stripes)
 

doctorwayne

Active Member
I'd guess that the 1/16" would be the closest: in HO scale that's just under 6" - I think that may be undersize for most present-day roads, though, but the 1/8" would scale out to almost 1', which I think is too wide.

Wayne
 

TruckLover

Mack CH613 & 53' Trailer
I'd guess that the 1/16" would be the closest: in HO scale that's just under 6" - I think that may be undersize for most present-day roads, though, but the 1/8" would scale out to almost 1', which I think is too wide.

Wayne

Thanks Wayne :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
 

CCT70

Member
Now that is a useful bit of information Wayne :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Hmmmmmm, this gives me an idea, get some yellow and white Electrical Tape and cut road and lane markings out of them :mrgreen: :mrgreen:. Ive tried other stuff that i bought from hobby shops (cant recall the MRF's name, but i used them on my CAT Rental Module) and it sticks for a day or so and then peels up in some spots, this is after i have completly wiped down the area and let it dry for the best and most ideal sticking surface lol. They just dont work, and for $8.00 a sheet, you think they would :eek:

Im going to try the Electrical Tape thing out using Wayne's tip :thumb: :mrgreen:

Hey Josh, in the past I just made a stencil out of recipe cards, cutting them with a steel ruler and a fresh X-acto #11 blade cutting stencils for dashed lines, and straight lines. I would *very lightly* mark dashed lines with a white colored pencil on my roads (very faint) using a ruler and then hold the stencil with one hand on the marks and spray it with eithe ryellow or white stencil spray paint. It's better than regular Krylon and dries faster and is made to stencil carboard boxes, so it goes on really nice and light and doesn't run. I have used it on plaster roads and sandpaper roads. I also tried using very fine grip tape that I had leftover from applying it to the back bumper of a truck. (anti-skid, really fine grain black weathered with chalk).

I mean, how better to represent paint than paint? sign1
 

TruckLover

Mack CH613 & 53' Trailer
Hey Josh, in the past I just made a stencil out of recipe cards, cutting them with a steel ruler and a fresh X-acto #11 blade cutting stencils for dashed lines, and straight lines. I would *very lightly* mark dashed lines with a white colored pencil on my roads (very faint) using a ruler and then hold the stencil with one hand on the marks and spray it with eithe ryellow or white stencil spray paint. It's better than regular Krylon and dries faster and is made to stencil carboard boxes, so it goes on really nice and light and doesn't run. I have used it on plaster roads and sandpaper roads. I also tried using very fine grip tape that I had leftover from applying it to the back bumper of a truck. (anti-skid, really fine grain black weathered with chalk).

I mean, how better to represent paint than paint? sign1

Thanks Tom

Ive seen that stencil spray paint before at Michaels i think, ill have to look again and pick some yellow and white up :mrgreen:

But how do you do the curves with the stencil?
 

IandOFan71

New Member
Chessie System SD20-2 #7700 pulls hard on a string of cars in Logan Yard as Coal Extra #4167 prepares to depart for the coal fields with a long string of empties.
 

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CCT70

Member
Thanks Tom

Ive seen that stencil spray paint before at Michaels i think, ill have to look again and pick some yellow and white up :mrgreen:

But how do you do the curves with the stencil?

I use a protractor to cut custom curves in the cards for each particular road.
 
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