another car project
I picked up three Train line Sinclair tank cars from the Walther's flier .
They would not disassemble easily so I toot the axles and couplers off, unhooked the hand rails and moved them out of position, so the tank can be painted with the hand rails out of the way. This will leave a little shadow of silver on the little platform by the turret , but that will probably get painted yellow later.
The body was silver, and the lettering was black. I thought I might have some coverage issue with the hunter green spray paint, so after the axles were out I masked the truck journals and spray painted the entire car with two coats of flat black, before giving them their final coat of spray paint , hunter green, which I have an acrilic paint that is a very close match, that can be use to touch up and counter paint around the lettering, as well as painting the parrot on the emblem.
To turn them into Parrot Oil cars, they get a white oval, and the yellow lettering . I started out using very fine paint brushes, but on some of Tyler's projects he has used wooden Tooth picks. I tried the tooth picks and really liked the control, I got lettering with them. the top photo shows my lettering with a brush, and the lower one shows the lettering with a tooth pick. I have gone back and re worked the first round of lettering with a tooth pick counter painting ( touching up with green, to clean up the lettering as much as possible ).
Next I will start on the parrot emblem, which starts with a green oval in the lower 2/3rds of the white oval, then I work in the head, beak and wing details, I'll try to demonstrate the process. I have done so many parrot emblems on tank cars , oil trucks , gas stations , storage tanks, and tow trucks I have the system rather formalized. I will outline the procedure for doing the emblem in the next post.
Bill Nelson