Hi!

I’ve got a few locomotives that need to be painted so that I can post the pictures on Loco for Locos.....

Its common Vermont Railway colors, Red body and Black roof.  My thought is to paint (airbrush) the red first then mask off for the black.  I’m interested in any thoughts and working procedures for achieving a good crisp color demarcation like the Atlas in the picture below.

Probably the result of staying up too late:

I had a few wheel sets to paint.  Rather than remove the wheels from their trucks, I thought there might be an easy way to spin the wheelset while holding a loaded paintbrush to the wheel.

I took a practice hockey puck, and drilled a hole in its center for a press fit on the shaft of a Switchmaster stall motor switch machine.  The Switchmaster was connected to a variable DC power supply.  The contraption is strapped to an L-shaped bracket made from scrap plywood.

Is there a "masking putty" made for masking off small areas on plastic models? I have quite a few built-up N-scale Kato apartment buildings with lots of small windows that I would like to spray-paint. The glazing appears glued on and doesn't seem to easily pop out (maybe they do, I was just afraid of breaking it). I suppose I could use small squares of Tamiya masking tape, but I thought someone made a malleable masking putty of some sort. Thanks!