TT scale trains and models

Starting new "batch"

Another example:

Another example, completed during Covid.
Initial Painting
Welcome to Spencer Chemical SPENSOL SCJX 1016
Another photo, tried to eliminate some of the lighting glare.
Last photo, with a tree for reference.

Used Gold Coast PT-003 trucks, Gold Coast brake wheel, Precision Scale PS 48274 tank car washout plugs, Gold Model N scale #160-23 placards, end steps from 0.030 brass wire. PVM / Elmer McKay decals. MTL 1015 couplers. Added approximately 0.17 oz. to the center sill, total car weight is 1.16 oz. (it's always difficult to add sufficient weight to open frame type cars).

Tried Rust Oleum Black spray paint in a can. Worked OK, perhaps a little heavy.

Truck Mounting: Insert in the Joma bolster is a 2mm thread. Used a M2 x 4mm stainless steel screw, turning the head to 2.4mm. Bored the Gold Coast truck bolster hole to 0.079 (approximately 2mm).

Yeah I think the spray can paint is a bit on the thick side. But a nice looking car.

Agree the paint on the Spencer Chemical (Spensol) tank car is a little on the thick side. It is common knowledge that the pigment used in the spray cans is not as fine as that provided by the hobby paint manufacturers, and that one could never obtain the quality of finish with a spray can with the quality of a finish obtained with an airbrush. Floquil (currently out of production) years ago would advertise about the fineness of the pigments in its hobby paints. The boys at Model Railroader have done several projects recently using spray cans (Rust Oleum model 2X?) and I decided to give it a try. The airbrush is one of the most inefficient tools available to use, one spends much more time preparing the paint, and cleaning the equipment afterward than actually spraying the model. The car looks fine when displayed at a normal "distance" on the layout or when operated in a train.

The camera is very good at pointing out all of the details of the car, whether good or bad.
Still haven't figured out the correct ways to "light" the subject, to be able to clearly view the details and eliminate the shadows. The photos were taken from a distance of approximately 9 inches, using the telescoping and wide-angle features of the camera.

Why does the tank have number 1016 and the underframe number 1029?
I use spray paint for my models, it is spray paint for automotive use. I could get even Pennsy's Green Locomotive Enamel in spray (also known as PRR Brunswick Green). :)

"The airbrush is one of the most inefficient tools available to use, one spends much more time preparing the paint, and cleaning the equipment afterward than actually spraying the model."

This. When I was still a teenager and obsessed with building plastic models, I saved up money and bought an airbrush and air compressor. After the first few uses the excitement was gone amd replaced with sadness and annoyance

As much as I hate the cleaning of my airbrush, there is no way I could have painted that tank car adequately with a brush.

And I think I should always remember the end steps and the brake wheel.