Painting and Weathering Using Water Based Acrylic - Rebuilding the mill by Mountains in Minutes
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Painting and weathering the Gardner Mill using water-soluble acrylic paints, latex house paint, craft paints, and hobby paints. Getting great results without using any solvent-based paints.
Many (most) people use the expression "acrylic" paint to mean water-based paints. Yet most lacquer paints are acrylic as well. So we will use the expressions "water-based" and "solvent-based" paints. Today we are painting the Gardner Brothers Mill model in 1/2' scale (1:24 scale) and weathering and highlighting the stone and woodwork.
It's important to know that these water-based paints can not mix, ON ANY LEVEL with solvent-based paints. We have purchased a second airbrush just for water-soluble paints as any acetone or lacquer thinner touching the water-based paint will attack the paint plugging up the airbrush or paint bush. So for this project, we are sticking with 100% water-based paint, even though we usually use lacquer.
Water-based paints do offer some advantages over solvent-based paints. While many people think clean-up is easier with water-based paints, generally (I think) it's not an advantage. Unless you are painting your house in which case... I digress. But it's actually easier to clean solvent-based paints out of an air brush than water-based paints. Keep in mind you should NEVER clean your water-based paint airbrush with solvents. Cross-contamination will probably happen no matter how hard you try to prevent it. There are good water-based airbrush cleaners out there.
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In every video the mill just looks better and better. Can't wait to see the people get painted. Learned some new things on weathering to try out thanks for all you do. See you Tuesday. GOD BLESS 🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Thanks 👍. Bless you too!!!
Yes the effects are great guys you just keeping the mill better and better. Thanks again.
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Thanks again Gary!!
Great vidio, love that moss on the mill, just what it needed.Thanks for the morning coffee...
your painting work , is some of the best I have seen
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Wow, thank you!😊😊😊😊🚀
Saved this for Monday evening. Good night you 2
Looks great . looking forward to seeing running trains
Nice work on the 2 roofs. Match perfect. This is the coolest!!!
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Hi. And thanks again 😊😊😊🚀
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@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Thanks!!
Great 👍👍
Having watched your and Janson Jenson's videos for years, I have found that this is actually the most difficult part of building a model. NOT hard to do, mostly, but very time consuming. Let me TRY to explain it this way, You try to create contrast, but so that you don't see any individual detail, unless you get very close. In real life we have all kinds of contrast, but we DON'T see it, because it all blends together. Creating THAT, is what is difficult. You are a master of this, along with an artistic eye. I hope that explains what I'm trying to say. The Mill looks better with every video, and made from a casting to boot. ;-)
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Hi again!! Thanks!!!! Part of the problem is what we see is so low in contrast. Photos bring out contrast. So when modeling do you try for a natural look? More photographic? What happens when you take a photo of the model? Then sunlight. Hard edged. Inside light is so soft. The shot of the trees is in sunlight. So how to get that look inside? Paint in shadows. Washes. Anyway all creative and FUN.
Great work looks fantastic as always thanks for sharing. You guys have a great weekend. You guys are always an inspiration. We just moved and want to start garden railroad at our new house.
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Thank you! You too! Do it!! Fun.
Yet another video.😊
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Thanks!
Acrylic thinner that could really be help full thank you
You are the master of weathering. Super cool work. Have you ever made the 20 mule team model from Death Valley Days?
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Nope. I have the promo model. Still in the box… I did do the Budweiser Clydesdale hitch in HO. Fun! Still have it up on the top shelf. The HO stuff shelf.
I love your Mill and would like to add a mill to my Layout, does Mountains in Minutes still make the mill?
Looks like your people figures in the scene are slightly over scale.😊
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
They are pretty close. The sliding door is only about 50” tall. The regular door is about 80”. So it’s all close to 1/2” scale.
Both the craft paint and the house paint are both acrylics. What is different between the two are the types of acrylics used and the amount of inorganic color pigment is the emulsion. The chemistry is difficult to completely understand.
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
Acrylic. It seems to be in almost all paint. But often craft paints are called acrylic, which they are, but that’s not the real definition of water based craft acrylic. 😅😅😅😅
@kenshores9900
Ай бұрын
@@ToyManTelevision The amount of titanium dioxide may be different in craft paint. The acrylic is the vehicle to hold the colors. The acrylic is actually two different monomers polymerized together in a special way that allows it to go into solution. Automotive paints have gone from lacquers and enamels to water based acrylics. They aren’t as pretty, so they spray a top coat over the base. It is clear. Basically the clear coat is a cousin to Elmer’s glue. Car wash’s destroy the acrylic clear coat. This started in the late 70’s.
@ToyManTelevision
Ай бұрын
@@kenshores9900 I must save the modern paint jobs look absolutely wonderful. For a while. Although I think the more recent cars have a better paint job, they seem like they’re going to hold up a bit longer. Cars from a few decades ago look like they have a serious case of leprosy
@kenshores9900
Ай бұрын
@@ToyManTelevision Dale: Sorry for being didactic. My first job out of college et al, was in polymer research and development.