Yeah had problems with paint coming off the wheels, even when done right with the airbrush, cleaned the surface, roughed the surface, primed, painted and cleared. Even with humbrol acrylic which sticks very very well to everything I've painted with it, it was a wearing/rubbing through problem on every project I have done with painted wheels not a paint adhering problem. I think it would always be ideal to find the correct colored wheels and even put them on another axle if necessary.
An airbrush is nice but can be messy and tricky to tune and a pain to clean it correctly afterwards, you can get awesome results with a paint brush as long as you thin the paint so it's a little thicker than milk (you have to do this with an airbrush anyway), and use a high quality paint brush from a hobby/craft shop (cheap brushes leave streaks). Most of mine have been hand painted by brush, always clean the surface you are painting with wax and grease remover first.
All these and more were hand painted.
Scotties coaches (not Scotty himself)
VR T & B
VR R
SR USA class
Derek
Jinty 2
An airbrush is nice but can be messy and tricky to tune and a pain to clean it correctly afterwards, you can get awesome results with a paint brush as long as you thin the paint so it's a little thicker than milk (you have to do this with an airbrush anyway), and use a high quality paint brush from a hobby/craft shop (cheap brushes leave streaks). Most of mine have been hand painted by brush, always clean the surface you are painting with wax and grease remover first.
All these and more were hand painted.
Scotties coaches (not Scotty himself)
VR T & B
VR R
SR USA class
Derek
Jinty 2
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