Hay seabreeze brains trust !When i grew up my folks didnt have alot of money For my first birthday My father built me and my brother a trainset. i acquired them again when the parents sold one of there properties. The trains sets were in really average condition and i have been stripping and sanding them to hopefully repaint. I would like to wrap them up as a gift refurbished and give them to my 1yr old son as a gift from my father this up-in comming christmas.

My question is
1)How far do they need to be sanded back can they be primered in this state( the black stuff is like a mill scale) I tried to sand blast them, ma compressor isnt powerful I been using paint stripper a angle grinder drill with wire brush and dremmel.
2) what paint would be better or sufficient (2pack or arcrylic) Would they hot dip galvanize it and then spray over that?
3) Which primer (theres alot of primers around like etch, super etch arcrylic primer)
4) To get into the cabins would it be better air brushing light coats or using a gun (used a gun before no probs)or just aerosol. ?
Theres about 15 carriages a house and a station Any Imput would be much appreciated!
Cheerz braintrust
! busta

spray them with etch primer , lightly re-sand , and then use automotive spray paints , you can get any colour you want from super cheap auto.
enamel paints will last best.

Point taken Knot Ill put them up on display. Gone are the days they will be sitting in the shed rusting they lasted 34 years.Hopefully now refurbished last for ever.

I got ahold of a mob in eastern states www.dna-paints.com/shop/ Not cheap but and gona take up a fair bit of time but best of doing it properly

Awesome project and worth doing. Love doing things like that.

Busta you were right about getting into the cab and so on so pressure packs with likely not work well.

As you have a compressor, I reckon get on eBay and buy a $20 ish HVLP touchup gun with a 0.8mm tip.

You can turn the fan and fluid down to about a 10mm dia spot and almost be like an airbrush, but still bomb the paint on for the outside coat.
They work just fine for stuff like this, even being cheap chinese copies I have had good results from them..... they just don't last long. Oh and most are full of oil so need a good degrease then gunwash or thinners before use.