Reply To: Prepping brass caboose

[Jerry Michels]

Ron, a friend of mine that passed away a few years ago, Virgil Young, simulated peeling paint by first painting a base color, then applying very lightly moistened oatmeal to the surface, letting it dry, then painting the top coat. Once it dried, the oatmeal can be brushed or rubbed off. It worked pretty well. The oatmeal can be left as is out of the box or ground up to a finer size. The irregular size of the flakes mimics the randomness of flaking paint.

Jerry Michels