Painting Track
Rusty Rails Painter®
Painting Rails, Spikes, and Weathering the Sleepers
The Rusty Rails Painter® tool is a mini paint roller.
Two styles are available! The reusable Rusty Rails Painter tool with the plated brass paint tube, and now a more economical throw away version Rusty Rails Stick Roller for smaller track layouts and touchups!
Paint at any angle or direction, speed, and even do blind rolling on the back sides of the rails!
Complete instructions are with the Rusty Rails Painter tool. Parts are always in stock. Replacement rollers are Free during 2025!
A SASE to us will get you more new rollers!
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Typical Assembly
Nut is always opposite side of flow port
O / S / HO / OO / N :
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Stainless Steel Mesh Paint Screen & O Ring :
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Use the O scale roller to weather the sleepers with Joes Weathering Dyes:
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HO / OO roller on Atlas 100:
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N scale Poron foam roller on Atlas 80. N & Z scale disc placement:
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Roller Thicknesses:
Urethane O / S- 8mm
Urethane HO / OO- 4mm
Poron MicroCell N- 2mm
Polyester Felt Disc Z- 1.5mm:
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NEW / ON Sale Now!
Red Silicone Paint Pallette
The Hobby Model Trains' paint roller tool specially designed to paint model railroad track. And it has now evolved to be designed better than ever. Now made in the USA with better tool and die work and top notch quality.
** Rusty Rails Painter® It is reusable, refillable, easy to clean, fits all our roller sizes, and has new design features:
**NEW - The flow-port is now a .005" larger and moved closer to the roller's edge. The port is crimped forward to better direct paint to the face of the roller. **A longer nickel plated paint tube has a better reach. **A washable stainless steel paint screen is now mounted inside the cap. **The parts are now Epoxy assembled vs. previous Cyanoacrylate that fell apart under 150F hot water washing.** A removable lubricated O-ring seals against leaking paint or the more viscous weathering dyes. **A softer plastic bottle for easier maneuverability, priming, better consistent flow. Air uptake/ replacement is quicker when the squeeze is relaxed.
This mini paint roller is far more efficient in painting all sides of the rails with easier coverage. Precise work on already ballasted track is easier. The only consumable is the foam roller and the paint! Wash the tool and reuse it! Washing with dish detergent and hot water is OK. The foam roller will be adversely affected by anything stronger than regular paint thinner.
Rusty Rails Painter® also works great for weathering sleepers and spikes, structures, roofing, landscape like lines on streets and crosswalks. Transparency of the wood grain on the sleepers with our Limestone or Rust colored weathering dye will look great too! Installing a wider or thinner foam roller, adding diluted paint or Joe's Custom Weathering Dyes will better get you through weathering sleepers vs any diluted paint.
Foam Rollers:
Looking at our inventory we happen to have a lot of Urethane Foams. The "minimum order" we need to buy for the special order of our required cell density with the foam for the rollers is more than we can reasonably expect to use and sell within the useable life expectancy. So the temporary PROMO here is that Replacement Rollers are FREE once you buy the tool ! All sizes are included.
Rusty Rails Painter® Rollers (listed below) available in 4 thicknesses and each can be interchanged on the same RRP Tool. The large #350109-125 foam roller does use a longer stainless steel screw on the tool equipped for the O Scale track and similar sizes. It still can be mounted on the shorter screw but is a bit more tedious. The longer screws are always available from us if you need one, just ask.
And don't forget...the top outside edge of the track rail stays rusty!
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Rusty Rails Painter® Tool - $24.95 Sold as a tool only with Extra pack of specific scale rollers at $24.95 on this page -OR- in a economical HO/OO Starter kit for $29.95 that includes a choice of one of 👉 6 prototypical paint colors 👉 Starter Kits
Rusty Rails Stick Roller - $11.95 Sold in HO roller size option only, pre-assembled with threaded cut hole in the wood for screw axel and proper adjustment. Plus a reusable, non-stick, 5" X 5" Red Silicone Paint Pallette.
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International ? / Shipping ?
Check out our Sales listing for Rusty Rails Painter on (click) ebay with likely better International discounted shipping rates!
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#350101-125 Rusty Rails Painter O/S
Includes:
Longer 1/2" Stainless #1 Phillips screw axel
5 Polyurethane foam rollers thickness 5/16" / 8 mm.
2 clear discs. 7/16" (11mm) and 3/8" (9.5mm) dia.
Plated brass paint tube 2.5mm diameter / Stainless Steel paint screen and hardware.
#350101-100 Rusty Rails Painter HO/OO
Includes:
5 Polyurethane foam rollers thickness 1/8" / 4 mm Codes 100 / 83 / 80
2 clear discs. 7/16" (11mm) and 3/8" (9.5mm) dia.
Plated brass paint tube 2.5mm diameter
Stainless Steel paint screen and hardware.
#350101- 080 Rusty Rails Painter N
Includes:
5 Poron foam rollers thickness 1/16" / 2 mm. Codes 83/ 80/ 70/ 55
Plated brass paint tube 2.5mm diameter
Stainless Steel paint screen and hardware.
2 clear discs. 7/16" (11mm) and 3/8" (9.5mm) dia.
#350101- 040 Rusty Rails Painter Z
*TIP - The 1.5mm thickness felt pad is cemented to the clear disc. Use the disc with felt below. In preference to avoiding paint bleeding below the rail you may reverse this setup.
Includes:
5 Padded Felt Discs / 7/16" (11mm) dia. x thickness 1.5 mm / Codes 70, 55, 40
Dura-Lar disc.010 x 12mm
Plated brass paint tube 2.5mm diameter
Stainless Steel paint screen and hardware.
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#350101S Rusty Rails Stick Roller 🛤 Add To Cart
5 Polyurethane foam rollers thickness 1/8" / 4 mm Codes 100 / 83 / 80
2 clear discs. 7/16" (11mm) and 3/8" (9.5mm) dia.
Red Silicone Paint Pallette
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EXTRA ROLLER PACKS IF NEEDED WITH THIS ORDER :
💿 Rusty Rails Painter & Stick Roller💿 Rollers
#350109-40 Rusty Rails Painter Foam Rollers Z 🛤 Add To Cart
* 5 Polyester Felt Disc rollers 1/32" / 1 mm thickness
#350109-80 Rusty Rails Painter Foam Rollers N 🛤 Add To Cart
* 5 Poron Micro-Cell Foam rollers 1/16" / 1.5mm thickness / Codes 83, 80, 70, 55
#350109-100 Rusty Rails Painter Foam Rollers HO/OO 🛤 Add To Cart
* 5 Polyurethane foam rollers 1/8" / 3 mm thickness / Codes 100 / 83 / 80
#350109-125 Rusty Rails Painter Foam Rollers O / S
* 5 Polyurethane foam rollers 5/16 / 8 mm thickness 🛤 Add To Cart
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