Loco resprays and detailing

[Truffles]

Actually I would say £75 is very cheap. Once you take away materials, cost of paint, varnish, transfers etc etc etc as well as 23% tax that leaves around a £40 (that's probably on the high side) profit margin. Even going on a £10 per hour workrate do you honestly expect a quality respray for 4 hours work? It takes me well over that amount of time just to prep a model let alone spray one.

[EtchedPixels]

I doubt many N scale respray people make enough if just doing that to even pay tax!

There is a reason there are very few N scale respray folk and everyone does O gauge.

However you ought to be able to do a loco an hour to reasonable standard without much weathering as a business and by being smart about how you batch work.

Alan

[michael]

I'll second what Allan said. I stopped doing resprays because there was so little money to be made.

However you ought to be able to do a loco an hour to reasonable standard without much weathering as a business and by being smart about how you batch work.

Its all in the planning, I have 5 or 6 things on the go at once and for example, do all the yellow warning pannels at once, saves a lot of time.

[Newportnobby]

Can I suggest if you can't 'talk nicely' to each other then just don't talk?
The forum is not the place for sniping at one another regardless of who started what and when.
If anyone persists, the topic will just be locked.

Thank you