Hi all,
[ This is my 2nd attempt at posting a reply. I spent 40 minutes composing the original one, then I accidentally closed the browser and lost everything...
ARRRRGGH! 
I hope I can remember everything that I typed. ]
Steve - interesting specimen, wonder what it sounds like - did you by any chance get a video?
Bob - interesting 'star' effect with the loco's headlight. About that couple standing beside the damsel on the tracks - are they friend or foe? Inquiring minds want to know...
METRPLS - those Athearn ethanol tankers are gorgeous; if I wasn't putting my kids thru college [$$$], I'd have bought a whole train of them myself.
Smoke - that's a primo rust job if I ever seen one!
John - great job on that scratchbuilt container jib, it looks almost as if it operates. But I guess if that was the case you'd have posted a
video, eh?
Tom - the Yuba Sub's looking good, I suppose those are
pre-roof job shots?
Surprise, surprise: Even
I have something to share this week! A few months ago, Jerome [wheeler1963] posted a photo of a worn-out looking Family Lines 4-bay ACF Centerflo. That thing kinda grew on me, so I 'painted' some of my own decals on Testors film and painted over an old bluebox centerflow that was originally in Dow paint. This is my first attempt at 'serious' weathering, i.e. replicating the rust and grunge patterns on a prototype, and I still have a
loooong way to go. I used Bragdon powders; the rust splotches looked OK when I first applied them, but when I sprayed on a protective layer of dullcoat, they changed from an oxide reddish tint to
dark brown.
Not only that, but I also forgot to apply 'dirt' to some of the semi-hidden inside surfaces, and
naturally these are plainly visible in the photograph. Oh well.
Here's a link to a
proto shot:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures\28762\CSXT_201582.JPG
I still plan on applying a light gray wash to fade the logos and lettering, but I don't want to replicate all the random paint patches and splashes.
