Hiatus from weathering cars… OVER

[AirbrushNo5]

I have been busy the last few months… travelling…some home reno…travelling…basement flood…travelling…
Anyway…the biggest obstacle to picking up the brushes is…picking up the brushes…
I started weathering this Ontario Northland gondola this week…

Before and in progress pics

 

[C&OMtnMan]

I like the valve handwheel in the scrap load

 

[Rico]

Huge improvement, nice!
I’ve been putting this off as well, hope the basement is okay?

 

[migalyto]

That looks fantastic!

Well done!

 

[AirbrushNo5]

Thanks…

Basement ok… I had to remove a rooms worth of carpet and underpad….basically the victim of record rainfalls and a 70 year-old house…now just the concrete floor now and I’m happy with that

The handwheels I believe came from a German 3.7 cm flak gun… I have a lot of armour and aircraft plastic kits that I like to make scrap loads from..

 

[bnsf971]

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[AirbrushNo5]

Still more to do on 5069/5077…flat coat..rust…wheels…

 

[AirbrushNo5]

Wheels and truck painted / grimed… rust pigments scrubbed into the gondola interiors..
I did some rust dots on the exteriors with micron pens… I had a bunch of brown/orange colours I bought last year..but they had all dried up except for the Sepia colour…

 

[C&OMtnMan]

The handwheels I believe came from a German 3.7 cm flak gun… I have a lot of armour and aircraft plastic kits that I like to make scrap loads from..

Ahh. Yeah, the crank on the handwheel I assumed was for a “knocker,” a handwheel with intentional play in it, to allow some momentum to build up until things slam together; good for valves that need a little grunt to get going. In the facilities I worked in, few valves had knockers.

I don’t know why, but now the castle door scene of “Young Frankenstein” comes to mind.