Hoilday Projects.

[coastrider]

With the holidays here i suddenly have time to start clearing the bench of unfinished projects,
The first is a Athearn Genesis SD70 which has had a mixture of black and brown wash's applied to take the shine off it then some brown chalks applied to the fans and grills. The finish is actually matt brown although the flash from the camera makes it look gloss with a hint of purple.
The second is RPP GP60b shell resting on a P2K GP60 frame, Smoky valley handrails,DW Mu pipes etc painted with polyscale acrylics and microscale decals.
The grills were masked and painted then the whole thing got 5 coats of very very diluted black mix before a coat of dulcote. The flash has given it a purple hue ( must get some better lights for photos) but i may just give the fuel tank a little more work. So 2 down only 7 more to do..

Mike.

 

[CNR Glen]

Looks like some good work. I like the SP unit. What did you use on it's trucks?

Some advice on your camera, don't ever use the flash. The flash will wash out detail and change colors on you. Get youself a tripod to hold it steady while the shutter is open for the longer time to compensate for no flash.

 

[coastrider]

The trucks had 3 passes of box car red wash followed by 3 passes of Engine black wash then a couple of coats of matt clear lacquer then i brushed some brown weathering powder on to the trucks and blew the excess off.

i will try the tripod and longer shutter time when i next get the camera out

Mike.

 

[Airslide]

weathering experiments ;-)

i think i need to redo the decals

 

[UP2CSX]

Airslide, are you working from a prototype picture? That rust just doesn't look right. It seems way too thick on tops with almost no rust or rust streaks towards the bottom. I fthe real car looks like that, fine, but otherwise, it just doesn't look like the way a typical covered hopper rusts.

 

[Airslide]

nah, no prototype. more than anything i was practicing the stippling technique with oils and an airbrush. I realized early kind of rusted affect i was trying to achieve really occurs on the bulge on covered hoppers...although i have seen covered hoppers in pretty bad shape - rusted from top to bottom. i did this side first and started with the vertical streaks but i was trying to make them natural with thinned paint drip down the car and follow back up with darker color...didnt quite come out like i had hoped...but thats why its called practice..

 

[jbaakko]

Man, nice work!

 

[ChevelleSSguy]

Airslide. Can you share some tricks on how you created those rust spots. May not necessarily be prototypical. But your on the right track with the look. I have been wanting to learn how to do that for a while now. Stippling and artist oils huh?

 

[UP2CSX]

That other side looks a whole lot better. Like you say, just keep practicing. I do like working from prototype photos though. Even if I don't make an exact copy, it gives me a template of what the weathering should look like.

 

[Airslide]

UP2CSX: your right about working from prototypes - having a reference point is a better approach. however, im still in the technique development stage. i have tried to work from prototypes in the past but seem to make more mistakes because my skill and techniques were lacking.

CHEVELLE: no problem. basically, i created the spots with an airbrush using a really thin mix of spice brown acrylic and windex (about 80:20). then dab over the brown spots with a thicker mix of acrylic siena and windex (about 70:30). i used a q-tip for the dabbing in this step. then stipple on slightly mixed siena and umber oils. the oils should be applied last because they will give some texture and take at least 48hrs to cure. the stippling brushes worked great. from my experience should not be substituted with any other type of brush. as to not "over stipple" i got most of the excess off on a piece of scrap paper before applying it to the car. i tried this technique on scrap cars before trying it here -