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CPR Zee said:
Hey how's everyone?
It's been a busy summer for me. Sorry I haven't posted much, looks like there's lots of good stuff going on here though, nice stuff everyone!
I just picked up this recent release of the ONR SD40-2 by Bowser a couple of weeks ago.
I couldn't wait to get into it with this bad boy! I started last weekend and finished up this morning.

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First thing's first, I gave the new loco a coat of Testor's Dullcote.

I started by airbrushing the front and rear intake filter intake grills with the XF-1 and then cleaned the rears up a bit with some IPA, I thought they were maybe a little to dark... I'll touch those up later though. I then did all the panel lines on the long hood sides with Tamiya's Panel Line Paint (black).
I also played around with some 70% IPA and removed some of the ONR logo, I didn't want to go much further with that side, and just left the other side alone. That whitish chalky look from the IPA will disappear with a coat of the Dullcote.

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I then next started on roof side of the unit. I applied a light wash with the Nato Black and just straight water applied with a brush, and streaked it downwards on the sloped roof detail on both sides of the cab, I also added some small rust spots with the Burnt Umber on the cab roof and did some rusty panel door hinge and air filter grill effects also on the both long hood sides.

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I also did the nose and front pilot, and rear pilot and end panels with the black wash and did the Nato black, and Burnt Umber wash on the pilots.

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Next was to give the model another coat of the Dullcote.

For the sides I next mixed up some Tamiya XF-64 to a thin mixture using 50% IPA. I gave both sides of the long hood, trucks and fuel tank a light spray with this.
Next was to shoot the trucks with some XF-80, followed by some XF-64 and some XF-1,lightly to blend it all in together.

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Next was to lightly airbrush some diesel soot on the roof and along the long hood top edges and just into the snow shields but no further.
The last thing I airbrushed on was some road spray along the sill edges using some XF-59.
Also added some Black Panel line paint to the hand railing stanchions

I then gave the unit it's last coat of Dullcote.

Last thing to apply was some weathering powders. I generally use these in and around the truck details, steps and walkways and fuel tank. Sometimes I will apply the Black Panel Line paint to the side walkways to simulate spilled engine oil stains as I did here.

Actually the last thing I did was apply a tad of some gloss black enamel below the fuel filler cap, on the tank for spilled fuel.

That is pretty well it.

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Enjoy.
Z
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Wow, I love it!

What are you using for the soot?
 
TLOC said:
Wow, I love it!

What are you using for the soot?
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Thanks Tom... I used Tamiya XF-1 Flat Black, I'm going to guess at about 30% XF-1 to 70% of 50% IPA.
I actually was wanting to add this pic in my post but I was over the 10 file limit, but I can add it here.
Z

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The S-2 is a work in process. A heavily used but not abused local unit and owner/modeler is based in the Pacific Northwest where it is damp.
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The fading is irregular per design. With one side the conductor side not as faded as the engineer side. The rust is to illustrate that this is a work unit and basically affects just the grills, vents and truck frames. He plows ends need more work and per pictures rusting edges below the coupler but not the full panels. The credit is in the frame of the picture
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Fading was done with Tamiya white and IPA thinner in a 20% to 80% mix. I did add 2 drops of light gray to the mix.

Rust is Panzer Aces #301 light rust mixed 50/50 and applied with a brush to let it flow into the seams. The front grills it was applied and then blotted off and I like the effect.

The top portion of the unit will be worked on Wednesday. More F…ing labs today
 
TLOC said:
Good Monday morning from between tests at the Clinic

View attachment 199935View attachment 199936View attachment 199937I lightly faded this SP S-2 diesel a couple weeks ago. Saturday I worked on adding a light rust to the grills and them truck frames on the engineer side of the unit.

After the above pictures I added a light rust to railings and more rust to the front big grill set. The cab looks better in person than this picture. That will be blended better with another fade coat that will be added to the unit. I doubt this side needs any more rust but I will be blending that big grill more eveningly as it now maybe a touch too dark

View attachment 199938While there are not a ton of pictures out there James (Alcomotive) sent me some very helpful color pictures. Again a reminder I use pictures as inspiration unless a client tells me to duplicate it
View attachment 199939The picture of inspiration is credited within the frame of the picture but Railpictures.net has been very helpful in the past

The model will have a lighter fade than the dark gray in the above prototype picture but you hopefully can see where the lightly rusted grills are inspired from. The Southern Pacific lettering will be darkened up a touch. The cab roof will not be rusted anywhere near what the above picture shows

The fade is Tamiya xf-2 at about 10% to 90% thinner plus 2 drops of x-21 Flat base mixed into the mix.

The light rust is Panzer Aces by Vallejo #301 light rust 50/50 mix to tap water added with a brush. Applied and immediately blotted with a Q-tip

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

Unless the doctors immediately find something correctable I will be back at the bench on the 9/25. Meanwhile they just delivered me a jello snack.

The other inspiration in the Proto picture are the tracks. Those are perfect for my pulp and woodchip tracks…
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Beautiful work...please tell me that this is NOT an Athearn blue box.
 
TLOC said:
The S-2 is a work in process. A heavily used but not abused local unit and owner/modeler is based in the Pacific Northwest where it is damp.
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The fading is irregular per design. With one side the conductor side not as faded as the engineer side. The rust is to illustrate that this is a work unit and basically affects just the grills, vents and truck frames. He plows ends need more work and per pictures rusting edges below the coupler but not the full panels. The credit is in the frame of the picture
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Fading was done with Tamiya white and IPA thinner in a 20% to 80% mix. I did add 2 drops of light gray to the mix.

Rust is Panzer Aces #301 light rust mixed 50/50 and applied with a brush to let it flow into the seams. The front grills it was applied and then blotted off and I like the effect.

The top portion of the unit will be worked on Wednesday. More F…ing labs today
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Looks great Tom, nice fade and I really like the rust work.. looks great!
Hang in there man.

Z
 
Good afternoon.

The S-2 is closer but still a work in process

I did clear coat the unit after the last posting of pictures. I sprayed Tamiya x-86 thinned with Tamiya thinner x-20a roughly 40% thinner to the 60% clear. This was sprayed at about 18psi. I did not add any x-21 flat base to this mix the as fade and weathering is where I want it
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I did add rust to the front and rear plow panels this morning. I may need to add some texture to get the look I want but because the locomotive is based in the PNW I’m not sure the texture is needed. I will revisit this in the morning.

The plow panels are clear coated so any changes are easily made.Maybe thinning and streakier rust spots?

The roof is faded only and will be worked on with some grime
 
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