Weathering Rolling Stock, a Continous thread

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Tom I've enjoyed this thread, I've gotten a few ideas to improve my weathering. Don't over do it where it becomes not fun. I myself have to take breaks now and then or watch a video to get the creativity going again or it maybe something I see in a video that someone caught railfanning and I want to recreate.
Keep doing what you enjoy and keep the pics coming. One thing we all can agree on is we love looking at each others photos.
Happy New Year!!
 
CambriaArea51 said:
Tom I've enjoyed this thread, I've gotten a few ideas to improve my weathering. Don't over do it where it becomes not fun. I myself have to take breaks now and then or watch a video to get the creativity going again or it maybe something I see in a video that someone caught railfanning and I want to recreate.
Keep doing what you enjoy and keep the pics coming. One thing we all can agree on is we love looking at each others photos.
Happy New Year!!
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Thank you and glad you’ve picked up some ideas. I know the discussions here and on your thread have been very helpful to me.

I’m not getting out completely but will not be doing as much. I will have done 72 diesels in 2024 when I finish the 2 for David (marlin39). My goal last December for 2024 was 26 diesels! I missed this year weathering completely for 11 weeks mainly due to health. I still did way to many freight cars.

Goals for diesels will be 26, for freight cars 240 and learn to say no!
 


Good evening. I’ve been in a weathering funk and since the 1st of the year I also have no energy again. But, I have a couple units to finish. They will get done!

I have no commissions for January (that was planned) which hopefully will give me time for my neglected diorama, I mean layout! I do have some local friends items to lightly weather at my leisure.

But! As you know I am a fanboy of Boomer of Boomer Diorama on YouTube. He has influenced my weathering greatly to the point almost all my commission work is done with Tamiya Arcylics using Isopropyl Alcohol as a thinner and Vallejo Air products using water as the thinner.

He recently put out a video regarding the basics of using Arcylics for weathering his way. I thought it interesting enough and being his video productions are done well it was worth posting here. The modelers who visit this and CambriaArea51’s locomotive thread are sometimes asking for step by step ideas. For that this will be a good video.

One thing about Boomer. He’s not looking to convert you to his way, he is offering up his way as just another way to weather that for him has served him well.


Be well and hopefully Wednesday (tomorrow) I will post finished
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pictures of the last car for Marlin39’s project that is now overdue.

The rust shown in the above 7 pictures was too much and has been toned down. Those are the final pictures I hope to post tomorrow
 
@TLOC

Sry i will hijack your thread again.

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So first i did prime this container
then i added the orange layer

both are added with my airbrush. so now the question. i want to weather it pretty heavy, because it will maybe be abandoned but iam not shure yet. do i have to seal it first and then add the weathering effects, or can i weather it right away with all sorts of things? what would your advice be?

thnx and sry for overtaking :)

cheers
jay
 
AemJaY1 said:
@TLOC

Sry i will hijack your thread again.

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So first i did prime this container
then i added the orange layer

both are added with my airbrush. so now the question. i want to weather it pretty heavy, because it will maybe be abandoned but iam not shure yet. do i have to seal it first and then add the weathering effects, or can i weather it right away with all sorts of things? what would your advice be?

thnx and sry for overtaking :)

cheers
jay
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I prefer to seal it no matter if you used Aryclic or oil paint. If Aryclic I’d use a matte clear. If oils I’d use a satin clear and when done weathering a matte clear

Each modeler has different ideas but those are my procedures

This is a weathering thread Jay, do not worry about asking questions, no problem…

Have fun and post the finished model
 
AemJaY1 said:
@TLOC

Sry i will hijack your thread again.

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So first i did prime this container
then i added the orange layer

both are added with my airbrush. so now the question. i want to weather it pretty heavy, because it will maybe be abandoned but iam not shure yet. do i have to seal it first and then add the weathering effects, or can i weather it right away with all sorts of things? what would your advice be?

thnx and sry for overtaking :)

cheers
jay
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Those tabs on the bottom of the axles were supposed to be removed so your trailer will set right. The axles go in the small holes with those tabs there your wheels are going to stick out beyond the trailer
 
TLOC said:
Hello fellow modelers with interests in painting and weathering. This will be my new spot. Instead of starting a new thread for each weathering project, they will be here. Pictures of rolling stock will be here. At this time I do not do locomotives.

I encourage you to give Constructive Criticism and hope you show some of YOUR work with descriptions of what you did, what you used, etc…

I am not showing any of the 51 pulpwood cars I have weathered since October, 2021. I have kept 16. As I have taken on a project for a modeler of 15 pulp wood cars with no loads. You may get sick of seeing pulp cars!

Pictures from recent past projects:
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a few gondolas
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TomO
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Great looking cars Tom.
Swal
 


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I want to thank David (marlin39) for his confidence and then extreme patience as I worked on his units. I really enjoyed spraying 2 cars with just a matte clear coat (not pictured). After it dried the only real difference was the 2 were no longer shiny. When I asked my wife for her opinion, what’d u do? I liked that because shiny she is fussy about. That’s what David wanted. Above are some of the other cars

As most of you know I am taking off until March doing any commission work. I’m prioritizing my health, my wife’s health, working on my layout and 2 friends layouts.

I will stop in though, so post away
 
TLOC said:
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I want to thank David (marlin39) for his confidence and then extreme patience as I worked on his units. I really enjoyed spraying 2 cars with just a matte clear coat (not pictured). After it dried the only real difference was the 2 were no longer shiny. When I asked my wife for her opinion, what’d u do? I liked that because shiny she is fussy about. That’s what David wanted. Above are some of the other cars

As most of you know I am taking off until March doing any commission work. I’m prioritizing my health, my wife’s health, working on my layout and 2 friends layouts.

I will stop in though, so post away
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Tom,
Your health comes first. I'm very patient and it wasn't a problem.

Here's a better photo of one of the matte coated cars (SP)

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I’m looking forward to rerun season. Well, one rerun.

I wouldn’t post about doing a staight-up repeat, but I’m going to this time.

Some months back, I posted about a nice wood N scale reefer I weathered. A yellow Atlas Borden Milk piece, and it came out nice. My mother-in-law complimented it, and requested I weather one for them for Chistmas. (I built my in-laws a small Christmas layout 8-10 years ago.) I couldn’t find a suitably appearing subject to weather as a gift. (I have very specific tastes in the reefers, and I I gravitate toward the rarer ones.) So, I ended up giving it to my mother-in-law.

Two days ago, the exact model unexpectedly showed as available on Ebay at a reasonable price, and I jumped on it:

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That’s the actual piece, not a stock photo.

I’m looking forward to it, not just from the standpoint of getting a car that I thought I wouldn’t have again, but I’m also looking forward to doing it a bit better.

This is what I did with the first one (the opposite side):

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Everything was hand-brushed on that one.

What I want to do better with this one is:

1. Mud splash not so high up
2. More areas given a dash of the light yellow fade
3. I want the dirt streaking to have a bit of gray

Going to keep the light green wash in spots to evoke some wood deterioration.

I want it to be realistic, but still have eye appeal with the colors, not be a rotting pile of grunge.
 
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C&OMtnMan said:
I’m looking forward to rerun season. Well, one rerun.

I wouldn’t post about doing a staight-up repeat, but I’m going to this time.

Some months back, I posted about a nice wood N scale reefer I weathered. A yellow Atlas Borden Milk piece, and it came out nice. My mother-in-law complimented it, and requested I weather one for them for Chistmas. (I built my in-laws a small Christmas layout 8-10 years ago.) I couldn’t find a suitably appearing subject to weather as a gift. (I have very specific tastes in the reefers, and I I gravitate toward the rarer ones.)

Two days ago, the exact model unexpected showed as available on Ebay at a reasonable price, and I jumped on it:

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That’s the actual piece, not a stock photo.

I’m looking forward to it not just from the standpoint of getting a car that I thought I wouldn’t have again, but I’m also looking forward to doing it a bit better.

This is what I did with the first one (the opposite side):

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Everything was hand-brushed on that one.

What I want to do better with this one is:

1. Mud splash not so high up
2. More areas given a dash of the light yellow fade
3. I want the dirt streaking to have a bit of gray

Going to keep the light green wash in spots to evoke some wood deterioration.

I want it to be realistic, but still have eye appeal with the colors, not be a rotting pile of grunge.
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I think the one you did is excellent, can’t wait to see what the next one ends up like.

I can tell you from my past experiences the fact you have a plan is really going to help. There is nothing tougher in scale modeling than weathering the same car multiple times, IMOO.

have fun with it
 
TLOC said:
I think the one you did is excellent, can’t wait to see what the next one ends up like.

I can tell you from my past experiences the fact you have a plan is really going to help. There is nothing tougher in scale modeling than weathering the same car multiple times, IMOO.

have fun with it
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Thank you!

Frankly, you are quite right on the matter of repetition. Of course I don’t model in the quantities you do, but there is some amount of tedium when I crank out quantities of black hoppers and red box cars.

I had wondered if you had thought the same about it. Now, I know!

What I find harder than the doing of repetitive cars, is bringing myself to write about it; I’m afraid of boring the forum with my limited subject matter.

It’s good to be experimenting with different materials, techniques, and effects; reduces the sensation of “same old, same old.”
 


C&OMtnMan said:
Thank you!

Frankly, you are quite right on the matter of repetition. Of course I don’t model in the quantities you do, but there is some amount of tedium when I crank out quantities of black hoppers and red box cars.

I had wondered if you had thought the same about it. Now, I know!

What I find harder than the doing of repetitive cars, is bringing myself to write about it; I’m afraid of boring the forum with my limited subject matter.

It’s good to be experimenting with different materials, techniques, and effects; reduces the sensation of “same old, same old.”
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During Covid, my weathering sales and everyone else’s were crazy. The yellow TBOX and RBOX cars were hot. I was doing speculating, meaning I’d purchase cars to weather and hope to sell. I’d buy cars from an online dealer of which there were only maybe 5 different numbers. But the cars other than # were the same. Because of the Trump stimulus money and continued by Biden the sales were brisk and guys were buying 3 or 4 TBOX cars at once. Trying to weather each a bit differently was hard. Finally I gave up. I’d grouped just the same # cars together and weathered them up in groups of 5 to ten. When they were finished I took the photos and boxed them up. On to the next #, weathered them basically all the same, repeat. I had to do the same for tank cars and reefers. Those have been since Covid my 3 hottest sales. This year coil cars look like they will be a best seller. Autoracks are always good but they get graffiti and the weathering seems secondary. For commission sales I use Arcylic paints. For my own stuff or friends I will use oils and Pan Pastels
 
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