Weathering Rolling Stock, a Continous thread


AemJaY1 said:
Boomer is awesome, watching him weekly, and Dusty is the layout Queen ;)
your other mentions i will check out.

some youtubers iam watching are boylei hobby time, but hes more a diorama builder, but has some nice videos and technics of how hes coloring hes builds. Luke Towan is also a nice source but he, now she stoped uploading and i dont know if shes coming back. last upload i think 8 months ago. other than that there are some random channels that popup from time to time but i dont remember the names.

Rob arsenault on insta or facebook, i dont know if he has a youtube channel?
and soon myself hahaha, maybe iam doing a series, from noob weathering dude, to (thnx to @TLOC ) a better weatherer than many :D

cheers
Marco
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I used to watch Luke Towan before I found Boomer. Luke’s tree building videos got me hooked on building trees. He has not disappeared from YT but mainly posts behind the Patreon pay wall. I will not pay for content. I occasionally will send a “thanks” payment to the content provider but I will not do a subscription.

As for Rob Arsenault of Weather my Trains he is on Facebook but only to post his daily finished models. He does not do You Tube and replies to comments on how he does things, well he doesn’t respond. He is IMOO the absolute best weathering artist in model trains.
 
TLOC said:
Where do you get your weathering information?
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Well, I’ve tried only two of Boomer’s ideas:

1. X-21 thinned with IPA, then scraped off, as a fade. That one didn’t do it for me. That experience probably dissuaded me from watching him much, but I did recently try, and mentioned above…
2. Water-based acrylics (e.g. Vallejo) over alcohol-based acrylics. This I like.

I like techniques that JC’s Rip Track shows ( but his music dubs on his videos can be, ummm, “barf on a stick.”

Airbrush Asylum for general airbrushing guidance.

Ron’s Trains ‘N’ Things - not a weathering focused page, but he sometimes gets into scenery and structures in helpful ways.

But, I get most inspiration from exchange of ideas right here - multiple talented participants, and a copious exchange of ideas. Same goes for the other threads in the weathering, painting & detailing section here.
 
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TLOC said:
I love that line” what happens in the tunnel…”

I have some Vallejo thinner but I can’t remember If I used it after initial experimenting. Can you shoot a picture of the bottle it’s in and post it here. Thanks
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Sure. Posted this one some months back, when weathering that yellow reefer, I think:

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C&OMtnMan said:
Well, I’ve tried only two of Boomer’s ideas:

1. X-21 thinned with IPA, then scraped off, as a fade. That one didn’t do it for me. That experience probably dissuaded me from watching him much, but I did recently try, and mentioned above…
2. Water-based acrylics (e.g. Vallejo) over alcohol-based acrylics. This I like.

I like techniques that JC’s Rip Track shows ( but his music dubs on his videos can be, ummm, “barf on a stick.”

Airbrush Asylum for general airbrushing guidance.

Ron’s Trains ‘N’ Things - not a weathering focused page, but he sometimes gets into scenery and structures in helpful ways.

But, I get most inspiration from exchange of ideas right here - multiple talented participants, and a copious exchange of ideas. Same goes for the other threads in the weathering, painting & detailing section here.
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Boomer isn’t doing anything ground breaking or revolutionary. It’s the way he presents it. I still find him to be humble. He admits he has learned from others and over the years has developed his techniques that work for him. The thing I most like about Boomer is his production quality of his videos and his overall modeling philosophy.

JC’s Rip track, interesting on the music. It seems I am capable of tuning out the music but his how to start videos are excellent.

I agree about AirBrush Asylums and will add The AirBrush Garage.

Story about Boomer introducing to me the X-21 Flat Base. I watched the video and thought what a great way to fade. I went out and purchased some. I used it straight out of the bottle on a Scaletrains Rivet Counter tank car. It went on easily enough and brushed off with no issue. Then I looked at the car. Broken lines, missing detail items that were brushed off when I went to remove the X-21. Found the pieces and glued them back. Not a fun experience and thankfully I had an extra of the same car. Always practice the new stuff on an old freight car. Big lesson learned there. Now I only use Flat base X-21 mixed in with a base color for fading tank cars through the airbrush. It must though be throughly mixed and run at a high PSI

I hope the ideas, thoughts and explanation of techniques has been helpful. The 127 pages here and CambriaArea 51’s locomotive thread at 20 pages has shown folks are interested.
 


A few weeks I showed a couple Freelance covered hopper cars distributed by HomeShops.net for the Gulf & Shrimp Island. I had previously weathered them with a Tamiya fade and Vallejo Air applied as a wash for the weathering. It never felt right to my eye, so I removed most of the weathering

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Finally after a few days of just sitting drying (I forgot I put them in the dehydrator) here they are.
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Abteilung502 oils used as washes. ABT006 Burnt Umber, ABT093 Earth and ABT007 Rawn Umber individually and also blended together. The thinner for the washes was Gamsol pure Orderless Mineral Spirits.
 
Next up are a couple freelance coil cars purchased and received last week from HomeShopsLLC.net for Tim Garland’s Seaboard Central and Danny Welch’s Eagle River and Kankakee. These are units for me…
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The plan was just to shoot the pictures and put the cars into the fill-in part of my weathering schedule. They never made it back to the packaging. I planned this morning to just spray a matte finish to kill that new car sheen. Well, I did that using VMS Matte Clear Varnish and tossed it into the dehydrator finding 2 other cars I forgot about still in there!

So while the coil cars are drying I looked at the coil covers and sprayed the inside of the covers with a custom mix blend of Tamiya colors giving me a rusted coating
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I did spray some of the rust color on the underside of the coil cars a few minutes ago after seeing that the matte clear coat had dried
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The gaps in the coverage was done on purpose. I will (hopefully) in a few days come back and fill those gaps with a different color mix of grime. That will be done with the air brush instead of dabbing a paint brush in there. It’s easier for me to blend using an airbrush

The coil covers will get scratches and rust marks using straight Abteilung502 oils after 1st spraying the body of the cover with VMS Varnish HD top clear Gloss coat.
 


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