Weathering Rolling Stock, a Continous thread

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TLOC

TLOC

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I purchased a ClassOneModelWorks depressed flat car from HomeShops.net. HomeShops specializes in working with model manufacturers to add private model Railroad names to the cars

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While I started weathering the car I didn’t take any notes as to what I paints I used. This is still a work in process but this is what I am shooting for the deck. A messed up deck but still being able to read in car info
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Alcomotive

Alcomotive

Grandson of an ALCO Builder
Alcomotive

Alcomotive

Grandson of an ALCO Builder
Try here and scroll down to bottom of page....select which ever may interest you...

www.sulphurinstitute.org

Publications

TSI is now making available a variety of its educational brochures relating to sulphur available to the public! These brochures cover sulphur’s role in everyday life, agricultural uses, and leading practices in industry
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TLOC

TLOC

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Alcomotive said:
Try here and scroll down to bottom of page....select which ever may interest you...

www.sulphurinstitute.org

Publications

TSI is now making available a variety of its educational brochures relating to sulphur available to the public! These brochures cover sulphur’s role in everyday life, agricultural uses, and leading practices in industry
www.sulphurinstitute.org www.sulphurinstitute.org
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Thanks James, lots of info there
 
TLOC

TLOC

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As many of you who have followed along there are a couple types of cars that really hold my weathering interest. Centerbeam or center partition cars and Pulp cars. The pulp cars I have weathered number well over 100 and the Centerbeam is in third place behind tanks cars. This is Centerbeam/partition car #51.

Still a work in process along with 3 other of its partners, but I am getting there. The center poles are next then the finishing of the deck

thanks for following along
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Lack barry

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How about anti weathering? I have 2 real, real old 2-6-0 and an 0-6-0 that is older than old. The 0-6-0 does NOT run but the 2 2-6-0's Run like butter! Smooth & quiet! I got them out of purgatory and dusted them off and ran them. The subject here is, as we all know, old coal loads as well as cheap coal loads look like week old dry black oatmeal, only less textured. So, as I was cleaning up the loads I wet my finger to rub something off. And it made the coal sparkle like, well, real coal does! Of course the spit dries up quite rapidly. Any of you folks know a treatment that lasts longer than spit. Cheers, JB
 
TLOC

TLOC

Well-Known Member
Lack barry said:
How about anti weathering? I have 2 real, real old 2-6-0 and an 0-6-0 that is older than old. The 0-6-0 does NOT run but the 2 2-6-0's Run like butter! Smooth & quiet! I got them out of purgatory and dusted them off and ran them. The subject here is, as we all know, old coal loads as well as cheap coal loads look like week old dry black oatmeal, only less textured. So, as I was cleaning up the loads I wet my finger to rub something off. And it made the coal sparkle like, well, real coal does! Of course the spit dries up quite rapidly. Any of you folks know a treatment that lasts longer than spit. Cheers, JB
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Never worked on a coal load. I am wondering what a dull cote from Testors would do to the sparkle?
 
Smudge617

Smudge617

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Lack barry said:
How about anti weathering? I have 2 real, real old 2-6-0 and an 0-6-0 that is older than old. The 0-6-0 does NOT run but the 2 2-6-0's Run like butter! Smooth & quiet! I got them out of purgatory and dusted them off and ran them. The subject here is, as we all know, old coal loads as well as cheap coal loads look like week old dry black oatmeal, only less textured. So, as I was cleaning up the loads I wet my finger to rub something off. And it made the coal sparkle like, well, real coal does! Of course the spit dries up quite rapidly. Any of you folks know a treatment that lasts longer than spit. Cheers, JB
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Give it a good clean with a toothbrush or something similar and use satin finish lacquer.
 
C&OMtnMan

C&OMtnMan

Member
Lack barry said:
How about anti weathering? I have 2 real, real old 2-6-0 and an 0-6-0 that is older than old. The 0-6-0 does NOT run but the 2 2-6-0's Run like butter! Smooth & quiet! I got them out of purgatory and dusted them off and ran them. The subject here is, as we all know, old coal loads as well as cheap coal loads look like week old dry black oatmeal, only less textured. So, as I was cleaning up the loads I wet my finger to rub something off. And it made the coal sparkle like, well, real coal does! Of course the spit dries up quite rapidly. Any of you folks know a treatment that lasts longer than spit. Cheers, JB
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Gloss clearcoat? Or gloss black in this instance?
 
C&OMtnMan

C&OMtnMan

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TLOC said:
Never worked on a coal load. I am wondering what a dull cote from Testors would do to the sparkle?
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Well if it comes from the tipple or the sorted piles, it might not have much sparkle, due to coal dust.

On the model side, Dullcote leaves it flat, does seem to mute some of the detail of the load. (experience from doing my earliest hoppers)

Any more, I remove the loads before weathering.
 
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