Weathering Rolling Stock, a Continous thread

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How did you do the fade coat ?

Gary, I use Tamiya X21 flat base to fade any color car. IMO it works pretty good. I put one coat on with a brush wait 2-3 hours and with a dry brush, brush it off. It dries to a chalky finish and since it has texture I brush it off but I am told you don’t have to. I have not experimented leaving it on and painting over it. Brushing it off works fine but it is tedious.

One of the coil covers x-21 flat base painted on and drying

Mostly brushed off Forest Products car

Tamiya can be purchased anywhere I am told even my LHS but not at decent prices. I buy all my paints and most of my varnishes for matte and gloss at Scalehobbist.com. In USD.

 

[BigGRacing]

Interesting, never seen this done before, I might move forward doing this eventually.

 

[AirbrushNo5]

I have been thinking about trying the Tamiya X21 flat base to mix things up…

 

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Interesting, never seen this done before, I might move forward doing this eventually.

I have been thinking about trying the Tamiya X21 flat base to mix things up…

I strongly recommend YOU TUBE video master BOOMERDIORAMA for his weathering techniques. Check the playlist on his page under weathering. He is great at explaining and demonstrating this fade using the Tamiya x-21 base

I am not a painting mixologist and I am terrible at matching colors. But Dansrailroad2011 is another very good but talkative weathering master on You Tube and young. He mixes a color similar to the car’s original color to make it seem faded. I have tried but can’t get the hang of it.
After a couple hours to dry, then to brush it off

This is after brushing off the dried x-21 base

 

[BigGRacing]

First time ever seeing that done! Very interesting for sure.

 

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First time ever seeing that done! Very interesting for sure.

It does lighten the color, any color using the x-21 base from Tamiya.

I was using 70% Isopropyl Alcohol for my fading but that was a process of many applications. Using the 91% or the 99% Isopropyl Alcohol caused the lettering to come off so 70% was the safest.

 

[AirbrushNo5]

I have been watching Boomer and Dan on YouTube for a while…
Dan was the inspiration for me starting weathering…
Tamiya Flat White heavily diluted with XF20A is a good fading starter on that’s best on Red Yellow and Orange cars…
I find it works to a lesser degree on Blue and Green…
As far as colour matching, I find that once the car has been faded, a homemade approximate is less critical..it can go lighter (again base colour dependant) mixed with White or Grey..

 

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A better picture to show the fade after the brush off

I have been watching Boomer and Dan on YouTube for a while…
Dan was the inspiration for me starting weathering…
Tamiya Flat White heavily diluted with XF20A is a good fading starter on that’s best on Red Yellow and Orange cars…
I find it works to a lesser degree on Blue and Green…
As far as colour matching, I find that once the car has been faded, a homemade approximate is less critical..it can go lighter (again base colour dependant) mixed with White or Grey..

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I like this very much. It is subtle but definitely there. I like the streaks too.

Thanks for sharing

 

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Good afternoon. It’s hot and humid in Wisconsin and a good day for being at the painting bench. Some cars completed

I am very happy with this one done with Vallejo Air hand brushed on as an aryclic wash. This is a Tangent car from HomeShopsLLC.

not sure about this one, another Tangent car from HomeShopLLC.

I really liked this one

until I took the picture. I may go back and strip the weathering and re-weather it with Pan Pastels instead of Arcylics. I believe it is an Accurail car and this car when I decide if it’s done or not will have a few tags added.

CONSTRUCTIVE criticism please.

edit: on the ATSF covered hopper, I believe this is a bit better then the above picture. Those center panels bothered me even though they were close to the prototypes picture I used. A few cotton swabs , 91% Isopropyl Alcohol and the blending brush. Good enough for the fleet. It has been hit with VMS’s matte varnish

enjoy the day

 

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Almost 10PM and the weather is still 90% + humidity at 83f degrees feeling though like 93 per the Weatherchannel app.

I have been in and out of the trainroom since 9 this morning minus a quick but not cheap grocery run.

I started on these a week or so back, just fading!

next up for 1 of them was a second fading of the roof and the first body fade. I use Tamiya x-21 base thinned about 50/50 and HAND BRUSHED on.

When dry the chalkiness of the base paint should be brushed off. I did that and then applied another fade base to lighten the orange somemore

After a light spray on the roof of Tamiya Hull Red thinned 70% isopropyl Alcohol to 30% paint I let it dry. Then a touch of rare umber extra dark Pan Pastel brushed down the middle of the roof and blended. Then a layer of Burnt Sienna Cora Dark brushed on both sides of the middle and everything blended.

I will let it sit overnight to see if I still like it in the morning. I then will hit it with a spray of the VMS matte varnish and after that dries move to the sides of the car.

The other car will be done with oils

 

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Hi again, it’s a wet Sunday morning and I am in the train room.

Finished and used Pan Pastels with

a light spray of VMS matte varnish to seal it off

 

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Here are the weekends weathering projects

The 2 cars showing the underside were done with pan pastel and then hit with a light spray of VMS matte varnish. Maybe the sides tomorrow

Not pictured is the coil car. The coil hoods didn’t fade enough for me and the car itself was done for my first time with oils Friday night and it’s still tacky

Finally, here is the painting bench about as empty as it gets except at clean up everything time

enjoy the evening

 

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Question to those viewers that breeze by but don’t often comment or not at all. That’s great but…

When you get a new or previously new piece of rolling stock delivered to the layout what is the first thing you do with it?

1. nothing place it on the layout
2. put it through a testing procedure
3. add a coating of a Matt varnish to dull the shine and be done with it
4.other

This is not a poll but those 4 things are possible actions you might do. Let me know. I received some models today and I opened the boxes and pulled the models out. Looked them over for obvious broken details, found none and returned each of them to the box and onto a shelf till I am ready to dirty them up. Thanks in advance

 

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I took a break from weathering any rolling stock today. Finally at 10PM after a day and a 1/2 in the dehydrator I remembered I put coil car in there because the oil paint wasn’t dry yet. It is now!

While this car needs more work I wanted to see if I could see some of the rust marks made with the oils in a photo.

the model, not bad. Hoods need more work, car looks good enough! But something isn’t right

the real car, ok a similar the car with a different number

the model from a greater distance. Holey … I forgot to dirty up the trucks and wheels

good night!

 

[PRR Modeler]

Tom,

I put on metal wheels and kadee couplers if needed. Give it a coat of A&I. Paint the wheels, weather the trucks (powder) and the other weathering depends on the look I want.

 

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Tom,

I put on metal wheels and kadee couplers if needed. Give it a coat of A&I. Paint the wheels, weather the trucks (powder) and the other weathering depends on the look I want.

Thank you Curt. I tend to let them sit in the box

 

[BigGRacing]

Question to those viewers that breeze by but don’t often comment or not at all. That’s great but…

When you get a new or previously new piece of rolling stock delivered to the layout what is the first thing you do with it?

1. nothing place it on the layout
2. put it through a testing procedure
3. add a coating of a Matt varnish to dull the shine and be done with it
4.other

This is not a poll but those 4 things are possible actions you might do. Let me know. I received some models today and I opened the boxes and pulled the models out. Looked them over for obvious broken details, found none and returned each of them to the box and onto a shelf till I am ready to dirty them up. Thanks in advance

Why did you buy them if you are not using them? Collection…lol

 

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Why did you buy them if you are not using them? Collection…lol

No I am not a collector, but there is nothing wrong with that. My SIL is a great guy but he buys and collects (never a seal broken on the package) wrestling action figures. He usually buys 2 and puts one in his collection and another to be sold. That’s not me!

I buy freight cars to be used on the layout and fit a need. Of the now 74 cars I have, they fit a need or a purpose on the layout. If that need changes those cars usually get sold. I have 2 carbon black cars from Scaletrains that I purchased because I thought I would create an industry for them, but that’s not happening. There is no market for those cars so I still have them. I just am slow getting them on the layout. I first change the the couplers to Kadee #148 no matter what they come with unless of course they are a Kadee #. Change the wheels to Walthers Proto steel if they are not already a steel wheelset. Add weight to at least 1oz per inch of car. Then it goes on the layout until it’s weathering time. Once a car is weathered it goes and stays on the layout but occasionally sold if the need changes.

I am just looking to see what others do

 

[BigGRacing]

Some day maybe but as a noob, and where I spend my money going out for nice meals, I have to be budget minded a little bit. I have learned from some here that I am only going to buy what will likely go on my layout. A few more turnouts are still the top priority for me. I am still finalizing my track plan ….lol….I am very slow at it.

 

[RCH]

I don't have a layout per se, but I have Free-mo modules. So whenever I get the chance to set up with other Free-mo folks I have a layout for a weekend or a bit more. Depending on the size of the layout and the particular modules that make it up I'll grab a few trains to run. But in between setups my models stay in storage boxes, unless I've got them out to work on them. When my daughters are finished with college and moved on with their lives that's probably when I'll focus on building an actual layout and the cars and locomotives I've collected over the years will have a home.