New Paint…

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AirbrushNo5

AirbrushNo5

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Well not really anything new…

I decided to get some newer tubes of Winsor & Newton oils to see if they perform better than my 40 plus year old tubes of W&N
I bought some new brushes and Turpenoid as well…
As Dr Smith of Lost in Space fame said… “Oh the pain…the pain.”

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I use it for dirt washes…
Put a small blob of the oil paint in a palette, a washed out yogurt cup…whatever works for you…
Add some thinner - I use blue label Turpenoid
With a decent brush apply the thinned wash to the car
It’s usually dry within an hour

Alternately you can apply the oil paint to the car, but keep in mind a minimal amount of oil paint goes a long way…
Remove the oil paint with the Turpenoid…
Before and After pics…

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Thanks…
Minimal application… basically you are applying thinner tinted with oil…that speeds up the drying process
You can additionally wick off the linseed oil in the paint by putting the tiny blob on cardboard before using and wait an hour or so..
But I don’t do this anymore
 


Thanks…
yup…. the dirt on the sills of the Rock gondola and BAR boxcar is airbrushed…
It is a dilute mix of Tamiya paint…NATO Brown, NATO Black and Flat Red in in roughly a 45/45/10 ratio..
It’s pretty easy to apply…I usually hold a white card under the frame, behind the stirrups and in front of the trucks and zip the airbrush along it aiming for the card rather than the car…
You can do it under the roof as well…

This method took a while to evolve… when I first started weathering ( BN and SF examples ) I was too heavy handed…


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Well I really only find the SF plug door a bit heavy. Everyone knows, there's no standard weathering level on the prototype. This autumn's work was the first spraying I've done in 20 years, and the setup was a bit hasty to say the least, I was holding the model in my hands, sitting in a deck chair on a somewhat windy day! So I wasn't finessing with things like cards and the like. So the sill dirt was done with one quick pass from the bottom. The remainder did go all over the trucks but it's a similar shade so you don't notice that much. Crucially, I just put too much, especially on the ND2 loco. I really do need to make some card masks, although it's unlikely that any spraying will be done until spring. I tried to get as many models sprayed as possible, so I can hack away on the rest of the finishing over the winter.

I've probably seen that CP gon thousands of times on the road, and they actually do look very beat up like that. If you can start with an undec you can even hammer out bulges on the panels, which is an obvious spotting feature. Thanks for sharing.
 
An egg carton is a handy stand for holding your subjects at an angle…
If you add more thinner to the paint mix and lower the psi, it won’t build up so fast..
 
AirbrushNo5 said:
Thanks…
yup…. the dirt on the sills of the Rock gondola and BAR boxcar is airbrushed…
It is a dilute mix of Tamiya paint…NATO Brown, NATO Black and Flat Red in in roughly a 45/45/10 ratio..
It’s pretty easy to apply…I usually hold a white card under the frame, behind the stirrups and in front of the trucks and zip the airbrush along it aiming for the card rather than the car…
You can do it under the roof as well…

This method took a while to evolve… when I first started weathering ( BN and SF examples ) I was too heavy handed…


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Man you do some incredible work!:)
 
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