Weathering Rolling Stock, a Continous thread

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TLOC said:
I would loved to have figured a way to say it was done to replicate something, but my mind just is not that imaginative.

The cotton fibers are gone and I will revisit this car upon returning from vacation travels around the 16th. I really liked where this car was before I found the fibers.
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You could get a 3-D print of Wil E. Coyote have him SPLAT on the side of the car.... right next to s roadrunner shaped hole.
 
TomO I think your hard on your self, frankly I looked at the wagon and I think if you put it up as a finished item and did not advertise your personal angst no one would have been any the wiser. I know you you won’t leave it lol, but sometimes walking away and looking at something later makes you think yeah actually it works despite not what I intended
 


As for the roadrunner idea.that is now fixed in my mind…..I wonder if I have a space on my wall
sorry for off topic photos
 

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Jaz avalley said:
TomO I think your hard on your self, frankly I looked at the wagon and I think if you put it up as a finished item and did not advertise your personal angst no one would have been any the wiser. I know you you won’t leave it lol, but sometimes walking away and looking at something later makes you think yeah actually it works despite not what I intended
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JazA, if it was for keeping on my layout I might have left it. But the goal on this one was to sell it. That part is messed up but it’s fixable with much more effort than I wanted. I generally (rarely) do not rush things any more but this one I should have put on the side for another time. Now it’s aside because I rushed. It will be back.

thank you
 


Well, interesting turn of events. Sold one of my 3 remaining yellow TBOX cars on Facebook yesterday. Got the PayPal payment and I notified the buyer it was packaged and would go to the post office on Monday. Response back was thanks what else have you got. I LOVE when I see that statement. It is almost always a sale.

Sent him a flurry of pictures and he asked if there wasn’t anything heavier weathered. JazA, we can pass on Wiley Coyote smacking the yellow TBOX car side I messed up on trying to clean those fibers up. He loved it. Along with 4 other items it is packaged up.

You never know.

I will be shutdown but will look in until I return from the travels on June 16. Feel free as always about posting your weathering projects, comments and constructive criticisms on weathered freight cars
 
TLOC said:
Well, interesting turn of events. Sold one of my 3 remaining yellow TBOX cars on Facebook yesterday. Got the PayPal payment and I notified the buyer it was packaged and would go to the post office on Monday. Response back was thanks what else have you got. I LOVE when I see that statement. It is almost always a sale.

Sent him a flurry of pictures and he asked if there wasn’t anything heavier weathered. JazA, we can pass on Wiley Coyote smacking the yellow TBOX car side I messed up on trying to clean those fibers up. He loved it. Along with 4 other items it is packaged up.

You never know.

I will be shutdown but will look in until I return from the travels on June 16. Feel free as always about posting your weathering projects, comments and constructive criticisms on weathered freight cars
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I did say although you felt gutted,that I thought it was still a great piece, smug eye roll.
 
TLOC said:
Thanks, he was looking for beat up. I don’t do beat up but he approved what I had and the customer much of the time is right.

We still need to work on sizing the coyote, thanks
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No problem I need a vertical and horizontal limit because then I can work it so that it is sized to work, although you can easily adjust on screen :)
I often draw on a pad, then use tracing paper to copy to finished item, as rubbing out mistakes only really works on paper.
 
Until I know the sizes I’ll show a technique that can be used easily
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tracing paper and a not sharp pencil, and tracing paper folded
i first traced splatt
then turned 90 degrees and traced a battered coyote- although by bending the jaw line in pencil drawing the nose looks like the jaw so I would not repeat that but keep the standard stick out jaw line,
this makes battered ears important
the yellow eyes will then be important even at this small size
FYI at this small size do not get upset if a feature goes wrong, let it dry and repaint to background and repeat, and if paint is thicker it’s a 3D representation.
if nervous try on a piece of plastic white first,
once I have the sizes off you I’ll d a proper on, I’ll go on plastic as foam takes more patience because texture makes it harder, also on plastic you have one major advantage.
foam=freehand
plastic on the opposite side of the tracing paper with a blunt 2b-6b pencil scribble black then back on good side hold against car and retrace drawing, making transferring is so much easier, make sure you give the scribble at the back a good thickness to aid transfer
 


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