Weathering Rolling Stock, a Continous thread

[Rico]

Worked a bit on the gondolas. Sprayed the inside with tie brown, the bottom with grimy black, and a coat of rust and grimy black. Time to dry.

That’s something I’ve been putting off, maybe this’ll get me going!

 

[TLOC]

My experience is that dull coating cars done with powders reduces the effect quite a bit. Since I don't usually handle cars much after they go on the layout, sealing isn't necessary. My experience only.

Absolutely spraying in my experiences reduces the effect of chalks, powders or Pan Pastels. Because I churn (sell off) my fleet so often I had to spray because they do get handled. I have found that the VMS clear Matt varnish and the Army Painter Matt clear are nowhere near as aggressive as was Testors Dull Cote in the spray can. But they still reduce the effect, just not as much IMO. I have heard good things about Vallejo’s matte clear and now do have a bottle but will experiment down the road.

 

[TLOC]

Worked a bit on the gondolas. Sprayed the inside with tie brown, the bottom with grimy black, and a coat of rust and grimy black. Time to dry.View attachment 164823View attachment 164824View attachment 164825

Looking good Tom.

Do you have a formula or paint you use for grimy black and also for the tie brown?

 

[Jaz avalley]

My experience is that dull coating cars done with powders reduces the effect quite a bit. Since I don't usually handle cars much after they go on the layout, sealing isn't necessary. My experience only.

I agreem but I think if you sell stuff it is likely a good insurance

 

[CambriaArea51]

Looking good Tom.

Do you have a formula or paint you use for grimy black and also for the tie brown?

Thanks, both colors are the Microlux from Micro scale. First time with the tie brown but have used the grimy black a few times and very pleased with them. I use them straight out of the bottle.

 

[TLOC]

I agreem but I think if you sell stuff it is likely a good insurance

Yep, you have. Not good when someone buys a unit and says there are finger prints

 

[TLOC]

Thanks, both colors are the Microlux from Micro scale. First time with the tie brown but have used the grimy black a few times and very pleased with them. I use them straight out of the bottle.

Thanks. I need to do some mixing

 

[TLOC]

Good afternoon.

Time to show the errors of my ways. Gone only 12 days and I forget how to do things.

1. clean car yep check
2. Fade the car with tamiya, yep check
3. let car dry…maybe I rushed this
4. apply Vallejo chocolate black 60-40 mix water to paint…NOT 40 water to 60 paint
5. spray x-21 base coat, ok that worked
6. inspect after drying
7. never apply tamiya Arcylic over Vallejo because the alcohol does work well with Vallejo

Fixable but it shouldn’t have happened.

I will spray one car with 99% Isopropyl Alcohol to strip the car and start over. I think I have enough 99% but it didn’t help I left the cap loose on the bottle.

Back later with some successes

 

[TLOC]

These are done and client approved

 

[Smudge617]

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These are done and client approved

Very nicely done Tom, can't fault the finished cars, great work

 

[TLOC]

These are done

out the door with this one

packaged up waiting for $

Not everything has to be real heavy weathering

 

[TLOC]

This one is for me. Going to apply decal graffiti and tags on one side. A couple custom drawn tags and a graffiti piece by me.

this one is for a client. The fade and the roof and sides are approved.

Graffiti on one side will be custom hand painted by me. Minus the fade but this is the actual car. The photo is credited on the edge. I might do this after a beer or 3 and I am a light weight when it comes to booze even beer. Terry thinks I’m nuts but I gotta do this. Many of my modern era clients want custom graffiti. I can do it

 

[TLOC]

Finally! These went out the door. Light to medium weathered.

The client wanted no tags and no graffiti. Said make it look like it’s been on the tracks 3 years, but vary each one.

The publicity shot that I will keep

 

[Smudge617]

Finally! These went out the door. Light to medium weathered.
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The client wanted no tags and no graffiti. Said make it look like it’s been on the tracks 3 years, but vary each one.
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The publicity shot that I will keep

Like those refers, I may well ask for a few similar cars, but definately few months down the line, my wallets still in recovery

 

[TLOC]

On the bench

Except for the black messed up tank cars these are not duplicate pictures. They maybe the same car reporting marks and numbers but they are different cars.

except for the 2 TILX messed up tank cars these were all started Monday morning.

 

[TLOC]

Very nicely done Tom, can't fault the finished cars, great work

Thank you. It’s been fun. No cars tonight or tomorrow

 

[TLOC]

Like those refers, I may well ask for a few similar cars, but definately few months down the line, my wallets still in recovery

You know me well enough, any time you are ready. I understand the recovering wallet. Good thing the boss was a good guy even though the pump I’m sure was worth 3 or 4 weathered pieces!

No problem weathering them. It’s finding the cars now.

The Walthers Mainline series 25,000 gallon tank cars got hot all of a sudden. I stopped looking Sunday night but those cars with shipping are $40 each now. I just got 6 ScaleTrain Rivet Counter white 31,000 gallon tank cars with shipping at $48+ each. Fantastic details with suggested retail at $49.99 plus $6 shipping it‘s getting crazy. So a decent deal at 8 dollars off. I purchased the 6 because being only a $8 difference from the Walthers cars is a decent though expensive overall value.

James (Alcomotive) will love this! Atlas Centerbeam cars are on sale at Lombardhobby.com. for $36 and I spent too much to get free shipping. I have been waiting for Rapido Centerbeams and have a mixed pack of 6 coming In the 4th quarter of 2023, hopefully. Every now and then James sends me info on Centerbeam sales for Walthers. I think the Atlas Center partition cars are superb, I had and weathered lots of the Walthers . So between 6 Centerbeams, 6 acid tank cars and 6 slurry cars, I got free shipping! I love free shipping…

 

[CambriaArea51]

I have a few of these outside water meter reader parts that we don't use anymore and they were going to toss out. The copper coils make for nice loads, however I can't seem to find the right tone for steel (steel coil load). These are painted in True Color gunmetal blue/gray.

 

[migalyto]

They actually don't look bad, but wouldn't they be more of a silver/galvanized color?

What kind of a wire load were you after?

 

[migalyto]

What color was used for the splatter on the reefers? Did you use the brush flick method?

hopefully that's the right term for it.