Weathering Black Locomotives

Use a dry brush to apply steaks to the cab roof.

Weathering black locomotives.

You won t have to replace any of the colors for a long time. After the lusterless totally dries i work bragdon enterprise weathering powders on it. Weathering is virtually the norm in the smaller electric model railway scales and can t understand why it doesn t occur far more in the larger models. Weathering can take many forms.

Here we have a selection of photos showing some of our weathering unusually for live steam models upon locomotives. Member since april 2003. Weathering a pristine model can be intimidating but it is not impossible. A lot light rust dust bowl brown and dark rust in various areas.

Add rust streaks to the outsides of the exhaust stacks. Tips for weathering locomotives. Posted by anonymous on saturday may 4 2002 8 57 am i have a black atlas nw c30 7. According to the company the weathering powders are made from real rust and other.

I d like to weather it rather heavily since it represents an 40 year. I hope this lesson gives you some ideas for weathering a locomotive in about 10 minutes. There are almost as many ways to recreate the ravages of time and nature. I ve removed the ann arbor reporting marks in order to have it represent a private owned industrial locomotive.

This creates beautiful under tones that can t be made by sticking to just black gray and white powders. Add grimy black to the exhaust stacks. If after the water dries you notice that things don t look quite right it s possible to scrub the paint again to eliminate any imperfections. A black wash should be applied with a brush to all the grills and louvers.

Then i lusterless it more. The weathering powders require no drying or curing. If you use the weathering powders carefully. You can always move the weathering effect around with the brush before you add the water spray.

Posted by gd891 on monday february 7 2005 12 41 pm i ve got a proto2000 s2 that was originally painted in the black ann arbor scheme. Rust grime patched and peeling paint and faded letters. Brushing the weathering powders on a locomotive rolling stock and buildings give instantaneous results. We think it really makes a model look like the real thing.