Weathering Black Locomotives
A lot light rust dust bowl brown and dark rust in various areas.
Weathering black locomotives. According to the company the weathering powders are made from real rust and other. Add grimy black to the exhaust stacks. Brush paint the tanks on the bottom of the loco grimy black or flat black. This creates beautiful under tones that can t be made by sticking to just black gray and white powders.
Here we have a selection of photos showing some of our weathering unusually for live steam models upon locomotives. Member since april 2003. Weathering black locomotives 1249 views. 302 278 posts weathering black locomotives.
Tips for weathering locomotives. Brushing the weathering powders on a locomotive rolling stock and buildings give instantaneous results. I ve removed the ann arbor reporting marks in order to have it represent a private owned industrial locomotive. 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.
Posted by anonymous on saturday may 4 2002 8 57 am i have a black atlas nw c30 7. 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. Rust grime patched and peeling paint and faded letters. We think it really makes a model look like the real thing.
After the lusterless totally dries i work bragdon enterprise weathering powders on it. If you use the weathering powders carefully. Then i lusterless it more. Weathering a pristine model can be intimidating but it is not impossible.
There are almost as many ways to recreate the ravages of time and nature. 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. Weathering can take many forms. Add rust streaks to the outsides of the exhaust stacks.
Use a dry brush to apply steaks to the cab roof. I d like to weather it rather heavily since it represents an 40 year. A black wash should be applied with a brush to all the grills and louvers. You can always move the weathering effect around with the brush before you add the water spray.