Nice work! I have used the same Milwaukee Road hopper for weathering practice, except I converted mine to a 2-bay McDonald's ("Mickey D") car first: (and hurled other forms of abuse at it). Yours is much nicer!
I have some "Dust" color paint, but I've never used it as I was not sure what it would do. Have others tried it? Can you "over-do" the dust?
Flash, I have tried using "dust color" and it has never really worked for me, instead I heavily dilute polly "earth" color in rubbing alcohol and spray it, I found it creates an effect very similar to the coloring on the Athearn pre-weathered cars that are now out, depending on how you spray it. Because of how diluted it is, it takes a lot of passes to over-do and it drys quickly to check your work. I use a $5 harbor freight airbrush and it has not been difficult to accomplish, even for me!! my best, Jan
Flash, I use acrylic artist paints for dust color. A mixture of one part burnt sienna and one part ultramarine blue and a lot of water gives a quite realistic used color. Paul
You guys are too graciuos.. Thanx for a great comments,, now my hats no longer fit.LOL Today I went out and bought some artist acryilics and some acrylic craft paint.. I am going to try the whole windsheild wiper fluid/acryilic wash thing. I think the problem is, that I try to get the car done,, instead of waiting for the washes to dry,, well maybe I should exercise paitence. Adios Wyatt
Flash- I have used very light gray chalk, very finely ground on 400 grit sandpaper which gives it pretty much the consistency of the retail weathering chalks. It looks fine, but no matter what, the heavier the application, the dustier it looks. BTW- Ace Hardware in my area carries down to 600 grit in large sheets. I got a package of each.
Havent read all the replies, (But I will), so if this is a repeat, my appologies. Looks good IMHO. However, myself being a "weather'r" But far from being a pro myself. I f I had one construstuctive critique, it would be the same that I have for my own. That is, you need to pay some attention to when you streak it, be sure that the streaking is streaking down natually. I noticed on a couple of them, the direction changed in the downward streak, something that wouldnt happen natually. But, now, after being mean, I have to say I am picky about that, because I myself have a huge problem with doing that, so I tend to notice it in other weathering jobs.. heheh.. But other than that, they look great.. ANY weathering is better than a shinny new piece of rolling stock... Kudos..
Very good!!! I am average with the weathering too and well I have only completed a few cars two or three if you count the caboose... Here is a pic I'm sure everyone has seen a few times or more on different threads... The caboose a DME Trinty 5161 and a BN PS 4750
MRL,, the BN hopper looks just right to me.. I need to come up with a way that I can weather en masse.... doing 600 cars is a daunting task. ( going crazy) lol. I am trying to concentrate on my layout in progress,,, before I tackel weathering. adios
Yes, most important! Get the layout all done, you can still run the shiny new cars weather them one at a time! Get it done!!! Scenery YAY!