Rob, Carried away ????? Naww Thats looks real! Nice work! Sadly, I bet it was hard to weather over that nice white, and bright red paint! I know how that feels, I have trouble getting myself to do that on customer work in the shop! The paint looks so neat and clean and then to weather it... It takes some mind of matter for me to do it... But that sure looks great! Keep up the good work!
Hi rob, I think it looks great. I've never cared for white locos, such as Soo and Lehigh Valley. I think they require the type weathering you've applied to look good. Yours look awesome, nice work. Gary
I saw set of CSX engines go by all with white roofs, and 3 days later came back through all dark, grimey grey.
Thanks guys - thought you would like to see the other side. I'm planning to live with it for a little while and see how it goes. I can strip back some of the weathering where I don't like it, but it is starting to grow on me.
There are always a handful of grubby engines around, except maybe SF/BNSF. Somewhere on one of my videos is a SOO SDxx (prob 40ish) in really bad shape - I made a mental note of it for a weathering example - although it was more rust and road dirt than soot I think. You can always claim this one ran a through service on SP
Got a little carried away with the grimy black on a P2K SD60... Yes you did!......Is that bad?.....No way! I've seen SP locos that make this one look clean!! Just make sure you don't weather them all this heavy! 1 or 2 really scummy ones make really interesting 'conversation pieces'. When you're asked how did it get so dirty just say, 'The crew wouldn't tell me'!! 2slim
I agree. The occasional heavily weathered locomotive isn't such a bad thing. But over the years, I've learned a few things about weathering. For instance, I used to weather models in a pretty sterile environment - the paint booth. After I realized that they looked overdone on the layout, I began to see that it was the colors from the layout reflecting off the models and coloring them further so that they looked overdone. Once I realized that, I built a diorama and started weathering models on it. I got overspray all over it, but it was a snap to repaint and recover in ground foam, etc. Now, I don't have a layout anymore, so I don't weather anything. But as soon as I build another layout, I'll start weathering again. On a side note, lighter colored locomotives are the hardest to weather and seem to look best when you used tints of the base color to dirty them up. Also, when possible, use prototype photos as a guide. I remember a site dedicated to SOO locomotives that really helped me out last time I painted one. If anyone is interested, here is a link to my webshots album (I've never posted a link to this site before, so here goes): http://community.webshots.com/user/ryanstinaemma At this album you can find an example of a heavily weathered SD45-2 and an SD40-2 that I got a little carried away with on some dirty streaks. RC
Nice work RC. There are two Soo Line Photo sites on line: Graham Stockfeld's http://www.starnet.com.au/soors27/ And Todd Taylor's: http://www.toddtaylor.com/sooline/
Both of these were the sites I used for information about the SD40B unit. However, I found myself on the Todd Taylor site more often than not. Many of the photos I have used now wear the Keith Meacham copyright caption, where before when I saved them to my hard drive they didn't have that caption. Some photos, in fact, were clearly of the same subject at the same time, but from slightly different angles... Anyway, thanks for those links! And thanks for the compliment about my models. I hope to get some more "finished" stuff up there soon, but that won't happen until my daughter Emma is 18 (she's 24 days old now rc
There is nothing wrong with that weathering. You always see a few grimey units on every railroad. While not grimey, I have seen some very faded BNSF units, both the red and silver warbonnets and the heritage II pumpkins. I believe the culprit was a setting on a wash rack. I have also seen mismatched battery boxes on some GE units. I have seen red battery boxes on the orange pumpkins and conrail blue boxes on CSX units. Anyway that is a good job on the SOO line units. I agree with others, it seems to go against the grain to weather a nice looking locomotive.
Looks good from here. You really ought to have a mixed bag of clean and *ahem* not clean. Heck, I have at least one unit that looks like a refugee from SP!
I read about your "accident" on the "Model Railroading makes me grumpy" site. No offence, but I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I'm glad to see that it turned out ok. IMHO I think it looks really good Over the years I have seen a lot of SOO units weathered much heavier than yours.
Here's a not so dirty SD40-2 with the still very diry 6026 behind it. How bout that for DCC - consisting an Athearn with a P2K - smooth as silk Oops - better fix that stanchion
Rob, that is an awesome shot! I love it! Do you have a side view of that so that we could better compare the clean and dirty loco? Happy railroading! Russ The Hoffman Vally Railroad
Rob, The model looks excellent especially the level of detail. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
