Weathering Black Locomotives

Tips for weathering locomotives.

Weathering black locomotives.

I hope this lesson gives you some ideas for weathering a locomotive in about 10 minutes. Add grimy black to the exhaust stacks. Rust grime patched and peeling paint and faded letters. Then i lusterless it more.

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. After the lusterless totally dries i work bragdon enterprise weathering powders on it. The weathering powders require no drying or curing.

Weathering a pristine model can be intimidating but it is not impossible. I d like to weather it rather heavily since it represents an 40 year. 302 278 posts weathering black locomotives. There are almost as many ways to recreate the ravages of time and nature.

Here we have a selection of photos showing some of our weathering unusually for live steam models upon locomotives. Brush paint the tanks on the bottom of the loco grimy black or flat black. Weathering can take many forms. Posted by anonymous on saturday may 4 2002 8 57 am i have a black atlas nw c30 7.

This creates beautiful under tones that can t be made by sticking to just black gray and white powders. I ve removed the ann arbor reporting marks in order to have it represent a private owned industrial locomotive. We think it really makes a model look like the real thing. According to the company the weathering powders are made from real rust and other.

A lot light rust dust bowl brown and dark rust in various areas. Brushing the weathering powders on a locomotive rolling stock and buildings give instantaneous results. If you use the weathering powders carefully. Use a dry brush to apply steaks to the cab roof.

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 black locomotives 1249 views. You won t have to replace any of the colors for a long time. 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.