Weathering Black Locomotives

Tips for weathering locomotives.

Weathering black locomotives.

After the lusterless totally dries i work bragdon enterprise weathering powders on it. We think it really makes a model look like the real thing. Weathering black locomotives 1249 views. 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.

Use a dry brush to apply steaks to the cab roof. According to the company the weathering powders are made from real rust and other. Rust grime patched and peeling paint and faded letters. A lot light rust dust bowl brown and dark rust in various areas.

Add rust streaks to the outsides of the exhaust stacks. If you use the weathering powders carefully. Add grimy black to the exhaust stacks. 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. You can always move the weathering effect around with the brush before you add the water spray. The weathering powders require no drying or curing. I d like to weather it rather heavily since it represents an 40 year.

Posted by anonymous on saturday may 4 2002 8 57 am i have a black atlas nw c30 7. Brush paint the tanks on the bottom of the loco grimy black or flat black. A black wash should be applied with a brush to all the grills and louvers. 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 a pristine model can be intimidating but it is not impossible. I hope this lesson gives you some ideas for weathering a locomotive in about 10 minutes. Here we have a selection of photos showing some of our weathering unusually for live steam models upon locomotives. Member since april 2003.

Brushing the weathering powders on a locomotive rolling stock and buildings give instantaneous results. This creates beautiful under tones that can t be made by sticking to just black gray and white powders. Weathering can take many forms. You won t have to replace any of the colors for a long time.