Weathering Black Locomotives

Add grimy black to the exhaust stacks.

Weathering black locomotives.

Posted by anonymous on saturday may 4 2002 8 57 am i have a black atlas nw c30 7. Add rust streaks to the outsides of the exhaust stacks. There are almost as many ways to recreate the ravages of time and nature. 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.

I hope this lesson gives you some ideas for weathering a locomotive in about 10 minutes. 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. Brushing the weathering powders on a locomotive rolling stock and buildings give instantaneous results.

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 black locomotives 1249 views. You can always move the weathering effect around with the brush before you add the water spray. After the lusterless totally dries i work bragdon enterprise weathering powders on it.

302 278 posts weathering black locomotives. Weathering can take many forms. Weathering a pristine model can be intimidating but it is not impossible. Then i lusterless it more.

I d like to weather it rather heavily since it represents an 40 year. Tips for weathering locomotives. A lot light rust dust bowl brown and dark rust in various areas. We think it really makes a model look like the real thing.

Brush paint the tanks on the bottom of the loco grimy black or flat black. Rust grime patched and peeling paint and faded letters. This creates beautiful under tones that can t be made by sticking to just black gray and white powders. If you use the weathering powders carefully.

A black wash should be applied with a brush to all the grills and louvers. According to the company the weathering powders are made from real rust and other. Here we have a selection of photos showing some of our weathering unusually for live steam models upon locomotives. Use a dry brush to apply steaks to the cab roof.