Weathering Black Locomotives

Add grimy black to the exhaust stacks.

Weathering black locomotives.

You won t have to replace any of the colors for a long time. Tips for weathering locomotives. Weathering can take many forms. A black wash should be applied with a brush to all the grills and louvers.

Use a dry brush to apply steaks to the cab roof. 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. I hope this lesson gives you some ideas for weathering a locomotive in about 10 minutes. 302 278 posts weathering black locomotives.

You can always move the weathering effect around with the brush before you add the water spray. Here we have a selection of photos showing some of our weathering unusually for live steam models upon locomotives. If you use the weathering powders carefully. Then i lusterless it more.

Weathering black locomotives 1249 views. 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. 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.

Brushing the weathering powders on a locomotive rolling stock and buildings give instantaneous results. A lot light rust dust bowl brown and dark rust in various areas. There are almost as many ways to recreate the ravages of time and nature. Rust grime patched and peeling paint and faded letters.

We think it really makes a model look like the real thing. 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 ve removed the ann arbor reporting marks in order to have it represent a private owned industrial locomotive. The weathering powders require no drying or curing.

After the lusterless totally dries i work bragdon enterprise weathering powders on it. Weathering a pristine model can be intimidating but it is not impossible. Brush paint the tanks on the bottom of the loco grimy black or flat black. This creates beautiful under tones that can t be made by sticking to just black gray and white powders.