Weathering Black Locomotives

If you use the weathering powders carefully.

Weathering black locomotives.

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. A lot light rust dust bowl brown and dark rust in various areas. Member since april 2003. I ve removed the ann arbor reporting marks in order to have it represent a private owned industrial locomotive.

Weathering can take many forms. 302 278 posts weathering black locomotives. Brushing the weathering powders on a locomotive rolling stock and buildings give instantaneous results. Weathering a pristine model can be intimidating but it is not impossible.

You won t have to replace any of the colors for a long time. We think it really makes a model look like the real thing. Then i lusterless it more. Add rust streaks to the outsides of the exhaust stacks.

After the lusterless totally dries i work bragdon enterprise weathering powders on it. There are almost as many ways to recreate the ravages of time and nature. Brush paint the tanks on the bottom of the loco grimy black or flat black. Add grimy black to the exhaust stacks.

You can always move the weathering effect around with the brush before you add the water spray. I d like to weather it rather heavily since it represents an 40 year. This creates beautiful under tones that can t be made by sticking to just black gray and white powders. Posted by anonymous on saturday may 4 2002 8 57 am i have a black atlas nw c30 7.

According to the company the weathering powders are made from real rust and other. Rust grime patched and peeling paint and faded letters. Weathering black locomotives 1249 views. A black wash should be applied with a brush to all the grills and louvers.

Here we have a selection of photos showing some of our weathering unusually for live steam models upon locomotives. 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. Use a dry brush to apply steaks to the cab roof. The weathering powders require no drying or curing.