I wasn’t paying attention when I was spraying my alcohol based scenic wash (alcohol with India ink). It wasn’t until I came back an hour later to drybrush the highlights. I had two locomotives in the background when I sprayed the wash, now they have whitish spots on them. Can anything be done, short of breaking out the airbrush and repainting them?
Alcohol will cause spotting on Dullcote. Re-spray with Dullcote and the spots should disappear if they were caused solely by the alcohol. Before doing this, try to remove any of the india ink if it splattered too (you might need more alcohol to do that, but again the white spotting caused by that will go away once the dullcote is resprayed).
Marlon, apparently the affected loco/ rolling stock was coated w/ Dullcoat. Alcohol will do this, I actually will use this technique for some weathering. If you “re-coat” them w/ the dullcoat the have/ spotting disappears. I learned this by accident when cleaning wheels on a couple dullcoated F units. I had wet alcohol on my hands and got that spotting you observe. It just happened to look good and added to the heavy weathering and just dabbed on a bit more. Looked like very faded B&O enchantment blue.
You guys are my new heroes! I resprayed with clean (untinted) alcohol, then resprayed with Dullcote. Thanks for the advice.
After respraying with clean alcohol; still wet in places.
After drying.
After respraying with Dullcote.
Works like a charm…And you now can see how it can be helpful for certain type of weathering.
Yes, I can. It emulates a heavily weathered locomotive nicely. I bet if dribbled down the side of a locomotive, it would make great hard water stains! In fact, I have an old Bachmann 4-8-4 that I’m thinking about trying it out on.