can anyone tell me what the black powder in the box is please thanks!!!
-jake
Probably nothing more than powdered pastel chalk. The chalks are available at most art supply stores. You turn them into powder by rubbing them on some coarse sand paper and collecting up the dust. You can also mix various colors to create your own “custom” powders.
Mark.
thanks
=jake
It’s probably either a “weathering powder” from someplace like Bragdon Enterprises (www.bragdonent.com) or plain old sooty-colored chalk from a craft shop, ground to a fine powder.
If the label on the box says Acme Explosives that should provide a satisfactory answer to your question!
That looks like the boxes Bragdon uses for their weathering powders.
Could be just some plain old carbon black too! I’ve used that in the past to do some weathering with. that along with some cigar or cigarrete ashes. Seems to work pretty good if you want the effect of something really dirty, streaky, muddy.
Black copier toner works great too. That stuff will stick to anything!
The Port Kelsey Railroad has been dismantled, but there is a website you can go to, www.port-kelsey.com/ . At the end of his photo essay on dismantling the layout there is a place to make comments. That’s the only way I know to contact the owner about your question.
Bragdon Enterprises makes a pure powder with it’s own adhesive. NOT blocks of chalk.
Bighead- Nice steam locomotive. Where did you get such a fine looking steamer? Also, who made that steamer? Thanks
James