Cement Truck Weathering article?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hi All,

I’m looking for an article from MRR that covered weathering a cement truck. I can’t locate it in the model train magazine index. If you remember what issue this was in, please reply and let me know.

Thanks,

John

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I found an article about weathering a cement hopper. It was on page 70 of the March 2009 issue.

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Thanks. The one I am looking for was on an Athearn cement truck.

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You sure that was Model Railroader? I remember an article on weathering a pickup truck and a bulldozer with dust and ground goop in MR awhile back, but nothing like an Athearn Cement mixer truck (Cement railcars, yes, there was at least one as mentioned before)

Perhaps Railroad Model Craftsman (although it sounds more like something Mainline Modeler would have run when it was still being published). Model Railroading News, maybe?

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Cement comes in a bag…Concrete comes in a truck!! Just a little Concrete Finisher humor!! I do Concrete Foundations so I couldn’t resist…

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As a former mixer truck driver, I can assure you that our management team was on us almost daily to keep our trucks clean…I mean really clean. They didn’t want our customers seeing a dirty truck when we arrived at their jobsite. They also came up with the brilliant idea to have the drivers wear white shirts for our uniform. I learned very quickly to always wash out my chutes downwind from where my truck was parked.

We washed the trucks weekly with an acid based solution that would eat any film of dried cement powder from the outside of the drum. I would suggest very minimal weathering on your model…

Don Z.

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I had a friend who lived in Phoenix. He had some family visiting from Minnesota.

“Hey Todd, do you call it SEE-ment or suh-MENT?”

“We call it concrete…”