Does anyone know how to weather "Walthers, Kato," and "Pacific Flyer" HO Amtrak cars?

Hi, y’all! I’m new to this online community. Are there any manuals that I can find, read, and/or purchase online that will tell me how I can do this? If so, please write me back with the info. Thank you!

Hi

there, at teh top of the blck tool bar on top of this page is a “SHOP” link with a pull down menu. Select ‘books’ there is at elast ONE book, by Pelle Soeborg on weathing called “Done in a Day”:{under the “modeling and painting series” category of books}:

here is a link:

http://www.kalmbachstore.com/12458.html

There is another book by him that features weathering too:

http://www.kalmbachstore.com/12477.html

Also, go online to google, bing or your other favorite search engine and type in what you did for us here adn you will get amazing results!

PS weathering, while it CAN be different for each style of car or loco, is basically the same principles…

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Passenger equipment is fairly easy to weather. The prototype railroads kept their passenger cars looking decent, even washed them fairly often. All you have to do is avoid the plastic glossy look by painting the unpainted parts.

Start with the underside. Mask off the topsides with some wide blue painters tape. Remove the trucks, turn the car bottom side up and spray the bottom with gray auto primer (light gray or dark gray, your choice). Paint the trucks if they are unpainted. Dark gray auto primer is good for trucks of heavy weight cars. Light weight stream line equipment sometimes had the trucks painted bright aluminum. Paint the faces of the wheels, oily black for friction bearing cars, a dry light brown (dried mud color) for roller bearing cars. The roofs of heavy weight cars look nice with a coat of dark gray auto primer. Separately applied hand rails, grab irons, mail catchers and suchlike look better painted rather than left as bright shiny plastic or wire.

Yes. :slight_smile:

Google something like “weathering HO model railroads”.