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I am not motivated to weather my locos or rolling stock, though I usually do lightly weather the structures. I do weather the trucks on my freight cars, however, as I dislike the shiny plastic look. Never say never but for now that is my balance.
I really want to, but I’m chicken!
I have some that are weathered and some not weathered. To me it is kind of like an artist looking at a piece of canvas, you have to be in the right mood and have a vision.
I weatherize everything!
Sometimes it’s just a light wash, sometimes I go off and make fresh paint look 40 years old.
Yep, this is me [:$]
I weather most rolling stock.
I have a couple of Kato locos I haven weathered yet. The CN SD70I is a Genesis from the late 90’s, so I wasn’t hesitant.
Mike.
I would never weather my locomotives and rolling stock.
There is one exception for one railroad I want to do it too. A fictional railroad I made over six years called SBSO set in up-to-date modern era. Graffiti covered walls, locomotive, rolling stock. Heavy weather roads, cars signs, polls, etc. A few new decorated clean freight cars with a new logo.
A problem with it was to modern. I would need to replace almost every freight car (around 20) every 3-5 years. It wasn’t worth it to continue.
Ahhh, another member of the flock!
I really like weathering effects when they are done properly, but when the weathering isn’t done well it really turns me off. I don’t have an issue with the degree of the weathering. Light weathering can be done badly and heavy weathering can be done quite well.
When weathering gets towards the top of my list I will start with things like soot stains from the exhaust stacks and a light dusting of road grime along the trucks and frames.
I wish weathering was like my face. It weathers itself quite nicely in just a couple of days and I don’t have to do anything at all!! The transistion to gray hair has been exceptionally realistic!![swg][(-D][(-D][+o(]
And NO, the accumulation of room dust is not weathering!!
Cheers!!
Dave
Most of my diesels get the light black wash treatment to remove the shiny look. Steamers get repainted with a warm black finish. All trucks get repainted… couplers too, with a bit of rust. I practiced on old Tyco stuff. Ruined a few… A few passenger locos will remain pristine.
Simon
I weather everything, most of it lightly.
Sometimes I get good results, sometimes not quite as good.
Someday I might get good enough at it, and then I can go back and add heavier weathering to previous projects.
-Kevin
Think I caught the weathering bug after seeing Malcolm Furlow’s San Juan Central layout in the pages of MRR mag and ‘Dirt Dippin’ my first boxcar.
Regards, Peter
I do not weather rolling stock.
Most modelers tend to overweather. I prefer subtle weathering, and have in the past paid a pro painter friend to do it for me, but none of my current rolling stock is weathered. Actually the dead flat finishes on some of the rolling stock already appear faded and weathered compared to prototype photos.
Given that the era I model is BN rainbow, whether rolling stock is weathered depends. If it’s BN green, it doesn’t as that is new for the era. Prior freight cars get weathered as seen by (or inspired by) prototype pictures. I probably don’t weather my prototype engines enough but it works for me. My protolanced equipment doesn’t get weathered at all as that is new paint as well.
I weather some of each, but most of my locomotives and rolling stock are pristine. I expect to change that over time once I have my layout mostly completed.
I am not keen to do weathering unless the item ‘looks like plastic’.
I do have a small number of locomotives professionally weathered, but reall prefer them ‘clean’.
David
Funny thing. I don’t consider something actually mine…an emotional tie like personal ownership…until I put my personal stink on it.
Until then, its just the factory’s product that I took out of circulation and put on my shelf. Maybe even for years.
Only when I add my personal touch does it feel like its part of the family.
Yes, I weather equipment.
Yeah, I don’t weather either but it seems that my black IC locomotives really need something to bring out the details. Dark colors really seem to hide the detail without some sort of graying or weathering to bring it out. I’m just too afraid of ruining an expensive locomotive or one that would be hard to replace. If I ever get the the “metal of courage” from the Great Wizard of OZ to try such a thing, I think my benchmark would be Dr Wayne, on the photos of his steam locomotives the details just seem to “pop” and even the ones that would normally be hard to see and it’s never over done.
Ralph
I’ve seen a lot of weathering jobs that look bad to me, so that makes me cautious, assuming I even had the time. My layout construction is putting most other modeling things at the bottom of the to-do list. If I don’t have a layout to run trains … they’re only sitting in boxes which ain’t no good.