Many modelers have at least one locomotive that looks like it’s traveled a million miles without ever seeing a wash or a repaint.
Here’s one of mine:
How about the rest of you? Care to show off your dirtiest, grimiest creations?
Be glad you can’t smell through a computer screen.[:D]
The loco in question is my oldest piece of HO equipment. A Maine Central ALCo, that I painted in B&M, and weathered terribly… At the moment its back in MEC paint, and I think the only thing that holds it together is gobs of super glue… In the picture below, note the MEC heritage poking out at the bottom of the cab, and on the rear windows…
http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=199001&nseq=38
Mine is a little too shiny, and doesn’t have enough faded lettering. Maybe next time around. Right now the loco is on lease to WRS which performs any necessary maintenance to the 60 year old beast…
You beat me to it Loathar [(-D]
It looks like a very friendly dog, regardless of it’s olfactory “issues”
No wash racks in mining country. My locos get washed by mother nature only.
its the left most SD40-2
Heres a few I have done.
I don’t model the Chessie era…[8D]
But that doesn’t mean the WM didn’t work for a living…
And let’s not forget our partners in grime…
Lee
Alex; Right now it just sits in the staging track…[:-^]
I guess what you call my dirtiest unit depends on whether you mean part of a unit, a whole unit, or an active unit…
Part of a unit would be the cab of a Seaboard System Alco that is abandoned near the Concord Engine Terminal…
A whole unit would be an ex-CN FP7 that sits in the yard for spare parts…
And an active unit would be my Chessie (yes Lee, Chessie is dirtiest![;)]) U23B #2306. It normally serves as the Concord Yard Switcher and the power for train 41T, the New Poland Turn. It may be bumped up from these duties when I receive my GP9M in WRS paint. (Thanks Alex!)
Although, Alex’s 70 tonner (Leased by Koester Foods for moving cars there) is also pretty dirty…
This is the first-ever HO locomotive I purchased (in Talbot’s Hobbies, San Mateo, June 2000), and the most uniformly unwashed in my fleet. It’s in its current guise as an approximate rendition of SP 2829 in 1954, with some work still to be done:
Brian
Looking good so far, keep them coming.
Two of them are, one is clean.
The reason why two are dirty is because they were involved in a house fire. The only damage is that soot (which looks like weathering to me) that’s on the models. Of course the two with soot smell like smoke, but I guess it’s prototypical for alcos to smell like smoke.
They look good to me. Dave, that’s a good job on the SD.
I eventually learned the secret to weathering… first do a lousy job of painting and decaling, then hide all the imperfections with some ‘grime’. I mix Testor’s flat black and flat brown to simulate the ‘grime’, then I lightly smear it all over the loco with a few specks of paint on a brush.
Here’s my only weathered CSX unit that I’ve photographed [so far]:
…and here’s a Conrail unit:
It looks dirtier in real life, this shot was underexposed…
This is one of my FEF-3’s. Click on the link to view it.
http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?board=HOScale;action=display;num=1220047417;start=0
Ohhh, now that’s a good filthy one.
Jeff:
Filthiest I can get, a ‘borrowed’ Colorado & Southern 2-10-2 on my Yuba River Sub. I generally weather my locos lightly (if at all), and this was an experiment with Bragdon self-adhesive chalks.
Tom[:)]