Do you have a method of randomizing rust/dirt patterns on rolling stock from different areas of the USA so that one does not look too much like another?
I really don’t. I normally make a rust bucket, or just some rust, or a dirty car. I believe the only time one really would be dusty is like in the plain’s. Unlike a rusty one in a rain soaked area. I normally do what I think look’s good.
I have to agree with Robby here…But!
Here on the CCRY we have iron ore mining and some of the ballast along any right of way is jig-rock (reject from the mining process) and so a few of my cars have that iron oxide look to the lower portion where the dust rolls up.
Mostly I just randomly whether with where splash and dust would accumulate. As far as rust goes…it’s everywhere!
I have three different rust powder availible, light, medium and heavy rusting. What I dont know is how would a moderately used rolling stock accumulate it? I would think it might be heavy around the bottoms of the doors and lighter near the roof but am not certain.
Any weatherer worth his rust would pretty much tell you that the more you study prototype cars the better you’ll understand patterns, colors etc. The are no rules when it comes to weathering, but study the prototype and practice, practice and then practice some more. Then look at more proto pictures…
Rust patterns? Like these?
(my St mary still in the works)
Rust is a lovely thing. It happens in so many ways and forms. Beautiful to look at. Anyone who follows me knows I love the rustbuckets.
My stuff comes from proto photos. May not be of the exact same car, but is from a real source.
Figure how to replicate various types of rusting. Experiment with various mediums. oils, tempera, acrylics, etc.
She’s a beauty!
Chris