salt weathering

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Has anyone attempted to do the salt weathering from the article in Fine scale modeler?

I am about to do that today, was wondering if anyone did and found anything that needed to be done that might have been left out in the article

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i’ll take it that no one has done this[#dots], well i guess i’ll be the first, i will post the results later[sigh]

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This is not a live chat forum. You must allow a couple of days for people to read and respond. Many of us don’t read the magazine you’re referring to and have no idea what salt weathering means.

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Never heard of the mag. But my best guess would be to use chalk of flour and put it around the trucks. I don’t know?

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i am sorry to upset you i looked at my views and thought to myself that this has not been done before by anyone as i did not have any responses,[:(]

i have posted before and gotten responses within five minutes,

and i guess it was wrong of me to assume this magazine, Fine Scale Modeler would be a staple in the reading of model railroaders,

Chalk is an excellent idea, and i have used it often, this technique is new, atleast to me.I was just wondering if anyone had tried it.

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Just curious. What are you trying to model? Are you doing hoppers coming and going from a salt mine? Or trying to show winter road salt/grime on your cars? I’ve never heard anyone talk about salt weathering before.

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Start with painting your object with the colour you want too see after you paint the top coat

next mist with water and coat, sprinkle the desired amount of salt ,amounts will veri, practice makes perfect

hopefully thing will turn out similar to this, this is the first time and the will be some difference’s next time

now you can weather the normal way, i think

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I think maybe this link will help those not “in the know”. It is an excellent way of creating the look of chipped paint using salt. While the article is aimed at the model airplane crowd, the technique can easily be applied to a lot of our models …

http://www.swannysmodels.com/Salting.html

Mark.

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yes you are correct, this idea came from an article from the fine scale modeler, and they used an model airplane to show the steps

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here is somemore of my new technique of weathering with table salt

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Lookin good Rick. I saw that article and immediatly thought,“that’ll work on trains really well.” Hope to try it one of these next days. The article is actually in a special edition called “How to paint and weather scale models.” The article described the use of salt on a model of a japanese plane and on some armor models. The mag should be available in the grocery store newstands yet. A short version of the article is that you apply regular table salt to a model which has been moistened where you want the salt to stuck then sprinkle salt on the areas you don’t want the final coat to stick to. After the final coat you rub off the paint revealing the metalic undercoat. You did a good job on the grain elevator.

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if there’s no train on the cover i probably don’t look at the magazine [:)]

got to admit though , that’s a very effective weathering technique . your model looks great

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This particular magazine is also published by Kalmbach. Here’s a link:

http://kalmbachcatalog.stores.yahoo.net/fs1.html

I saw this issue in the store (actually in the PX in Kuwait) and it caught my eye, so I bought it. After reading through it, I think it could be used as an excellent reference and how-to for painting and weathering model trains. The issue is kind of pricey ($7+), but if you see it in the store, I highly recommend picking up a copy.

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Rick,

  1. your weathering looks great, very impressive.

  2. just a thanks for the tip. I’m going to try this method.

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Really looks great, but make sure you rinse off any salt completely. I would be hesitant to use it around anything electrical, like motive power. I had a friend who tried some senic effects years ago with powdered Rit dyes (which contain salt) mixed with plaster. I still shudder to think about the contact problems that commenced when the summer humidity hit that combination. You wouldn’t believe what salt can do to brass rail!

JBB

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That is a really good tip, washing it off, i never even thought about that part, being as i got the idea from a plastic modelers magazine i guess they would not have thought of that little disclaimer

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Airplane!! Isn’t that an alternate mode of transportation used by people who are not interested in the journey but only in getting there??