Hey
I found a prototype picture for my SW1500 by Athearn, and I weathered it or atleast tried.
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Tjsingle
looks good. Will you add that black line that runs down the prototype’s side?
Maybe i might i want to see some more comments first.
looks good!!
Looks good to me. Good job.
TJ - The weathering on that switcher looks ten fold better then what you started with on the gon. Nice job.
A thin wash of a black or dark blue to fill in some of the edges in the body would give the details a very defined look. It would also help you to dull down some of the rust.
Not all rust is the dark red/orange color. You may find some that over time has became a dark brown, or is a lighter almost grayish-red depending on location and how old it is.
You might also consider taking a cue-tip and getting just a bit of a flat gray paint to rub on the exposed edges of metal to show recent scrapes / dings that haven’t started to rust yet. This is something that needs to be ever-so-light and not be over done. Edges of plows, opened doors, bent grab irons or railings etc all may show this depending on what’s happened to them.
Perhaps not all the door panels and railings on your locomotive are original. Maybe they had some pieces and parts replaced from salvageable parts off a donor locomotive. Maybe some things (grab irons and railings are easy swap-overs) are painted different colors.
Tjsingle,
I much better attempt at weathering then some of your previous examples. I glad to see you’ve taken the advice of find some prototype pictures and are using them to help guide your weathering. The model looks good, not overdone or too heavy. The exhaust stacks look good. One area to focus on some more is the trucks. Loco trucks don’t usually get really, really rusty. The tend to get greasy or grimy more than rusty. Another is the front pilot, usually more dirty than rusty. You’re making good progress - keep at it.
Thanks guys, I know that ive made progress, and that my gondola was well lets just say… um… horrid.
thanks again
Tjsingle
So Grimy would be a grayish black?
Much more subtle.
You need to vary the colors a little (an I apologize you used different colors and the color rendering on the computer hid it). Note that on the real unit the only real rust color is on the front stack. The colors on the lower half are actually a dusty brown color. The vast majority of the dirt on the bottom half is on the ends of things, not on the sides of things. For example you have a huge streak of rust down the main reservoir, but there is nothing on the real engine. You have huge streaks of rust on the trucks, but there is nothing on the prototype. The trucks have a little dust around the bottoms.
Take some thin black washes and brush over the heavily weathered areas on the bottom and tone them down. Get a tannish color and very light dry brush the bottom of the ends (not sides) of the fuel tank. Dry brush the tan color on the pilot sheet, particularly above the rails. Weather in a litel black wash over it after the tan dries thoroughly.
Then weather the vertical black stripe on the doors. Note that that is cause by oil blowing out through the cracks around the edges of the door. So you only want it around the cracks on one side or maybe two doors and only on the door itself, NOT the whole side and NOT up onto the top of the hood. Use a thin wash and a hair drier to put on a wash, dry it, then add another wash. Subtlety.
Looking better, you’re getting there. The hardest part would be to get that faded blue paint look. To doo that it would require giving the whole engine a veeeerrrryyyy light wash of a light grey or white before you started doing any other weathering and letting it dry for a couple days.
Dave H.
Well anyways I did take some advice and fixed it up a bit
Some pics
(note: The black stripe on the side is not the same as the real photos and since the numbers are not the same i dont think it matters.)
Sorry about the blurryness
Tjsingle
Looks even better now, I’d be proud to have it rolling down my pike.