Would like easy assistance weatherizing boxcars. Jeffrey
Collect several photos of weathered rolling stock for reference.
Dullcoat the plastic car. Caution using spray around metal wheel sets and couplers.
Use weathering chalk sticks available at LHS or online—rusts, black, grey, etc.
When the Dullcoat has dried, with single edge razor blade shave off chalk sticks to a powder.
Use a paint brush to apply.
In addition to chalk, or pastels, there are other techniques of weatrhering including washes, spraying light coats of dirt & grime color, wet and dry brushing color (especially rust), and some products such as RUSTALL that I am going to try.
Basic Painting and Weathering Is a Kalmbach Book by Jeff Wilson that covers this topic well.
If you don’t want to buy a book, type in model railroad weathering on Google or your favorite search engine. There is some good stuff out there on the web.
Most weathering I have seen is to much or to regular for my taste. Older cars should be more weathered unless recently repainted. Passenger trains might be cleaned more often than freight trains.
Weathering is an art. I agree that photos are a better place to start with than with one’s head.
Lots of ways to do that. Mostly depends on the tools you have available. Pastel chalks are would say is the easiest. You can just bush it on and if you new to Wx’ing less of a chance of destroying the car with paint. You can email me at mbe4385@sbcglobal.net and I will send you a couple of pictures so you can see what I mean.
The best weathering advice you’ll find on-line
is at Model Trains Weathered.
Honest critiques and always helpful people to help
you wade through the many different varieties of weathering.
Go to this link and look for the flashing banner.
http://www.modeltrainsweathered.com/gallery.htm
This one.
You will have to register. (It keeps the spammers out.)
Register and come on in.
Jerry
This is the prototype forum. You’d probably get a lot better response in the General Discussion area. Hope that helps.
“The Art of Weathering” by Martyn Welch is pretty much the bible of all model RR weathering books. [:)] I believe it’s out of print but you should be able to find it online.
Some of the best paint fading can be done by just placing the cars outside in sunlight for a period of time. The natural UV in sunlight will fade everything.
An interesting discussion came up recently on another forum on how cars weathered differently in the steam/transition era compared to more modern. Differences in paint and lower maintainance have led to more rust for instance to more soot buildup on cars run behind steam.
Cal
I checked it out myself, as it was the first time I’ve heard of this site. on the page you linked is a model by Darth Aggro…Hmmm, sounds familiar. Could that be our own resident weathering god (small “g”, as not to offend)?