Read above.
Allan.
Everything (cars, buildings, people, dogs, cats, trains, etc.) gets weathered.
I don’t do any weathering, I have done some in the past and don’t care for it.
Enjoy
Paul
ditto,everything gets paint on it of some sort,Clinch Valley,nice work!
I haven’t tried weathering anything yet, but I’m sure soon I’ll maybe try my hand at weathering some freight cars. Weathering any locomtive is probably a long ways off. First I need to get good at weathering freight cars. Don’t want to screw any locomotive up and not be able to run it.
I voted lightly weathered. Contrary to popular opinion, logging companies kept their motive power pretty clean.
I like my stuff weathered. To me everything has to look like it could really be found somewhere in real life. I did some heavy weathering on a great northern covered hopper with thinned black acrylic and a thinned rust color a mixed from other acrylics and turned out to be my favorite car i have despite its lack of detail. I like it more than my clean NS athearn genesis high cube box car!
Yes, Clinch Valley, great work!
John
I can’t vote, because there’s no “all of the above”. Most of my stuff (structures, engines, rolling stock) gets a general weathering, some of it gets heavily weathered, and some of it intentionally looks showroom fresh. Real life is like that.
Dont look real if there not weathered, plain and simple.[;)]
A couple examples, top is a kitbash large scale railbus, lightly weathered.
middle is a LGB Porter, medium weathered
bottom is a large scale coaling tower bashed off a Bachmann O scale Plasticville tower, heavily weathered.
[8D]
I weather my buildings, which I feel is a must to get rid of the plastic look. Saying that I’m not brave enough to venture down the road of weathering my fleet…yet.
Right now I’ve got other territories to conquer.
Fergie
Weathered. Nothing is clean, maybe for 3 or 4 hours out of the plant that it was built in. (If it’s a locomotive or car.) Most cars get tagged with graffiti rather quickly.
light to moderate weathering on most stuff, but every now and then a rust bucket thrown in is cool
I voted for weathered. The degree that I do is dependent on “where the model is within its run”. Let me explain.
My Dad was a fireman for the Southern in the 30’s. They kept their locos pretty clean by wiping each one down prior to a run, however, as my Dad said it almost was a waste of time. Because by the time the loco had moved to the departure point from the ready track it already had a layer of soot and other “pollutants” that had rained down from the smokestack and exhaust. Dad said that by the time the loco had left town, the top of the loco looked like it had not been wiped in weeks. His adage was, and I believe it as well was, there is no such thing as a “clean” steam loco that is working and the longer and harder it works, the dirtier it gets.
Even if railroads no longer wa***heir locomotives they did at one time. I like everything to be weathered to a reasonable degree. Passenger service ges much beter care than freight. Some industries are grimierthan others, a bakery is going to look different than a steel mill. The housng on the right side of the track is going to look better than that on the wrong side.
The question is:
“Since most Railroads don’t their Locomotives anymore”
Don’t what?
Bob Boudreau
To me nothing says “Toy Train” like a bright shiny steam locomotive esp. if it’s a freight hauler. Like some of the above posts I try to model as near to the real world as it gets. Why worry about whether a model is the right “phase” if after you are done it still looks like a bright shiny toy.
Bob DeWoody
I haven’t attempted weathering yet. But I voted for “Doesn’t Matter.” Sometimes, it is good to have a mix, because railroads to clean locomotives at times, and then there are always new things appearing that are clean and shiny.
Weathering. Everything, everywhere, all the time.
Of course it matters. I can’t have any ‘glossy toys’ present on my layout.
I’m going to weather all my stuff with Exhuast around the stack(s) and dust on the trucks. I’m not big on heavy weathering. I like to be able to see the engine. so all my engines just get road dust and black exhuast.
I weather EVERYTHING but in varying amounts.
I’ve got a couple old wood boxcars that look practically decrepit. OTOH, I’ve got cars that almost look new but are a bit dusty with only slightly faded looking paint. One example I did recently were a couple of the Athearn grain boxcars for Burlington. I’m modeling 1969 and these cars came out only a year earlier…well, at least according to the BLT date on the carside.