It doesn’t look very bad from the pic’…but I keep wondering why You choose a Brown wash…Is not Mahogany more Reddish?
I also don’t believe that it is too much work for a single flat car load, (unique flat car load) one of a kind, built by You. There is no time limit for a true craftsman…only if it involves money.
I tried red by itself and of course it was way too ‘red’. Then I tried a mix of red and brown but it looked more like anti-fouling paint than wood. What I may try is a very light red wash over what’s there now. Fortunately I am using Humbrol enamels which come off quite easily with paint thinner. If it gets overdone then I just wash it off and start over.
Thanks to Frank I had a brain storm! Actually calling it a storm would be a bit of an embelishment.
The previous pictures looked more like a cedar boat than mahogany. I needed to add red but still needed to see the brown and yellow. What better than Tamiya’s Clear Red? This looks more like it:
Yeah, far too much Dave, but whenever does a project go exactly to plan, and to time.
Never!! at the Bears work bench.[sigh][(-D]
The first photo looked [8D] but that looks really[8D]
Cheers, the Bear (green with envy)[:D]
Here’s my contribution for the week! (Finally had enough time to do something with the layout!) Been enjoying my Contour camera, it works quite well in a well car. I do have trouble with the lighting in my room, though. Shades closed yields too much ISO grain, but shades all the way open yields overexposure… [sigh] Such hardships!
At least skip to 21:50 if you don’t want to watch the whole thing!
I have one section ballasted, hoping to do more tomorrow.
DJ … Yes, but I can’t recall the manufacturer of the kit. I assembled the kit a few years ago, and the kit was an older one at the time. It is made of clear plastic.
Garry You mentioned clear plastic…Williams Bros. made clear plastic kits, that You painted and assembled. At the time I got them, they were in three packs, Then singlely. The bros. died and the business was purchased by Brett Ind. Inc. They still sell the kits, I am told, but in single kits. Here is a link to the Nomad pic’:
If you are interested in my methods, I saved the navigation light and the davets from the original deck. The rest of the deck and cabin got tossed. Then I trimmed the back of the hull down to create the barrel back look. The new deck is .020" thick Evergreen scribed sheet with .040" spacing. The vents are simply .060 styrene rod cut at an angle. The exhaust pipes are brass tube. I have windshields made from a piece of heavy clear packaging.
To get the mahogany colour (after several false starts) I started with grey automotive primer, then a coat of Polyscale Reading Yellow, then a wash of Humbrol #113 matt brown enamel and finally a light coat of Tamiya acrylic Clear Red. I also have Alclad II Chrome for plastics and black base coat on order to do the shiny bits. I have clear coated the whole thing with Testors Glosscote so I can use Microscale Micro Mask to isolate the chrome details. Apparently you can’t use the Micro Mask over acrylics.
Moved from engines past passenger cars into freight cars these past two weeks. All cars are still awaiting weathering and clear coats.
I spent time sorting through all my childhood rolling stock deciding which ones to repurpose-- a mix of Bachmann train set, old Mantua and an Athearn BB or two. The trucks all came off and were re-wheeled with IMs. I primed and sprayed the bodies with a coat of black and re-decaled using a mix of Microscale, Champ and an ancient Walthers set that kept disintegrating as I tried to place the dimensional data on the cars…[banghead] Modeler’s license applies esp. to some of the decal work as I like to work with what I’ve got on hand (and, to my knowledge, Rio Grande shipped coal in drop-bottom gondolas during steam days, not the big hoppers…)
I also took my old Athearn SP caboose, styrened a few of its windows shut, put Kadee trucks on it, and repainted for DRGW. I plan to add handrails and, eventually, the radio lines and antennae to the roof, but can’t bring myself to do it yet because I’m moving in two months and just know all those details will snap off in transit.