Weathering :-
Weathering your model railway wagons and other types of traffic is pretty important
from a photographic point of view not to mention satisfaction,
Below is the Midland Railway Johnson class loco that has been treated to a mixture of light and heavy dusting of rust and mud colours using both an Iwata single action and double action airbrush, along with some very thin black enamel for stains.
British Railfreight OAA Wagon.
as it was the Heljan model, as we can see far too bright an toy like.
The first job was to give the whole red area a light dusting of white enamel in order to "fade" the red this worked very well, then I used some light grey to darken most of the lower panels along with some flesh colour to represent a few replaced planks. The chassis was treated with various browns using both types of airbrush the single action being easier to control for tiny rust spots. To finish some VERY thin runny black thinners was dropped between the planks and around the rivet detail to highlight all the details. the results are very effective indeed.
Below the B.R Mark one coach before
And after the same treatment
The window was removed and a piece of plastic glaze glued in using self closing angled tweezers .
A good supply of both acrylics, enamels, cellulose thinners and turps is essential for this job as well as a good tool kit, size 000 brushes are recommended.
HAPPY MODELLING .
Class P3 J27 , using a matt black finish enabled me to use variuos shades of weathering powder that "stains" into the black paint. The white runs in front of the cab are thin white paint apllied with a tiny brush to represent limescale.
Below:- The "toad" brake van
Getting on for twenty years old this model has been painted umpteen times.
I'm rather proud of this accident with Nitromors ! The plastic started melting so I had to wash it off QUICKLY . The resultant layers of paint revealed look quite good with a flaky paint effect. Sometimes you learn from mistakes you make and put them to good use.
Kit built traffic, with homemade transfers.
Matt paint really does do those weathering powders a power of good, these three guys are lightly weathered.
