P.S., as good as your weathering is, I can see why you guard your rolling stock with a Kv-1 and -2!
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Lol…sure on the next one
Thanks
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Many thanks!
No prob, hit the gondola with another thinned out mix of X20A and a couple drops of flat white to take the CP Action Red to more of a salmon pink…
peeled off the tape off the data plates…
squeezed out some W/N Raw Umber and Van Dyck Brown onto a cardboard scrap to wick off the linseed oil…
Now it’s ready for the oil paint…
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AC kaput…don’t feel like painting today…
But flipped the car over…and did some logo bleed with Winsor and Newton Titanium White on one side
This will get the Van Dyck Brown / Raw Umber oil grunge treatment once it’s sealed…
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Went for a heavier weathering look on this one compared to the CP gondola I did earlier in this thread…but I airbrushed the Tamiya grime mix so heavy the CP 340 956 was barely legible… I didn’t like it so much so about 1/2 hour afterward I took a Q-tip dipped in X20A and rubbed some of the grime off…
I will hit it next with some clear flat…then do some touch up…and move on to the other side / interior
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You really have captured the look of the grime that accumulates on rail equipment. Beautifully done ! They get filthy for sure. I can attest to that as I am a conductor on the LIRR and sometimes work freight ( we call them work trains) . Merely rubbing up against them in the course of my duties gets my clothes filthy with soot, brake dust road grime etc lol. Even if I wear gloves my hands still get black . Again excellent job!
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The vast majority of our equipment also has graffiti all over them btw, except for the engines as they get serviced quite often at our engine facilities.
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Thanks… !
most of my freight is in the pre-graffiti era…60s, 70s and 80s
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No problem!
Keep up the great work.
Rich
Thanks Rich,
I have to work up the courage to weather a loco
Maybe you have an older one to experiment on that you won’t mind making mistakes on ? I have about 20 engines stashed away with some rolling stock as well and I think I tried weathering one many years ago. I can understand your reluctance, they are very expensive!
I am gonna start on cheap Roundhouse loco to get the ball rolling…
LOL
I knew LIRR sounded familiar… I have a timetable for Ronkonkoma kicking around here
Yeah why not ? Lol…
I live about ten minutes from Ronkonkoma station and worked that branch many years ago. I left passenger service about 3 years ago. Trains are still about 80% empty due to Covid.