Reply to "My first attempt at weathering a steamer"

I liked it, only thing might be to have some differing shades of weathering, since weathering is things like soot from the engine, dust, dirt, squashed insects, not to mention things like rust that runs (orange streaks).  I like your technique, looks better than when I tried it. When I was growing up my layout was next to an increasingly unreliable oil furnace, and some of my cars got 'weathered' by some soot just before it died.