I have to weather/paint the chassis but the body is complete. I used the rock salt method to get the rusty crusty look. Dupli-color and Tamiya paints. THX
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Sweet! I really like that method and anything that doesn't pop off just adds texture, like a rust bubble waiting to happen.
Got an air brush?...you could take up a knotch if you wanted, but she looks good this way- clean and run down.
Very nice job and technique. It looks like it needs a good sandblasting, primer and new paint.
I've been weathering some On3 freight cars with oil washes. These are my first attempts and I may post some photos at a later time.
Paul S
Originally Posted by Burlington Route:
Sweet! I really like that method and anything that doesn't pop off just adds texture, like a rust bubble waiting to happen.
Got an air brush?...you could take up a knotch if you wanted, but she looks good this way- clean and run down.
I have a few air brushes.....but I have gotten to where I only use them for weathering. Cans have gotten so good and I so lazy (I hate cleaning them) I've made the switch.
I used the rock salt method to get the rusty crusty look.
Ok, I'll bite.... Rock salt method???
Originally Posted by Wood:
I used the rock salt method to get the rusty crusty look.
Ok, I'll bite.... Rock salt method???
It's very easy....just takes some experimenting!! Paint your model a rusty color.....I use Dupli-color red primer with a little black primer in some areas. These are spray cans.
After the 'rust' is dry I apply wet water, water with a single drop of dish soap, to areas I want rust. While wet I sprinkle on salt. I use both table salt and some cooking rock salt to get different texture. After the salt is dried well I spray the body color.
When the body color is dried the salt is washed and picked off the model.....leaving the rust color and peeling paint.
Results in a rusty crusty look! THX
weathering has to be an aqiured "taste".
I like my locos and rolling stock fresh and clean,
unless its an old prewar or postwar and then I
like to leave it in the condition I bought it
unless its a basketcase and needs restaoring.
Yes....agreed. This will be for a small run down mine RR so rust is good!
BTW.....while at the VA Transportation Museum last weekend I got a good close up walk around of a NS SD-60 loco. It was one of their 'show' locos, nice and clean, Williams like glossy paint. But when you got really close you saw it was a heavy industrial machine and thus you could see where it was dented, dirty on the underside and signs of bubble rust under that thick glossy paint. So these trains we love, in the real world, are just machines that are used until they are used up!
But that's why this hobby is so GREAT...to each his own!!!
Popi, true, but even a dusting of flat can tone down anything to make it look dusty...but if ya like em shiney...then there's little work to be done but run them.
Dave, I could suggest on my part, that you make a wash of heavily thinned out rust color- like 1/3 tamiya jar full of water and 4-5 drops of rust paint- and spray that around the rust areas...juuuust get it wet then hold the air on- no more paint- to dry it.....keep hitting an area to make rust runs or just a general area here and there to your liking. Being so thinned out you will have to seal it with a clear of some kind- flat/satin/gloss...your choice{blend clears to get the finish you'd want, your not limited to the jars available}. Another neat thing about the washes being thinned out is you can remove some of it if you over do it via a Q-tip....use the same technique for black washes{grime/oil} or grey washes{dust}.
