Excellent information to add to the understanding. Now, this is what I call a (productive) conversation (as opposed to an agruement/hissing-match)! KOOL!
go to your local farm, get some manure and you could have sights and smells
of a real farm!!!
Now, there's a scene I could model - and with plenty of "weathering" to boot!
My train room is always dry & 65 to 75 degrees & definitely dry.
Ken M 
Point well made, Adriatic, and happily taken (and learned.)
Gents,
I use india ink and alcohol wash.. the 'weathering' tones down the whites,
doesn't make em look dirty per day, just tones down the colours..
Great post.
Dan
Why yes, I do.
Paul
These photos depict the ever-present dust of west Texas.
Also, I don't think I have ever seen O gauge cows with horns...too bad.
I think have a running longhorn from old "cowboy sets"(like toy soldiers), but it just as easily may be an oxen(pionier set), or even a waterbuffullo (african safari sets)
I have the African warriors too, but non in a watersking postion
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Maybe if I whitttled on a bow legged cowboy a bit, I'd have reason for a mud pit
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...besides monster trucks
Weather everything for a real world look. Even shiny plastic people need some mileage on them.
Weather everything for a real world look. Even shiny plastic people need some mileage on them.
"Shiny plastic people," yes. However, should we not keep in mind, also, that positively everything in life is not dirty or weathered. Just such a place leaps to mind when I think of where to eat or even buy food. Yes, there are weathered grocery-carts at my local A&P, but when it comes to a restaurant, I know I can find very, very clean, UNweathered venues. And do. Everyting is NOT dirty and/or worn.
How 'bout the nearest successful car dealership? Clean? Even pristine? I'll bet it is. At least, the one I go to is.
Oh well, it's your layout, do what you want. My layout is a mixture of what I have observed in the world. Some things are clean; some are dirty; some are poorly-used or even derelict. A mixture. But not everything is necessarily weathered, IMO.
FRankM.
Here's a little further food-for-thought. I took this photo while traveling along Brake Hill Road just a wee bit north of Homer, NY, just off Rt.41, last Sept. Clean bison, no less (!) But no shiny coats! (Where would we ever find miniature, scale models of bison, one doesn't wonder. )
Oh well, I post this just for fun and for conversation.
You understand that may not be just mud!
Virginian posted:I am building my Angus stock yard now and plan to make a few of mine look like this:
Cool! That groundcover may be interesting to model, too, including what Play Trains has implied. Would you do those ear-tags, too?
FrankM.
Now that takes detailing to an all time high level!!....or low!!
OK, how do get the critters to hold still till your done spraying them. Some of them can really kick hard.
All right, I just had to chime in--what a great post. In my decades of casual reading on the hobby, I don't ever recall a specific article/topic on weathering livestock (not that folks haven't done so, obviously). Awesome. I hope this thread has long legs...
All the responses and photos are great. Wouldn't we all like to see Steve (SIRT) post some end-of-project photos here to wow everyone? Thanks, this has been an enjoyable one!
Speaking of long legs and your photo ... one of my fantasy layouts is to create a short spur track to a livestock quarantine station that was once off the Boston & Maine line that runs through my town. The town history says that in addition to cattle and horses, giraffes, elephants? and other exotic animals were known to stay for a while on their way to a circus or Midwestern zoo. All I'm saying is: it could happen! :-} (Now, if only I could find B&M stock cars ...)
Tomlinson Run Railroad
Yes, as we all know, (somewhere) there is a prototype for everything!
Apologies for the weak photos(bad lighting and iPhone camera) but I at least have started experimenting with weathering my cows. Still work needed on reducing shininess of cows but this was a 5 minute effort and at least gives me the idea that it can be done and if done correctly will look much better than no weathering. In the bottom picture the middle cow has a single coat of testors dullcote and the one on the right is what I started with.
John Pignatelli JR. posted:OK, how do get the critters to hold still till your done spraying them. Some of them can really kick hard.
A certain amount of creativity is possible.........
OMG
like Frank I have used dull coat as first step. Then smear with finger a bit of tinted (matches farm area) fusionfiber aronud hoofs etc. Once dry It comes off with warm water if I dont like it
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