Weathering Wednesday - 7/17/2024 Edition

@Randy Harrison posted:

           My son, Chris, has been at it again. Below is a before and after photo of a Jersey Central RR Refer that Chris completed over the weekend using his technique that he explained in a video on a previous Weathering Wednesday.

          Now it is your turn to show us your weathering artistry as well as how you achieved yours results.

Randy, your son is doing a great job with his weathering technique. I did a light weathering to all my buildings, but I just can’t bring myself to weathering my rolling stock. Maybe in the future I’ll give it a shot.

Gene

@Genemed posted:

Randy, your son is doing a great job with his weathering technique. I did a light weathering to all my buildings, but I just can’t bring myself to weathering my rolling stock. Maybe in the future I’ll give it a shot.

Gene

@Genemed

That is GREAT weathering! What materials and techniques did you use to obtain such fine results?

@Randy Harrison posted:

@Genemed

That is GREAT weathering! What materials and techniques did you use to obtain such fine results?

Randy, thank you. I used 2 shade groups of Pan Pastels with the foam applicators. These sets gave me a nice combination of necessary colors to achieve a natural weathered look and add some rust and dirt where needed.

Gene

Keeping with my gondola theme from last week, here's an "old" Atlas (now Atlas Trainman) Pennsylvania gon that I completed in October 2021.  It's another in a long line of cars I weathered to develop my skills and try new techniques.  As mentioned in my post last week, I weathered these cars, then sold them to raise some $$ to purchase more cars to weather, so it's long gone from my collection.  Hopefully someone is enjoying it today!

Lots of different techniques were used on this car.  I remember using mostly dry-brushed acrylics and acrylic washes on the inside of the car, and mostly powders and pan pastels on the exterior.  The trucks and couplers received a combination of acrylics, powders and pan pastels.  The simulated "chalk" markings were done with colored pencils. Of course the entire car received a flat dull-cote to lock everything in.

Just a simple weathering job with Vallejo washes…

@Krieglok posted:

Just a simple weathering job with Vallejo washes…

@Krieglok

Exquisite work, as always, sir.

Thanks Randy! There is always room for improvements with my work. I may do a little dry brushing to add some highlights.

Your work (and others here) with powders for weathering, are interesting. The results are outstanding!

I may give them a try.

Tom

            Weathering Wednesday, 5/29/2024 is here. So, gentlemen and ladies, again start your air brushes, acrylic paints and pastel chalks. I and your fellow forum members are eager to see your engines, rolling stock, buildings and scenery that you have weathered and don’t forget to explain and demonstrate your techniques for us.

          But first, here are the forum ground rules as so adroitly stated by my good friend Patrick Whitehead (aka trumptrain), host of the popular topic of this type, Switcher Saturday:

• Have fun and enjoy!
• Post only photos that you have taken.  
• If you post a photo taken by someone else or a copyrighted photo be sure you have express written permission from the photo's owner to post their photo.  
• Any individual who posts copyrighted material is subject to legal liability. Furthermore, that individual will be banned from the OGR Forum.  
• Please consult the OGR Forum TOS (Terms of Service) for further information regarding copyrights.

I will start today’s Weathering Wednesday with another of my son Chris’ recently weathered Jersy Central boxcar with before and after photos:

          Now it is your turn to show us your weathering artistry as well as how you achieved yours results.

Nice weathering work, Chris! Definitely looks like a car from Jersey! lol

Some light weathering projects of mine…

MTH 19th Century reefer, modified painted and weathered…

A MTH 19th Century gondola, modified, painted and weathered…

Finally, a MTH 40’ boxcar, painted and weathered…

Tom

@Krieglok posted:

Nice weathering work, Chris! Definitely looks like a car from Jersey! lol

Some light weathering projects of mine…

MTH 19th Century reefer, modified painted and weathered…

A MTH 19th Century gondola, modified, painted and weathered…

Finally, a MTH 40’ boxcar, painted and weathered…

Tom

@Krieglok

Tom:

Chris says thank you for the compliment. Coming from a man of your skills, that is high praise.

Your painting, decaling and weathering is the definition of artistry!

A shiny Atlas DD boxcar with glossy black couplers becomes >>>

Hello everyone!
Here is some of my old weathered projects.

For these two buildings I used a dry brush technique with cheap acrylic paints. I like my stuff to be dirty so I like to use grey and black paint to dull the clean bright look.

These cars I used the same dry brush technique for the base weathering but I then took a can of black spray paint and applied the black sooty effect. Finally, a mat clear coat raps things up.

ATTENTION ALL REALISM-IN-MODEL-RAILROADING FANS!!!! It is that time of the week again. Weathering Wednesday, 6/5/2024 is here. So, I hope that you have more of your GREAT weathered engines, rolling stock, buildings and scenery to share. I and your fellow forum members are eager to see your see your artistry and learn from your techniques.

But first, here are the forum ground rules:

• Have fun and enjoy!
• Post only photos that you have taken.  
• If you post a photo taken by someone else or a copyrighted photo be sure you have express written permission from the photo's owner to post their photo.  
• Any individual who posts copyrighted material is subject to legal liability. Furthermore, that individual will be banned from the OGR Forum.  
• Please consult the OGR Forum TOS (Terms of Service) for further information regarding copyrights.

I will start today’s Weathering Wednesday with one of my son Chris’ recently weathered tank cars with before and after photos

Now it is your turn to show us your weathering artistry as well as how you achieved yours results.

My second attempt at weathering. Not to shabby for a beginner!

@CR Cole posted:

My second attempt at weathering. Not to shabby for a beginner!

@CR Cole:

That is superb weathering! Keep up the good work and continue sharing your results with us each week.

Great stuff! Love the rusty cars…

My small contribution this week…

Tom

Ladies and gentlemen! Children of ALL ages! Bungling Brothers Circus presents the Greatest(?) Topic on the OGR Forum, Weathering Wednesday, 6/12/2024!! You will be thrilled by GREAT weathered engines, rolling stock, buildings and scenery! You will be amazed by GREAT artistry! You will learn new weathering techniques from the contributing artists!

          First, I draw your attention to the center ring! Here are the forum ground rules:

• Have fun and enjoy!
• Post only photos that you have taken.  
• If you post a photo taken by someone else or a copyrighted photo be sure you have express written permission from the photo's owner to post their photo.  
• Any individual who posts copyrighted material is subject to legal liability. Furthermore, that individual will be banned from the OGR Forum.  
• Please consult the OGR Forum TOS (Terms of Service) for further information regarding copyrights.

And now, our first featured performer…that master of schmutz, grime and rust, Chris Harrison with some of his weathered freight cars!

Lionel, MPC hoppers in Mt. Carroll Yards on the Great Northeastern Railway (GNR).

A weathered, Lackawanna gondola with a weathered scrap load.

A Reading boxcar by Weaver.

An Atlas, Industrial Rail tank car weathered by the GNR weathering wizard, Chris!

          Now! In the center Ring! Our featured act of the day… ALL OF YOU!!!! It is your turn to show us your weathering artistry as well as how you achieved yours results.

Some weathered cars.

The reefer is a MTH factory paint job, with details and weathering added…

A weaver car, painted and weathered by me…

A MTH gondola, painted and weathered by me…

Tom

Atlas car converted to a D&H Cement car. Lucked out on the auction site and found a NYC car with a damaged brake wheel that had to be changed out anyways at a great price. Hatches and chutes were courtesy of Forum member AlanRail. Removed the stock lettering with an air eraser. Repainted using a Tamiya custom mix starting out with Dull Red. I really wanted to simulate spilled cement from filling. I started with a white chalk and ended up misting on some flat white. Not sure if it’s completely done yet but it’s in service on the layout now while I experiment with some ideas.

Trying to get this 3rd Rail Anniversary Series Allegheny onto the layout. Almost done (I hope):

Here's an "old" Atlas gondola that I modified and weathered several years ago.  It was originally decorated for the Norfolk and Western.  I repainted and re-lettered it for the Jersey Central, replaced the old Atlas plastic trucks and couplers with Weaver die-cast ones, added brake hoses and a few wire grab irons...and of course weathered it.  The awesome "muck" load was made for me by fellow Forum member "Rail" (aka Don K.) @rail.

Unfortunately, it was one of my very first attempts at repainting a freight car, before I knew how to remove lettering, so you can see the N&W lettering under the new paint job if you get up close...but it looks great from 4' away!   The new CNJ lettering was a set of dry transfers from CDS Lettering.  Wish they were still around!

Weathering was done with acrylics, oils, chalks and powders.  This was before I discovered pan pastels.  White chalk was used to represent the fading/running of the white lettering.

A few more photos below.

@CNJ #1601 posted:

Weathering was done with acrylics, oils, chalks and powders.  This was before I discovered pan pastels.  White chalk was used to represent the fading/running of the white lettering.

Nicely done! The photos look excellent with that background, very realistic.

Gene

Nice job Norm. The weathering really pops all the plumbing on the Allegheny. As cool as your layout is. So is your workshop. Always looks so organized.

Joe, I love the chalk marks you do on your cars by hand. Unfortunately my full scale writing is bad enough. I can’t imagine trying to scale it down to O scale. I like the decals but while they are still attached to the sheet. I find it hard to pick out individual ones to cut out.

Thanks for the nice comments, Gene and Dave.  Norm's work is at a completely different level.  Outstanding!

ATTENTION ALL REALISM-IN-MODEL-RAILROADING FANS!!!! It is that time of the week again. Weathering Wednesday, 6/19/2024 is here. So, I hope that you have more of your GREAT weathered engines, rolling stock, buildings and scenery to share. I and your fellow forum members are eager to see your see your artistry and learn from your techniques.

          But first, here are the forum ground rules:

• Have fun and enjoy!
• Post only photos that you have taken.  
• If you post a photo taken by someone else or a copyrighted photo be sure you have express written permission from the photo's owner to post their photo.  
• Any individual who posts copyrighted material is subject to legal liability. Furthermore, that individual will be banned from the OGR Forum.  
• Please consult the OGR Forum TOS (Terms of Service) for further information regarding copyrights.

I will start today’s Weathering Wednesday with one of my son Chris’ recently weathered freight cars and a building I scratch-built and weathered.

            Now it is your turn to show us your weathering artistry as well as how you achieved yours results.

My contribution this week…

Tom

Nice work, Tom. Looks realistic. Not overdone.

My first attempt at weathering with chalks and alcohol. You have to start somewhere. I have 6 of these black New Haven boxcars, so that was a good place to start.

@Randy Harrison posted:

I will start today’s Weathering Wednesday with one of my son Chris’ recently weathered freight cars and a building I scratch-built and weathered.

           

Randy, that’s a cool, unique building you made and weathered, fits perfectly within that scene. Nice layout too.

Gene

@Bill Park posted:

My first attempt at weathering with chalks and alcohol. You have to start somewhere. I have 6 of these black New Haven boxcars, so that was a good place to start.

Looks good Bill, especially for being your first.

Gene

These are a couple of my favorite lightly weathered buildings I made while building the layout.

Gene

@Bill Park posted:

My first attempt at weathering with chalks and alcohol. You have to start somewhere. I have 6 of these black New Haven boxcars, so that was a good place to start.

@Bill Park

Bill:

You have achieved GREAT results!!!! Had you not told us that was a first attempt, we would have assumed that you were quite experienced.

Question for you Bill: was the alcohol mixed with chalk or used internally to steady your hand!   Seriously, great results, would you mind sharing the steps? I have played with chalk but they seem to dissolve with any liquid...

Here's a Weaver Lehigh & New England 40' PS-1 Boxcar I did back in 2016 when I was still fairly new at weathering and trying different techniques.  I used an airbrush, acrylics, powders and pan pastels on this one.  I sold it several years ago.

Hello everyone!

Here are some photos of some of the locomotives I’ve weathered. The 0-8-0 and the SP GS2 being the newest.

Hi guys I just handed out a bunch of like because you all are doing outstanding work! When I first came to this page I was thinking ok weathering some rolling stock maybe an engine. I never thought about weathering buildings, but that is what I love about this forum. It gets folks like me to start thinking outside the box, the best part is I have amazing teachers right here for free!

Thank you all so much for sharing your outstanding work!

@Krieglok posted:

My contribution this week…

Tom

@Krieglok

Tom:

Your weathering artistry can serve as a benchmark for us all! BRAVO!!!!

@Genemed posted:

Randy, that’s a cool, unique building you made and weathered, fits perfectly within that scene. Nice layout too.

Gene

@Genemed

Gene:

Thanks for the compliments. That REA depot was made while I was a member of the Red Lion (PA.) Model Railroad Club for their layout. They had a piece of real estate near their lower-level main line tracks that needed a structure and want one with a loading dock for REA trucks. It turned out well. Thank you again.

@Genemed posted:

These are a couple of my favorite lightly weathered buildings I made while building the layout.

Gene

@Genemed

Gene:

Your work is SUPERB!!! Thank you for sharing your photos.