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Old 05-16-2007, 06:03 AM
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my weatherin attempts

Heres some items I tried weathering using acrylics, alcohol, and water wash mix.
A Athearn FGE


an AHM Great Western Malting 3 bay covered hopper


a Life Like cheapy Seaboard 50' box car


an Athearn 50' Seaboard pd box


and lastly another Life Like cheapy Weyerhauser Thrall all door box
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Old 05-16-2007, 05:43 PM
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Looking good. I have tryed my hand at some weathering but so far i have two cars i done that i like the others looked real bad. But i am only messing with cheap cars until i learn to do it a lot better.

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Old 05-16-2007, 10:47 PM
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Nice job Thoroughbreed,
You can even make the cheapy cars look good when you weather them.

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