Weathering Locomotives & Rolling stock

[Eastern Roads]

Here's our victim, a nice shiny Switch Tower that happened to have a loco passing by. Very Stock, Very Plain!



Okay, so I went and got the washes out, and put in some glazing and then some window shade treatment! This is an "evening" pic with a GP-7 laid up alongside:



It's done with some rust wash, and added glazing, then the glazing colored in to look like window shades. Quick and easy!!

[thogan3]

Masking tape applied to the inside glazing, at different lengths, looks like old shades as well, I've used it in my cabooses as well

[hoscalemodeler1967]

Originally Posted by Eastern Roads

Steve, a lot of people think they need a layout to do all their work and pictures with. I did most of the work on my rolling stock and engines before I ever had a place to run them! When I got to finally laying some track down, I had the equipment in pretty decent shape, but most of all, I could concentrate on the rest of the RR, without worrying that my HO Paint Shop was being over ambitious with all the new paintwork! Now I can work on the cars and engines as I get them, one or two at a time. One of the things I tinkered with between layouts was a diorama and tried scenery techniques, and I had a place to show my trains. So I had my cake and got to eat it too!! (And I love cake!!)

Mmmmmmm cakeeeee

[Eastern Roads]

Here's something different I tried with weathering. I had an Athearn PRR Boxcar that the color was just way off on. I don't understand why Athearn did stuff like this, I guess they just ran out of cars to paint, and some flunky pulled out a batch for another road, and they figured any color works for the PRR. Well, that problem is history, since I did this.

Well, anyway, I used some washes, and flooded the sides and hit the roof a few times. I scratched the areas where the doors slide open, the camera didn't pick it up too well, but they're there...Here's pictures of the sides and the top:

[hoscalemodeler1967]

repainted a chessie switcher to CN colors.

then started weathering it

and weathered it some more,,just gotta put details back on,,but only half on,,it is a CN after all,,parts gotta dangle,,n rust



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[Shawn Fields]

one of the nice things about G is that you can easily weather stuff with a simple ole' rattle can...

before...



And After....



And one more...



and of course the tower got a new name and some other details...

[hoscalemodeler1967]

now i gotta ask,,is that smoke from locos,,,or overspray your inhaling there eh?,,

[Shawn Fields]

Cappy,
That's smoke from the locos....actually thats from one Locomotive...

This one..



A Little better one....

[hoscalemodeler1967]

,i kinda knew that,,but seeing as how ur inhailing smoky lubricants and aerosol,,,i thought i'd humour ya

[Shawn Fields]

Yeah Cappy after running that engine for a few minutes and you go upstairs you get an oxygen buzz