Amazing!
Say, if you want to see some amazing weathering check this video out, it's from the October 2022 York Train Meet. Skip ahead to 27:20 for the weathered cars or watch the whole vid, pretty darn interesting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmmdOIwSt6E
Again, the weathering's not something I'd be interested in but I sure can appreciate the craftsmanship!
Depending on what you want you have to not go too far in the weathering dept.
You know, while I appreciate all the effort that goes into a weathering job, and some are pretty amazing, I prefer to leave my stuff "as is." Not realistic as far as real-world used-hard railroad equipment, but I like it.
For HO scale passenger cars with no interior details it helps to weather the model with a dry brushed earth coating including the windows the weathered car on the right is in contrast to the unweatherd car on the left(MDC HO Harriman Passenger cars).
I agree ,unless they have seats then the silhouettes are the way to go!
The Williams cars I've got are the same, they did the Lionel thing with the silhouettes.
Honestly, I prefer the silhouette strips to clear windows. They're good enough for my purposes, I don't need a detailed car interior. In fact, cars with strips (including the milk jug strips) seem to be a bit brighter when they're lit than when they have clear windows.
My Williams passenger cars have line drawings of people etched into the plastic windows.
I did the milk jug thing on the MTH passenger cars I've got that I didn't feel like putting people into. It does look good!
Good idea I know some lighted Lionel cabeese had opaque windows like that!
No, I couldn't see, but that's a good idea. With my way you can't see inside that there's nuthin' in there.
Quick story, I had four old Lionel cheapie cabooses I wanted to unload at a club show. To make them more saleable I did the milk jug thing and glazed the open windows.
Well, a guy came by and bought all four at $5 each (all I wanted) and said "Wow! That's an interesting variation on those cabooses. I've never seen any windows like that." "Of course not," I replied, I did it!" He asked me how so I told him. "Great idea!" he said, "I'll try it on some of my own!"
Well it may be hard to see,but I did add clear plastic from an old CD case in the inside to simulate glazed windows!
Now that's cool! A nice high chimney so the smoke doesn't get in the eyes of the guy in the cupola!
Hey, you want to really improve the look of the caboose? Do what I did, cut some strips out of empty milk jugs and glaze the windows. I really improves the look of those otherwise open holes!
By the way, I used a golf tee on one of my own cabooses. It's a BIG chimney!
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