Weathering or Not?

[Anonymous]

Would you take apart all those screws and make it look weathered?
Or just keep it looking new?

[bman36]

Hey there,
Marty Cozad did an exellent seminar on weathering. He showed how you can easily weather rolling stock without taking it apart. Worked very well. Personally I have not weathered any of my pieces to date. Will I??? I'm sure with time yes. It will be light though. I like a new look with just rail dust causing some dirt. All this stuff takes time so gotta' pick and choose. Later eh...Brian.

[vsmith]

Being indoors and not wanting my layout to resemble a glorified Lionel layout, of course I will be weathering every single peice of equipment on my layout, so I voted Yes.

[Anonymous]

Hi all
I am an or not kind of person
I like the look of fresh paint on the trains and weathering is quite art form in its own right
and you ether got it or you aint and I aint
So the closest I get to weathering is to use flat or satin finish paint on anything I build or repaint never full gloss
Full gloss is instant Lionel look that vsmith doesn't want.
Flat and satin paint goes quite some way to getting rid of that.
regards John

[Anonymous]

It all depends on how much I paid for it and whether or not it would affect resale value down the road.

I like to weather and ba***he less expensive stuff such as Lehmann and the Harland Mack above and then don't have to suffer any guilt. When it comes to wrestling with the weathering demons that haunt me, I pick and choose my battles based on economics.

Regards,
Bill C.
South Jersey

[Anonymous]

I don't think I will "Actively" weather mine as I did in N scale. I think the "natural" forces from running the trains in South Texas heat and grime, is enough to provide some natural weather effects. I guess that would be called "Passive" weathering?

[Anonymous]

Definately.I don't like shiny plastic.My wooden beer carrier I made has weathered beautifully on it's own after been left in the garden for a year.
Troy

[Anonymous]

It's a garden railway people! The stuff weathers itself! But seriously though, i voted no just on the basis of what the stuff is worth and i may want to sell it, though i hope not, down the line. Have a great day people :)

[Anonymous]

Mich Cal has a point about natural weathering. Left 20 odd MDC hoppers out in the weather for a year. They looked like they had been thru hell but not a single bit of damage. The only thing that I did discover was that Kadee couplers don't like to get wet. They rust on the pin and will not work again. That said I do like to lightly weather my dismals around the truck and pilots fuel tanks and such. Just lightly as it is the shop bosses habit that all loco's on the B&D R R are to be kept clean. Rolling stock...weeeell a different story. Grunge abounds with gay abandon.
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/soundgk/reefers1.jpg
Grant

[Anonymous]

SoundGK

Great web site (yours)! That is some great weathering! Keep up ther great work.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Wiliam.
Much appreciated. I actually need to update the B & D R.R. site as I have been a little slack. If I get time I will update it with a lot of new photo's of work progression and get rid of some of the older photo's on there.
Grant