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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by NS82 I took a trip to the local Michael's today and found India Ink and pastels for weathering rolling stock, but the only chalk I found was street chalk that the kids use. Is there some other type of chalk out there to use? How about 99% iso alcohol? We've got the 70% here at the house...do they sell 99% at Wal-Mart or Walgreen's???[/quote] I'm getting started with weathering for the first time, too. I was at Michael's the other night picking up some stuff, and found the pastel chalks in the same aisle as the india ink. With the colored pencils, markers, charcoal sticks, erasers, etc. I overlooked them at first, it's just a small package with 4 little chalk sticks. I think they had two kinds, a package of all black and a package of earthy tones. Oh, and I've seen the higher % alcohol out there somewhere, I think it had a red label instead of blue. I'm sure I probably saw it at Walgreen's. I also had a question about the alcohol. I diluted the india ink in 70% (which I think some people said they used, and we already had some in the house), but when I wash it on, it seems to dry in such a way that it leaves what looks like black waterspots. So I get blotches instead of anything that looks like real grime. Would this be alleviated by a faster drying (higher %?) alcohol? What's causing this?
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