Weathering help needed

[Anonymous]

I just built a wathers black gold asphalt plant and was wondering if anyone can give me advice on weathering it. thanx
cstoffel

[simon1966]

Modern Asphalt plants are suprisingly clean places. Our town was up in arms about one being built here. The community lost and the plant was built and 12 months later, you would never know it was here. I found this web site, with some photos of real plants http://www.stansteel.com/usedphotos.htm as you can see, the weathering can be quite light for a prototype look. A little bit of rust streaking and a light dusting of grime should do the job. When I have to weather a structure, I will usually do a google search to find some real life examples.

[nickl02]

Look back at last month's article in Model Railroader about weathering rolling stock. While not intended for buildings, I'm sure you could use the same techniques with the colors or tones that are on the structure in real life. You will probally have to expirement though, as I do not believe they make a dirty asphalt plant grey. LOL.

[roadrat]

I,m in the same boat cstoffel I just recieved the Tri-State Power co. from walthers and I,m trying to figure out how to weather and paint it.


bill

[UPJohn]

I start weathering by spraying on dullcote to make it 'flat'. Then you can add a wash of black paint diluted with rubbing alcohol. This gets into the crevices and makes details like grills more pronounced and look see through. You can also apply chalk or pastel with a stiff bristled paint brush (an old one!). Just beware you have seal chalks with a coat of dullcote or flat finish after you apply them and sometimes these can eat the chalks away. But to get the right effects on the buiilding you should look at photos of a prototype building of the same style.

Hope this helps a little

John