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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones You don't employ conventional weathering techniques? You use the car as a canvas, and just reproduce the image in the photograph? That is incredible. Honestly, I've never thought of doing it like that. Painting a picture the real freight car on the model. Wow. [/quote] You make it sound like I'm stretching your imaginations. When I see most weathering techniques - it strikes me as simply making a clean car "dirty". Sure, modelers undoubtedly use real photos as inspiration.... but I actually try to replicate the real car by painting on the rust spots and streaks individually. It is painstakingly slow... but the results are more appreciated. Here is one of the collage photos which features an enlarged view of some of the rust. As you can see - up that close it is not that convincing. But you can see that I painted the rust. Yet from a normal viewing distance of say, 1 - 3 feet, the effect looks just right. I like to think of it as stage makeup. Like when you see a female ice skater or ballerina up close - their makeup is heavily accentuated - but it looks crisp at a distance. [img]http://www.mellowmike.com/FR8_Cars/SP490284_C.jpg[/img]
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