Nice job Aggro. I am not into modern railroading, but that tank car sure looks real the way you did it. I even learned a thing or two. Thanks.
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.
Thanks. I would've had more pictures of the later steps but my camera's memory chip was fudged and I lost those and a few dozen other pix.
I always spray future, non thinned, at 15 psi with an airbrush. 15 is enough to get a even smooth finish.
"Being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses"
EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION
http://community.webshots.com/album/288541251nntnEK?start=588
Cool! I was wondering how you faded your letters. Keep em comin!
Aggro,
I always love your before and after photos. Gotta love the Bragdon Chalks.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
AggroJones,
On the tutorial! Outstanding photos make it so much easier to understand and see what you're talking about. I have a question....How did you apply the coat of Future Floor Polish? Airbrush?
Thanks again,
Don Z.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
Thanks for the tutorial, Aggro!
JaRRell
Here we have an Atlas 33,000 tanker brand new that I'll go through step by step or somthing like that.
This is the before shots.
FIRST! We come in with a little light sanding with wet 1000 grit sand paper to some of the lettering. WET.
Then we airbrush laquer thinned Floquil white over the lettering to further fade them.
We're gonna take a lil burnt umber gouche, and burnt sienna water mixable oil paint and cross them together. An 18/0 liner brush, that is used to the streaks and a little rust action happening. After that I sealed it with future floor wax. Thats about it for now.
M'kay after the floor wax was put on I used graffiti decals for some of the tags. Micro-sol treatment, yadda, yadda....lightly future over them to seal the edges.
Then I come in with a first grime wash, made of watercolor, chalk, and gouche. hit the cracks and general body. And work it vertically with a q-tip.
Next it was Testor's dullcoted, and dried a while. Then I came in added more graffiti, touched up the rust some. Then came a dusting of Bragdon Enterprises weathering powder. Some gray, little tan, little white.
A few airbrush touches and some under body dust kick up. There it goes. The end.