Looks really good. One dumb question? Did you use an airbrush or did you use the tried-and-true methood for weathering with a paintbrush (aka, drybrushing)?
As for that log car, I'm glad to see it still runs. I havn't seen anything yet of that same vintage that still runs (In model railroading scales that is) Glad too see it's in good hands.
davidmbedard Everything looks great. Can I make one suggestion? The tags on the last tanker are too high up. David B
Everything looks great. Can I make one suggestion? The tags on the last tanker are too high up.
David B
I think the taggers were too high........on something! Hehehehehe....
Thanks David!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Nice weathering Ryan and Robby.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Nice tank car there Robby!
I still need to practice my rust spots and I really like those on your tank car too! Thanks for the tips on rusting.
Nice looking KCS hopper. I wish I had something like that pulpwood car. Thats something you can keep passing down.
On the tanker. Maybe you could add some rust pits. You can make some rust pits by using some oil paints/water mixable paints with some weathering powder. Heres a shot of what I am talking about for a idea. I think they look good.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
This past weekend (01/30/09 to 01/31/09) I made my first attempt at weathering rolling stock using acrylic and enamel paints, Bragdon weathering powders and Testers Dullcoat. The hopper is an Accurail kit and it took about 4 hours from initial kit building to finishing up the weathering. This is an Airslide Center Flow (ACF) Kansas City Southern (KCS) hopper that was put into service in 1994 and is showing it's 15 years of use on the rails. Here is the before shot...
The image below is a High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) and it is meant to approximate an early morning splash of orange sunrise.
This is the After shot... Here are a few more images with some other weathered rolling stock too...
I also started a renovation on my grandfathers old Rock Island Pulpwood car. This piece of rolling stock is the only known surviving piece from his old HO layout from the 1950's, he took it down in the mid 1960's and donated it to a local Boy Scout troop in Alexandria, LA near where he lived in Pineville, LA. The decals had long since fallen off and it has some peeling paint and such, so I took the load off and sanded down the peeling paint, removed the trucks and repainted the shell. The pulp wood load is a bunch of old wooden matches that were cut to about 5' to 5 1/2' HO scale lengths and stacked and glued. I'll post some photos of the renovate and after when I get em sorted and loaded online. This is the Pulpwood car before I started the overhaul... My grandfather had this piece on display on top of his dresser in his bedroom for years, I guess it was his only reminder of days gone by.
And here is a BADX anhydrous ammonia tank car with a few tagging's on it....
Looks like the outlaws caught up with that one...
And thanks for checking out my work, really appreciate your comments too! Thanks!