Ilove it. Faintly noticable, but not overdone.
I'd love to do this with the chalks, but me and airbrushes tend to get paint everywhere and from every oriface except on the train
-Morgan
jacon12 Well, they look great, .... like they're made of iron and steel. One day I've got to get into air brushing, maybe buy an old engine that doesn't run to practice on Jarrell
Well, they look great, .... like they're made of iron and steel. One day I've got to get into air brushing, maybe buy an old engine that doesn't run to practice on
Jarrell
Thank you! You should give it a try! Back when I started, I picked up some junk freight cars first, just to see the effects of thinned paints and get used to the airbrush. Then I moved into engines. There are some good articles and books out there on the subject. Personally, it is my favorite aspect of model railroading.
Thanks all for the compliments! It's good to be back into it!
jacon12 Looks like you haven't lost your touch! And... your camera is fine, you just need to go into Aperture Priority mode and manually set the lens opening to it's smallest f/stop... such as f/8. That will greatly increase the depth of field in the photo, the area that is in focus. Set the camera on anything firm i.e. a book, table etc.... anything that won't move, and use the self timer to fire the camera because if you shoot by pressing the shutter release button you'll introduce a little movement that'll show up as unsharpness in the image. Presto!, sharp photos! Though they're pretty sharp now! Jarrell
Looks like you haven't lost your touch! And... your camera is fine, you just need to go into Aperture Priority mode and manually set the lens opening to it's smallest f/stop... such as f/8. That will greatly increase the depth of field in the photo, the area that is in focus. Set the camera on anything firm i.e. a book, table etc.... anything that won't move, and use the self timer to fire the camera because if you shoot by pressing the shutter release button you'll introduce a little movement that'll show up as unsharpness in the image.
Presto!, sharp photos!
Though they're pretty sharp now!
Thanks Jarrell - that's kind of what I did. I set the camera on the benchwork and delayed the shutter. I set it on "closeup" - I don't think there is any way to manually adjust settings on this little Kodak camera. When I bought it, I wanted something that I could carry in my pocket when going places - not exactly the best for this type of thing, but not bad...
cudaken Looks pretty darn good to me.
Looks pretty darn good to me.
... they sure do! Thanks for sharing these wonderful pics!
I hate Rust
davidmbedard Nice....now you need some water scaling marks on the boiler... David B
Nice....now you need some water scaling marks on the boiler...
David B
The K4 has some, but you can't see them in the pics. I usually do that, but was trying to get back into the swing of it.
Thanks! That's the look I was after - hard workin Pennsy! I saw an M1 in a book once that was pretty dirty, but the keystone was perfect - that made an impression on me, and I try to replicate that too... pride in the keystone even when there is no time to make the rest of the engine look great.
They both have a well worked look not a worn out ready for the scrap heap look some guys get when they tend to over weather things nice work.
Very nice. I like the look you gave them much better than the "down and out" look that I remember later in Pennsy's history.
Joe
Well, after about 8 years of not touching my painting and weathering stuff, I decided to weather a couple of my steam engines. I used to paint and weather all of my O-Scale trains, but after selling them off to switch to HO, I hadn't touched any of the new stuff. My camera isn't the greatest, but here are a couple pics of my Spectrum K4 and BLI M1b...
I'm happy with the results for my first time back at it in quite awhile...