Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
Ray Breyer
Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943
QUOTE: Originally posted by Trainnut1250 Chip, I know others will disagree but nothing beats the look of real wood. For a simple project take some scale 1 x 4s dye em in alcohol and shoe dye mix and glue em' down to the deck of a flat car....Tell me what you think then...I know there are a thousand ways to fake wood with plastic, but to my eye most of these methods lack the depth of the wood grain. Buy Kappler or Mt. Albert scale wood, not balsa or soft pine...... Check the deck on the flat car and the sides of the side dump gon, they are real wood......
QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse I pretty much model all wood cars. The trouble is they look nothing like wood. So this is where I'm stuck. I figure I can dirty them up. I figure I can rust them up. I figure I can get mud spray. I just can't get started because the base colors are not right and I worry that to get them right I have to strip the lettering. I have enough stuff waiting around for me to get my lettering butt in gear. So I get them stripped and painted and they still aren't weathered. But to be honest, I'm getting sick of looking at plastic cars on my layout. What do people do? What am I not getting?