Just a quick picture of two box cars, one out of the box brand new, the other with black and white tempra powered paint dusted on for ageing. I then spay it with a clear coat to set the powdered paint.
Rob, WTRR
A definite difference in the two!
Amazing what just a little dusting will do eh!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Before I got my airbrush, I used rattle can camoflage paint from Wal-Mart. I hold a piece of cardboard about 2 inches from the car, and lightly dust some light tan on the trucks.
Before
After
Marlon
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Hi Medina,
That is truly amazing weathering out of a can. It actually changed that boxcar from a Chicago & Northwester to a MOPAC.
Please give us your secret as how you did that, we would be willing to pay you for such a tip.
PS. It looks very good, {it even put trucks on for you}
Rob Sly, That tempra paint looks like it is another plausable option for us, what you have done also looks to be a fine start. I like alot of cars with just the brightness knocked off and / or little weathering, with a few heavily soiled cars thrown in the mix. After all we are paying a pretty good dollar for those factory paint jobs and now even the Mfgs are starting to do some subtle weathering.
Johnboy out..................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
robert sylvester wrote: Just a quick picture of two box cars, one out of the box brand new, the other with black and white tempra powered paint dusted on for ageing. I then spay it with a clear coat to set the powdered paint.Rob, WTRR
Hmmmm. I use tempra powdered paints to mix with plaster of paris to create scenery ground cover etc.
I use A.I.M. powered chalk products to weather my boxcar fleet. I've never heard of using tempera paints to weather???
You can also use the dry tempra paints in plaster for "zip texturing" scenery techniques. Check out Joe Fugate's website. He has a formula for different colors of earth and dirt tones using tempra paints mixed in a plaster base. One more note: Use the Crayola or Rich Art tempra paints only. The tempra paints that are labeled "dust free" won't work in plaster. Even though i'm not finished yet, a lot of the scenery in this picture was done with brown, red, and yellow dry tempra paints and plaster....chuck
What're you talking about?? They're both MOPAC... The secret is in how you shake the can.
Neutrino wrote:Awesome!
That was my reaction as guest editor of the "New Yorker", it's call satire.
Somebody posts something like this and Michaels stock shoots up.
(That was sarcasm.)
Chuck:
Great picture and I agree, in fact I mix the various powered paints with sand for example to varying colors of ground cover and it is very effective.
Allen Keller demonstrates his weathering concept with tempra powders on his tape of the Bluff City Southern I also mix grey and black with the sand for my ballasting, it just seems to be a cheaper way since I like big layouts. See below.
Robert, WTRR
Lots of uses in model railroading for dry powder tempera paint.
I used it to color foam and then to white glue and sprinkle on for texture for ATSF sulphur gondolas.
Usually, we don't want colors to be too saturated on model railroad, but elemental sulphur is one place you can't get TOO yellow.
I thought a tan-colored dry tempera would be good for simulating sawdust scattered around a sawmill. Somebody asked about this somewhere else thye last day or so.
Of course, I first learned about using dry powder tempera in McClanahan's classic scenery book, I think in the zip texturing article by the late great Linn Westcott.