Hi all, I made a video with some track weathering on Peco code 75 track:
watch?v=S12hP306o0s
Please ask if you have any questions.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S12hP306o0s)
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Not seeing it. A link to it would be better.
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You sure have a lot of patience.
Looks very good.
Wadda ya mean I'm old ? Just because I remember gasoline at 9 cents a gallon and those big coal burning steamers.
Very nice work! I'll be using your method on my own layout. Thanks. Mark.
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Nice. Maybe the best unintended advice here is to weather track to the sound of a Bach Concerto slow movement. It would help you take your time and be relaxed.
It looks like there is some sort of cap on the paint cup -- at first I could not understand why the paint was not just running out. Or is it just a bit of Saran wrap?
By the way it helps to study real track. You notice for example that rusty tie plates tend to also spread rust color to the wood tie as well as to the immediately surrounding ballast. This is something that can be modeled. And often, seemingly in particular at crossings, the roadbed softenes and mud is thrown up and ties move up and down under the weight of a train, pumping up lighter colored mud from the subroadbed to the ties, sides of the rails, and ballast. This too can be modeled.
One tip that I follow is to lightly oil the tops of the rails before painting. That makes it much easier to just rub off any paint that ends up on the railheads.
Dave Nelson
great! thanks for sharing, I'm close to start weathering my tracks so this is very usefull!
Always good stuff from you Graffen, thanks
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great video, I wish I would have weathered my track before I ballasted it. I dont think I can weather it now can I ?
Why can't you weather it? If its reachable there shouldn't a reason not to.. ?
JeremyB great video, I wish I would have weathered my track before I ballasted it. I dont think I can weather it now can I ?
You should be able to weather the top of the ties and at least one side of each of the two rails. If any paint does get on the ballast it is easy to just scrape off. You might want to "rough" up the ties a little with a wire brush or a used saw blade with a sideways movement from rail to rail, you want the roughed up area parallel to the edges of the ties. Just do a foot at a time or so and before long it will be done--it isn't a race so don't rush.
Wayne
Modeling HO Freelance Logging Railroad.
I enjoyed watching the video very much. It will be very useful for me in the near future thankyou rambo1...