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Noah, <br /> <br />I have an airbrush, but I haven't used it yet, what I weathered was a Red Caboose flat car. I dry-brushed a mix of antique white with black (didn't have any reefer gray around) on the deck to make that look like the grayed wood underneath the paint, then I gave the whole car a wash of black. As soon as I learn how to use my airbrush, I'll spray paint the underbody and trucks grimy black, then I'll airbru***he wheelsets and couplers rust color. As I said though, this was the absolutely first time I weathered anything, and except for the car coming out a little too dirty looking (since it's lettered for Illinois Terminal I could say that it was in steel mill service in Alton, IL or St. Louis), I'm satisfied with how it turned out. I have photos of it, only they're on a film camera, and the trucks aern't wethered in the pics, plus I don't have any wheelset, couplers or air hoses on the car yet. Sometime when I start building a layout and I have a good reason to use up a whole rool of film, I'll take photos of the entire car. (Plus whatever else I'll have done by then...) <br /> <br />P.S., I just brush-painted over the repack dates, but after I got done weathering you can't tell unless you know where I painted them out.
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