Basic Weathering, a Pictoral Guide

[MilwaukeeRoad]

Great Job! I'm going to try this on one of my MILW boxcars sometime.

[GUB]

Nice work. Do you use the same method on buildings?

GUB

[Anonymous]

I just bought the same pack at Hobby Lobby last week.  Very nice tutorial.  I've been looking for something like this.  What do you recommend for adding rust?

 

Jeremy

[ProtoWeathering]

Those little chalk squares are OK for structures, but you need a little more something if you're going to handle those cars at all.

Weathering powders have an adhesive mixed it to them that makes them close to perminent. I use AIM Powders, but there are others such as Bragdon and I think Bar Mills sells a set too. Don't waste your money on chalks that will disappear after you've sealed them. All the powders are listed in Walthers web-site. Just Search for weathering powders. 

Anyone who wants to learn weathering needs to get over to

http://www.modeltrainsweathered.com/gallery.htm Then click on the flashng Yellow sign. You will have to register, but it keeps the spammers out.

Sorry, but chalks just don't cut it when you need to go heavy. 

Imagine how much chalk you would have to use for these four. AIM Weathering Powders, Dull*Cote, and Microsol was used for about 95% of these cars.

Hi Mike! 

[ProtoWeathering]

A bump for mike.

[AggroJones]

Actual chalks work great in certain washes. Also mushed into oil paint. But thats pretty much it. 

[fsm1000]

Someone gave me a link to this and I just had to say wow, great job. Thanks for the incentive :)

[troynm]

Great mini-article. One thing I didn't understand was the first step using "soot". Was that with a black or dark paint or chalk?

[MrKLUKE]

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[Robby P.]

I used the chalk powder's from Wal-Mart and they got thrown in the trash.  I didn't like how they worked at all.  Even when I dullcoted they disappeared.  Now the powder's in the other picture's worked pretty good.  I use Bragdon, which work real good for me, and other's use AIM powder's.  Also, so people don't like using the spray can cause you can't control the spray.  Like Aggro said, some oil's work real well.  You can see a BIG difference with using oil's. Once you start trying weathering you will find thing's that will make a huge difference (tooth pick's, sponge's, etc).  Not trying to be mean, but I don't want people to just get some powder's and try weathering.  I did and wasn't happy.  You might wanna spend some money and get some decent powder's, oil's, air gun.  Just my 2 cent's.  

[Wingnut15]

Wow!!  This looks great.  But what is "LHS" and where did you get it?

[secondhandmodeler]

Wow!!  This looks great.  But what is "LHS" and where did you get it?

"LHS" is Local Hobby Shop.