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dgoodlander: <br /> <br />The best way I have found for painting air intakes is to start with a layer of the darkest black I can find (such as "Engine Black"), making sure it gets right down into the background of the cast-in "opening". Then, I use the color for that part of the model itself, dry-brushing it on, so that it only reaches the actual "chicken wire" cover-material representation, the way the railroad would have actually painted it. The darkness of the black, visible through the lighter highlights, gives it depth, as though it is a real screened opening. On top of that, an even fainter dry brushing of some local dirt color would look good too, streaking down a little below it as well. As with any weathering, I would use vertical brush strokes, because accumulated dirt gets carried downward unevenly, forming vertical streaks. After all, along with the incoming air goes some suspended dust too. <br /> <br />David E.
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