I picked this up today and need to weather it befoe I install it in place of the one I built.
I am not looking at a lot of weathering, something that makes it looks like it has been there a while, I figure the base should be concrete. I am going to try to maks a decal with ''Traintown'' on it and am toying with the idea of painting ''Billy Bob'' or something like that on it.
Any tips would be appriciated. Thanks, Mike
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I'm not clear about which of those structures is the water tower you're asking about. Assuming it's the one that's silver in color, what's it going to be used for? If it's domestic water supply for a town, it should have just enough weathering to kill any shine with a little rust on the rivets on the tank and support structure. Domestic water supply tanks are regulated pretty closely by both the state and the feds so they rarely get in very bad shape. The steps that Mr. B described will work just fine but don't go overboard. A tank supplying something like steam locomotive water got to be in a lot worse shape, especially toward the end of the steam era.