reasearchhound I find it ironic that although I spend my working days trying to make houses and such look nice and “new”, I typically weather the heck out of my newly built HO structures.
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My wife made a similar observation about me. I will spend hours making sure everything is perfect on a household project, then go spend hours destroying a perfectly good model.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
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Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
I guess it was a successful resurrection because everyone has an opinion about weathering. If you don't have an opinion, you should spend time in the Show Me Something thread, where some of the regular contributors weather and some don't.
The search function in this forum is a challenge. Sometimes you can't even find your own, old posts, even though you remember the title and some of the exact words you used.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I do some very basic work to all pieces of rolling stock/locomotives prior to placing them into service:
Wheels will get a light coating of Apple Barrel Nutmeg Brown if roller bearing equipped, plain bearings get a bit of grimy black.
The back side of the outer pair of stock wheelsets and axles get nutmeg brown as well. The inner pair will be completed after resistors are added for detection.
Led lighting and decoder installation as applicable.
Sergent couplers.
Truck sideframes/drivers get a light (or possibly heavy) of rust/dirt/sand color.
As already mentioned I am a newer member and as such I have had limited experience with the site’s search engine. However, I am a moderator for a forum for professional painters and the search engine we have there sucks big time. I always advise our members that they do a Google search that has links to our forum if they actually want to find anything.
SeeYou190 My wife made a similar observation about me. I will spend hours making sure everything is perfect on a household project, then go spend hours destroying a perfectly good model. Kevin
Kevin
Surely your wife should be able to understand and appreciate a good weathering job makes the model more realistic. I know my wife does. A realistic weathering job is a far cry from destroying it. Now some weathering jobs are done such that they really do wreck the model and decrease it's resale value. Seen enough of those to give me pause.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
I said everything I wanted to say on the subject 9 years ago, and my views have not changed. Those interested can just go back to page 1 and read my thoughts.......
Sheldon