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Posted by Tjsingle on Sunday, August 31, 2008 9:18 PM
 Robby P. wrote:

Well Jeffrey, maybe you should buy some RBOX stock.  I am sure I'm making it go up Big Smile [:D].  They have always been a good seller.  I like the weathering range of them.  From rust buckets, or graffiti, to just the plain old dirty look.  There are sooooooooooooo many ways to do them. 

 

hey robby, you being a weathering guru and all, maybe this might be a cool project for ya!

More Autoracks leaving the yard by you.

I took this Picture here today in maryland, leaving the jessup yard. Has alot of cool features. You can zoom and all the way on a whatevery photo editer you have and get the car number.

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Posted by Robby P. on Sunday, August 31, 2008 9:13 PM

Well Jeffrey, maybe you should buy some RBOX stock.  I am sure I'm making it go up Big Smile [:D].  They have always been a good seller.  I like the weathering range of them.  From rust buckets, or graffiti, to just the plain old dirty look.  There are sooooooooooooo many ways to do them. 

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, August 31, 2008 9:02 PM
Now I know why I can't find any Railboxes at the LHS. Robby has them all.Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by Robby P. on Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:55 PM
Thanks.  I am STILL trying to get the Aggro gashes.  I still need to improve on areas.  The roofs, and ends of the car.  I think one of the biggest improvements I have seen is my graffiti.  It use to look horriable, and now I think much better.  Well I think it looks better Wink [;)]

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:49 PM
How do you do those cars robby!? they're about as realistic as one could possibly get.

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Posted by Robby P. on Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:47 PM

Here a few more Railboxs.  One was patched to a Georgetown Railroad.  Also a few roof shots.

 

 

 

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:10 PM
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Honestly Jeffrey, that looks awful.

It's supposed to look awful. The real car looks like it got hit by an ugly bomb.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:03 PM
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I'd love to see the picture of the prototype that inspired this model.

It looks like a drunk retarded person tripping on acid put on a blindfold before picking up a paint brush.

Here's the prototype:

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Posted by Daquan13 on Sunday, August 31, 2008 5:11 PM
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Not quite. The model looks nothing like the prototype.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 31, 2008 5:01 PM

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Posted by Daquan13 on Sunday, August 31, 2008 4:50 PM

 

I'd love to see the picture of the prototype that inspired this model.

It looks like a drunk retarded person tripping on acid put on a blindfold before picking up a paint brush.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 31, 2008 4:45 PM
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 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:

You want weathered? Get a load of this!

 

Honestly Jeffrey, that looks awful.

If you look at the prototype, it's probably cleaner.

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Posted by Daquan13 on Sunday, August 31, 2008 4:42 PM
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You want weathered? Get a load of this!

 

Honestly Jeffrey, that looks awful.

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Sunday, August 31, 2008 1:54 PM

Some N scale Pennsy cabin cars...

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, August 31, 2008 9:21 AM

You want weathered? Get a load of this!

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:59 AM

Well, here's a boxcar I weathered. It's better than what I've been doing, lol.

and here's a terrible job I did on an F7:

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Posted by marknewton on Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:51 AM
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Mark I take it your're not familiar with the way UP's challengers looked at the end months? That look is a pretty good composite of several challengers taken directly from Pentrex color DVDs of UP steam.


I am - I have those DVDs as well, plus some of the colour books published by Morning Sun. That's why I made the comment.

I think your weathered freight cars look terrific, but to me, the Challenger doesn't look anywhere near as effective. But that's only my subjective judgement, obviously you like the look of it, and so do many other posters. And you seem more than willing to share your methods and techniques, so it's all good!

All the best,

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Posted by AggroJones on Friday, August 29, 2008 4:11 PM
 Tom O-Scale wrote:

Aggro:

 

Any chance you could give us beginners a little more detail on how this look was achieved?

Have you tried anything with a brown/black instead of the acclaimed grey/black?

Excellent...   I am duly impressed.

Tom

 

Thanks. There were some shades of brown powder used on this.

 

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Posted by AggroJones on Friday, August 29, 2008 2:12 PM

 

 

 Thanks. The topic on how I did it is somewhere on this forum.

 

 marknewton wrote:
 oscaletrains wrote:




I love the way that steamer looks!

It looks to me like something on a dead line, or about to be scrapped. I'd call it artistic weathering, not realistic weathering.

Mark.

 

 

Mark I take it your're not familiar with the way UP's challengers looked at the end months? That look is a pretty good composite of several challengers taken directly from Pentrex color DVDs of UP steam. Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg] Realistic.

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Posted by oscaletrains on Friday, August 29, 2008 10:51 AM

allright we need to make this fourm in to a mini online clinic, I love all of these pictures of these wonderful locomotives and cars!

 

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Posted by marknewton on Friday, August 29, 2008 9:07 AM
 Tom O-Scale wrote:
Your 3989 locomotive is absolutely beautiful.  

I know John Allen always advised to go more grey than black on locomotives


Instead of following John Allen's obsolete advice, why not develop your own steam engine weathering technique?

It is my opinion that black or even grey does not have the right look of real locomotives but I love this brown.  It photographs beautifully.

And looks really artificial and unrealistic. I take it you haven't seen many working steam locos?

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:50 PM

The prototype (from Penn Central Online):

Car is N scale from Micro Trains.

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Posted by Tom O-Scale on Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:37 PM

Aggro:

Your 3989 locomotive is absolutely beautiful.  

I know John Allen always advised to go more grey than black on locomotives, but this is exactly what I have been looking for for a locomotive color.  This would be perfect on an old NE theme.

It is my opinion that black or even grey does not have the right look of real locomotives but I love this brown.  It photographs beautifully.

Any chance you could give us beginners a little more detail on how this look was achieved?

Also, I have seen a lot of your rolling stock but haven't noticed any other locomotives. 

Have you tried anything with a brown/black instead of the acclaimed grey/black?

Excellent...   I am duly impressed.

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Posted by marknewton on Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:30 PM
 oscaletrains wrote:




I love the way that steamer looks!

It looks to me like something on a dead line, or about to be scrapped. I'd call it artistic weathering, not realistic weathering.

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Posted by Santa Fe all the way! on Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:56 PM
Aggro, I just came across this topic, and LOVE your Challenger!! I've got a Big Boy that would look great weathered like that. Have you ever done weathering for $$? Maybe, I could send you my Big Boy? If not could you explain(in detail) exactly how you weathered your Challenger? Thanks in advance.
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:53 PM

How about this one?

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Posted by ProtoWeathering on Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:48 PM
 oscaletrains wrote:

the weathering god has arived

Oh yea! Aggro rocks!

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Posted by oscaletrains on Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:12 AM

 AggroJones wrote:
Okay Dan.





 

the weathering god has arived

I love the way that steamer looks!

 

 

 

 

 

personaly I have been doing weathering with powders, one of the things I will tell you all is great for weathering is artists charcoal, use at as a stick or powder to create black accents on your freght cars   

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Posted by Robby P. on Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:26 AM

I forgot about this topic.  The other computer has more pictures of my weathered  cars.  Heres a few I have on this comp.

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Posted by mtrails on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:57 PM

I have some experience now using Bragdon powders, and have produced a few decent looking jobs... I still use paint where necessary. I wreck more brushes applying powders than I do paint, and I find that certain weathering attributes can only be achieved by one or the other. I'm getting there...

Jeremy

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