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There are five basic types of weathering:
Dust, Rust, Mud, Dirt w/ Oil & Grease, and Chemical (dry or liquid) spillage. Here's a few starting tip for your first hand at weathering: *Many times it is much more fun to start your ideas with a camera and a color printer after few hours of rail-fanning! If that is not convenient to you the internet has literally thousands of very nice images of actual locomotives, cars, and structures of all kinds that are weathered. Once you have some thoughts or pictures of detailing that you would like to apply to your model consider the helpful color selections below to enhance your creativity! You may also want to think about having some special artist brushes. They are essentially- tools that can make those certain effects much easier to do. We have chosen to carry a few styles of good quality artist brushes that we feel can produce almost any effect with better results much easier! Artist Brushes
Now for some basic weathering ideas that relate to these colors...cars can be given a thin wash of a
very light
brown color. Let's try
Dark Buff.
The wetter the better- add some alcohol to dilute dye if you wish a quicker
drying time, or water for more time. This represents general
dust
and dirt.
Start on the top and go straight down the sides leaving streaks to represent
rain running down and off the sides of the car. This is the simplest type of
weathering and you can see the difference immediately. It will dull that new
car shine and bring out the details of the car which can be otherwise hidden
with a glossy factory paint finish. Notice how all the rivets and grooves
show up and stand out!
Rust is wet brushed onto the roof tops and streaked down the sides in moderation. Heavier rust detailing goes on bolt heads, edges of steel, ladder steps, chains, and couplers and trucks.
Clay Dust (has a bit more green color than Dark Buff) and often times Limestone residue is kicked up or pulled in from rain and wind onto the ends and sides of cars and trucks. A Limestone color is used as spillage on covered hoppers which haul minerals and cement type loads.
Black Grime or Dirt and Oil are dirty black spots around mechanical parts such as refrigerated units and on TOFC fifth wheels, and as diesel exhaust carbon. It is also spillage on tankers and on some flatcars including piggybacks.
Rust / Dark Buff accents on top side Clay Dust / Dirt & Oil on the trucks and wheels
Use the Rusty Rails Painter tool with 350-110 foam rollers to apply Joe's Custom Weathering Dyes to cross ties!
(CLICK ON ARROW NEXT TO GALLERY TO ADVANCE OR GO BACK )
The dyes are much thinner and offer better transparency than paint! When dry the cross tie still shows the molded raised wood fibers' detail! (CLICK ON ARROW NEXT TO THUMBNAILS TO ADVANCE OR GO BACK )
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