MTL Weathered Cars - Suggestion

[ljudice]

Hey, not a complaint, just a suggestion for Shipsure... Perhaps others can support or refute it.

The weathered cars are getting better and better looking - with one exception...  I've been trainwatching a long time and you just don't see cars with their reporting marks deliberately painted out - and nothing added in their place.  I suspect some tecnique is being used here with masks to do the weathering - but if you can do grafitti - you can put new reporting marks over.

Honestly, I think this opens a ton of possibilities for this program, since restencilled "roller jobs" are incredibly common and I am sure there are lots of good MTL candidates...

- Lou

[seusscaboose]

another question... i haven't looked closely Joe...  so forgive me...   

are you weathering the gray marks (ballast dust) that is kicked up between the cars, directly over the rails, during a high speed run?

http://www.chicago-l.org/operations/yards/images/buena03.jpg

I am putting togther a coal drag and have seen this detail on the black hopper's i am weathering...

EP

[up1950s]

another question... i haven't looked closely Joe...  so forgive me...   

are you weathering the gray marks (ballast dust) that is kicked up between the cars, directly over the rails, during a high speed run?

http://www.chicago-l.org/operations/yards/images/buena03.jpg

I am putting togther a coal drag and have seen this detail on the black hopper's i am weathering...

EP

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[mcjaco]

[conrail98]

Just a blank image for me,

Phil

[seusscaboose]

yup
that's it...

the light gray on the end's of the cars as a result of the ballast kicking up between cars...

i have seen it on early 50's reefers as well...

olny food for thought...  didn't mean to hijack the thread

EP

[sizemore]

Just a blank image for me,

Phil

Its actually a grey car in the middle of a rain/snow storm.

The S.

[ljudice]

>>>  re: hijacking

No problem - I'm big believer in letting a discussion go where it goes!!!!

I mean on the Atlas forum they almost have TSA agents going over every post.   ;D

[Wardie]

I like some of the weathered cars I have gotten, and would have liked several of the other offerings, like the CN trainset just announced, if they had been purely weathered and not grafittied. I have no interest in grafitti on my models, as I find the real life application extremely disrespectful.

[wm3798]

I mean on the Atlas forum they almost have TSA agents going over every post.   ;D

Whenever I want to get frisked, they send me to the self-service aisle...