Best Of Adventures in Weathering

[chicken45]

I like the 455 car. Looks like it was road hard and put away wet. What paint are you using for your wash?

The same I have been using on all the other stuff. W&N Ivory Black.

So I cleaned things up a bit around lunch time today.


Then Tom found an image for me so since I now had a proto photo, I cleaned up some more.



What's next?
I'll dig in tomorrow with a smaller brush for additional cleanup. Then I'll give it some dusting of a little brown.

[seusscaboose]

Nice

[chicken45]

After some touch up (I had some gravity defying streaks), the car got some mud brown love.


Prototype photos show the bottom half of the car a bit dirtier.

I tried to remove some of the dust on the top half of the logo and it didn't go as well as I had hoped. I think another very thin spray will make it all better. Here are the "learning exercises."

[Missaberoad]

Looking good Can you elaborate on your treatment of the trucks?

one detail that I notice on alot of reefers is the paint being "cleaned" off by high traffic in the ladder area.
might make the model pop

http://www.shorpy.com/node/146?size=_original#caption
http://www.shorpy.com/node/3331?size=_original#caption

[Santa Fe Guy]

The loco below is one of three I am painting and weathering for a good friend. For the body shells I am using Mr Hobby paint for the first time and it is not too bad to use. The walkway and handrails has been painted using Humbrol Matt enamel as it is the closest we can find to the FNM paint scheme. I am disappointed that I can still see the outline of the MS decal even though it has had a coat of Dull Cote. I have lightly washed the shell and walkway with Tamiya Panel Line Paint and around all of the doors and door pulls. The grills have had a few coats of the same product however I have used Black and Brown blend while wet. The top of the body shell is getting a light wash of brown at the front and on the cab roof.
So far I'm happy except for those decal edges which I have not seen in previous jobs.
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Rod.

[mcjaco]

Are you just cleaning it up with ISO?  I went way to heavy on a hopper just now, and need to lighten it up....a lot. 

[chicken45]

Are you just cleaning it up with ISO?  I went way to heavy on a hopper just now, and need to lighten it up....a lot.

Yup. 70% but TEST in a small area so it doesn't get bleached. Maybe only the 90% does that.

[mcjaco]

Thanks.

One of those weeks where nothing is coming out right at the workbench.

[chicken45]

Looking good Can you elaborate on your treatment of the trucks?

one detail that I notice on alot of reefers is the paint being "cleaned" off by high traffic in the ladder area.
might make the model pop

http://www.shorpy.com/node/146?size=_original#caption
http://www.shorpy.com/node/3331?size=_original#caption

@Missaberoad, the truck technique is the same as earlier in the thread: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=35130.msg410975#msg410975

Only difference now is that I added mud brown.

Great eye with those ladders! I have some photos of this car that does not have them, but it is something I will be doing in the future on other cars. So, thanks!

[chrismears]

That's great! Thanks for the help, Bryan.
I do want to make it clear that I hadn't seen any reefers look like this in my limited research, either and was not going for how it turned out.
I think most of the time we just see the end result of weathering. I want to document the struggle along the way and think this is a great example.

Hi. I just found this thread thanks to the link you provided in the recent N scale forum's Saturday update.

I love the weathering on this reefer. Cars like the one you worked on were the backbone of our potato-hauling fleet here on the Island and comprised most of the cars you'd see on the Island during the harvest (i.e. into the hundreds). By the time CN was leasing large fleets of orange MDT and NRC cars, they were nearing the end of their service life. That combined with the conditions during the late fall and early spring (think mud, snow, rain...) made for some very dirty cars. I don't have any photos readily at hand but you can see some thumbnails that Phil Mason provided showing these cars in Charlottetown in the mid-1970's in this thread on Trainorders.com:
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,1948825

Well done work. Thanks for sharing it.


Chris

[seusscaboose]

sounds like you hit the nail on the head Josh!

[chicken45]

All right all right enough of this mushy stuff LOL

@seusscaboose thanks for the practice cars! I'm glad it worked out. Can't wait for you to see them.
@bbussey and @tom mann thanks for the advice and photos. I am privileged to be here among the Titans of the hobby and excited to interact with you all.

I'll post some final pics of this tonight and figure out what to work on next.

[DeltaBravo]

Josh,
 Where are the final shots?

[chicken45]

[seusscaboose]