Koert decided he is going to do American.Was a good call.You can buy trains from Atlas and Bachmann for about 1/5th the price of a Marklin loco.And it has eqcuisite detail.I prefer the Atlas ones.Very nice trains,and dirt cheap.

Anyways,he gave my Big Boy one look and said he wants a heavily weathered Dash 8.Now now now.....dont tell me to "heavily" weather a loco.Old monster has a heavy hand with paint on any given day of the week.

So,he wants to hook 3 of these to an ore train.So out came my brand new chalk weathering kit.And some fingerpaint and so forth.Lots of red dust i thought in me mind.

And boy,its fun weathering someone elses loco.No inhibitions.So i started the thing tonight.Basic train is done.Need to do the filling in and the wheels.Wheel arches and steps and so forth.

Here goes....poll is open....am i a dead man or not????

Sudibarba is going to have heart failure hehehehe.









Im going to finish it tomorrow and then take a picture of this and Big Boy together.I still want to try some chalk on BB.

I think you have to tone down the rust, with some dry brushing...

Hi Riekus,

The weathered Dash9 looks great. I agree that on your pics the trucks are rusted a bit too heavily. I have seen quite a number of prototype photos of US diesels, and it appears to me that the trucks were often soiled with a more or less black dirt, eventually oil and brake pad residues.

Your pics remind me that I have still to weather my brightly shining yellow UP PA-1 pair. Didn't dare that yet. Rather I would prefer to weather my Ferrari (if I had one)

Hans Martin

The weathering tecnique, from my military modelling experience, is made of oil paint washes, where the dark colours are heavily thinned to fill in and of light grey dry brushing to bring up detail, which is a brush wiped and almost dry, sometimes you pick up only the pigment wet the brush and then wipe to almost dry on a rag.
From what I understand you have used only the second one, because you are using a weathering powder, thus for example the rust should have been applied with a wash of say burnt sienna and then dry brushed toneing it down with light grey, if you see what I mean...

Throw your flash away, man. It's ruining your locomotives!

Ray

Hi all,
Monster! While I encourage weathering and never had a lok,structure,etc,that I didn't weather .One has to take into account not only the 'why's' of weathering but also the railroad,epoch and such.Now the UP has always had the image of a -clean- modern railroad,so your efforts as far as a UP lok maybe a wee bit overdone,IMVHO.Now,if this was a Southern Pacific lok,well,it might not be weathered enough!

Dr Dirt

Taken note Dale.Im going to try and mix a color now to put in there.I cant go for black as there was very little black(bar close to the engine grids and zorsts)on these locos.

Maybe a darker shade of grey?What you rate?

Hi all,
One example:



Dr D

Nice pics!

Ditto,and well done with the weathering; very nice indeed!