Airbrush on the car body and first pass on the wheels. Second dusting on the trucks and wheels was with rust colored chalks. Brian
Here's a new car I got from my LHS for $10. I've shortened it by 4 feet, I've repainted it, I've added some dry transfers, added new trucks and a new floor. This morning I weathered it using just chalks. I have a question: Do you guys like to 'fix' the weathering by spraying on dull coat or do you just leave it? Jim
RE: H0 Scale - What's On Your Workbench? I finally finish my e&c smoothside chip car with load. It's a golden west car. I need more of these in SP, wish someone would start making them again.
Painted and assembled windows in the Walthers Parkview Terrace background kit. Walls ready for installation as well as the stairwell.
This project was started a long time ago, but it ended up that I didn't have a place for it until I started another town. It's off the shelf and back on the bench. All I have to do is figure out the best way to light the interior. There are also rooms on the lower level that are detailed. The artist looks like he'll have an interesting day.
Dulcote or fixative will diminish the effect of the weathering. If you can leave it on the layout and not touch it, then no fixative. If you handle it a lot, you can use fixative or use an airbrush to get some of the same, more permanent, effect. Just my two cents. Nice looking car, BTW.
This is a Southern Pacific Historical Society special run kit. F100-70 TOFC flat car. made by Red Caboose, it is a very nice kit with not very good instructions. After looking at a lot of pictures I am slowly locating all the parts.
Thanks Flash, I thought as much. I don't use an airbrush and I do like chalks. I think I will pass on the dull coat and stuff. By handling the cars may indeed change and that is sort of like real life. I can always add additional chalk if needed. Jim
Only the deck has been weathered, and that with acrylics. I handle my H0 scale too much to weather with chalks. I do weather some N scale with chalks. If I have the air brush out and I am weathering H0 scale, I usually gather 2-3 N scale cars and weather them, too. I like to think a car is not ready for the layout until it is weathered. It is a very nice car. Also costs 40-50 US$ as a kit. Special run, though, so limited number.
Thanks Flash yes I agree I think I will be weathering all my rolling stick with my airbrush once I buy a new compressor
I don't heavily weather most of my equipment, but all is weathered to some extent, and I use chalks. An overspray of dullcoat will seal the chalk. here are few pictires of some equipment that was weathered over 20 years ago and handled quite a lot. I also use the dullcoat for just airbrushed weathering. Once I get set up with the chalks and airbrush, weathering like this only takes a few minutes per car.
My workbench has been mostly full of airplane parts lately, but I've squeezed a couple SCL/L&N pieces through the paint booth recently. I painted and old Athearn SW7 and I'm still workingon building a small transfer caboose to go with it.
I have just acquired some H0 scale switchers. This is an Athearn Blue Box SW7 with an NCE D13SRJ decoder installed. I used to pay someone to install my decoders but after learning a little about it I can do this one in about 45 minutes. No lights, though...not yet. I want to test it some today. This is one of a cow-calf pair.
A-178 Athearn NYC Pacemaker boxcar kit. Still have the red on the ends to do, and the roof to put on. Fitting up the Mantua couplers that are standard on the Tioga Pass and Yosemite. Out to finish it up, maybe tonight. Always loved putting these together...NOT a rattle-the-box kit. Glue and nail the wood roof, ends and floor together, nail in 8 vertical supports (4 per side), paint and fit doors and door guides, ladders, brake rigging, roofwalk, separate braces on the roof (11, I think). With the painting, what, three days if you're quick? HA! Another one to add to the list. Someday, I'll find more of these. I've got four 40' boxcars, four 50' auto boxcars (included in that is a Menzies NP auto box), and one 40' reefer. I've got the same number of SilverStreak cars, and 21 or 22 metal Varney cars, for sure. Add to that the cardstock ones, Megow, Comet, have some Ulrich and Walthers, even a Thomas tank (not the engine, a car). Dave
Right now I have my United 0-6-0 Omaha switcher on the bench. It receives its color livre and is acutally getting black. next will be some letters and numbers, and after that I will put some water stains, rust and dust. This will be the first engine which gets the imaginary Algoma & Wolff Creek Railroad flag ... I want to model my own Railroad situated in West Virginia during the roaring 1920s, when steel was king and fantasy (broker today talk similar ) but not efficiency was in the first line of managers. The Algoma & Wolff Creek RR is a railroad running from west virginian coal tipples down to the south using some tunnels through the ridges. The line is somewhat mediocre (comaprable to the interstate RR) but is during the modelled period willing to take over even neighbour railroads like the Norfolk&Western. The great depression and a collaps of one of the numerous tunnels in the wolff creek (in reality wolf creek, the name was altered to my RL familyname (just for the fun)) area made the railroad itself a candidate to be eaten up by other companies. But nobody had time and money in the early 1930s to put the A&WC RR back to life so everthing is now gone. scopewime (winfried Melder-WOLFF)
Here is my latest project. Two Tichy 40' 1928 flatcars. Fun to build. I like doing two at a time when I do these car kits. It doesn't seem as tedious as doing one after another. Numbering and letters to come. Jim
So just to show some progress on the A&WC RR 0-6-0 #10 engine (so called "track spreader") After put some paint to the smoke box and basic black. Next will be, putting some numbers and letters. so far scopewime
Today the small shifter made a good jump into oprational outfit... First it received the lettering of the "great, world known" Algoma & Wolff Creek Railroad. It has got the engine Number 9 due to the age of my daughter. Than it got some harsh stains and rust applications. And for the good end everything was covered with a mixture of rust&dust. Good Night