I am weathering one of my Milwaukee Road rib sided bay window cabooses. For this short project, I am working from the wheels up! Here is the starting point: I still have some work to do on the wheels, but I think you can get the idea. What do think? Click here for photo credit.
Looks like that has turned a few miles. Perhaps bounced through a few places with poor drainage, and it's pumping up mud. Boxcab E50
haha... can you say NMD? :mwacko: When I post the prototype photo, it will all make sense. I may work the color a bit more as well. Oh, and the camera flash bleaches things out a bit when shooting marco. (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!... lol )
How do you get the texture on the paint? It really looks like rust. Same with the handrails on your engine. -Mark
I think he's keeping that secret... Maybe a little bit of silica or something is mixed in the paint to give it some texture? I have seen one of these in person when I was like 4 years old or something...been along time.
Haha... no secrets here. I used acrylic paints and pastel chalks for the texture. :thumbs_up: Silica will generally be out of scale to produce subtle textures in HO scale.
Vielen Dank! Time to dust off the old Art tackle box. The pastels are going on 20-30 years, but they still work. -Mark
30 years old? They probably won't work- You'll need to install a faster processor and more RAM.... Boxcab E50
Nope. No updates. I've been working on motive power like a mad man. Glad you posted here. I just finished 2 more SD45s, so now is a perfect time to revisit this project!
Your wish is my command. I give you my version of a Milwaukee Road "Branch Line Betty." Here's a couple of teaser photos. I'll try to shoot it outside in good sunlight tomorrow.
Thanks, I think... I think I pulled off the look near the embargo. At least on the NMD, they sure were a haggard buggy. The hastily plated over windows that didn't even get paint slapped on for protection. Just a quick weld job and then left to rust.
Yup. That was a compliment. Those views started me wishfully thinking about days too long in the past. Hard to grasp that it's thirty years now. Seems like mere minutes since those last days, a million years ago. Boxcab E50
Ah, ok. Thanks Ken. Yeah, how sad that it has been 30 years. The remnants are getting more and more difficult to find. Glad that there is a group who continues to keep the memories alive.
