Clive's Weathering Archive

Hi all, a couple of photos of my stock and my attempts to make them look a little more like they've earned their keep.

First off, a before-and-after of a second hand loco (cost me an amazingly cheap £20 back in about 2005)

Before:



Not a bad little loco, a reasonably good runner, but plainly a little toy-like.

After:



Probably a little over the top, but I was (and still am!) happy with it

 

Thanks, folks Here's another before-after of my Wismar Pig-Nose railbus. My first attempt with an air-brush. The paints used were acrylics (water-based, so easy to wash off if it all went horribly wrong!) from the Citadel range.

Before:



After:

 

Thanks all. Here's one of several wagons I've had a go at using various techniques - a second-hand 'Shell' tank wagon.

Before:



After a lethal cocktail of air-brushed grime (very light grey/brown), washes of mud colour, sponging on of rust colour, dry-brushing of a lighter rust colour, and finally a strategic sprinkling of iron powder sprayed with vinegar ( = real rust ), I ended up with this:

 

Thank you Ian, for your kind comments. More to follow, once I've got myself and my photo collection organised!

 

Coal wagon (from 2006) - I had acquired a couple of cheap LGB wagons from Evil-Bay, with a view to making them look like they were earning a living as coal wagons. The 2 open wagons immediately behind the Corpet-Louvet in the first pic are the ones:



After a good going over with black paint, rust washes etc, and finally a liberal sprinkling of crushed coal over the floor of each wagon (onto some PVA adhesive to hold it in place), they looked like this:



They looked ok as 'empties', but i was keen to have the option to show them as fully loaded. I came up with this idea: a foam insert (cut from a lump of upholstery foam), painted black, coated with PVA and then sprinkled with yet more crushed coal, which could be put in the wagon and removed as required:



When inserted into the wagon: voila, instant loaded wagon! Two for the price of one!

 

Thanks Mr Reidy! I say, give it a go with some acrylics on an old second hand wagon or coach, experiment with the different settings etc - it's a whole new world of modelling!

 

My Schoema diesel, weathered with successive applications of air-brushed 'grime'.

Before:



After:



I hope to use this loco for my initial experiments in adapting to battery power in the coming months.

 

Thanks both

I have a bit of a back-catalog of similar subjects to get through, which hopefully I will share here in the not too distant future.

 

I posted this pic in the 'resurrection' thread, to show the bridges as they were back at the beginning of the line's development:



I managed to weather the wagons in the train, so that they looked a little more to my 'unkempt' tastes...





I was pleased with these when I first did them, but as I look at them now I am conscious of some areas where I can maybe improve the used-and-abused look. So the to-do list just got a little bit longer!