Top o' the morning to everyone I'll start out by stating that I'm by no means an expert and this is my first attempt at a tutorial. It's brief but the method is fairly self explanatory. (Blind leading the blind we like to say) This is by no means a new idea. I used Gary's excellent tutorial on weathering along with some other sources on YouTube and online. I was looking at weathering powders and found them to be quite expensive. I don't have a lot of spare money at the moment with a new house being built so this may help those in the same boat. What you'll need: 1. Cheap artists soft pastels - I found these at a discount store for about $18. This is a huge pack and gives you such a huge palette to use. Don't accidentally buy waxed pastels or oil pastels! 2. Paint brushes of various sizes. Mix of soft and stiff 3. Isopropyl alcohol 4. Mortar and pestle or tiny novelty grater. Preferably both, start with the grater, transfer to pestle and grind up as fine as possible. 5. Matt finish clear coat - I used Boyle Matt Finish 5. Wagon/loco/goat enclosure - whatever you want to grubby up All up about $45 worth of gear sans donor vehicle. Some of you will have the matt spray already in stock which was about $17. I imagine you could do upwards of 100 vehicles or more with this lot. A little goes a long way. Step 1 Take tiny novelty grater and make two to three strokes of the pastel to get about 1/4 teaspoon of pigment. From here, decant into small containers like I did or grind up in the mortar for finer powder as you require it. Mix the colours up and experiment! (apologies for sideways photo) Step 2 Lightly spray your donor with Matt spray. Take off wheels and couplers first. Step 3 Watch Gary's weathering video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Sxqm2wzmg Follow along with the master. End result This is a cheap wagon that doesn't represent anything prototypical for my layout. It's likely to become that forgotten wagon in the yard with overgrown weeds coming from underneath, or it might become the refueling point for the loco yard where I'll remove the bogies and plant it track side. I like that its got miss matched bogies and it looks well and truly stuffed now! I'm fairly happy with the result as its my first time. I was a bit heavy handed around the seeping decals now that I look at the photo - might go fix that up now. I need to find a softer brush for streaking the sides as some of the brush strokes are visible. Hopefully someone gets something out of this! Cheers Reidy
Thanks Toto. It's a good break from track work and wire in tube. Its driving me nuts, I want to get to the fun stuff! 4701 has been assigned to yard work at Tumut. In between shunting to the paper mill, the crew find the time to reposition a NODY open wagon into the goods shed siding to be loaded with replaced components from the hydro electric turbines at Blowering Dam. The NODY has come up great. Need to work on light weathering now. Reidy
Nice work and tutorial Reidy. May also be worthwhile looking at Grey pastels as well - Hobbycraft (in UK) do a value range of 12 (I think, my box is packed away somewhere safe ), with shades from white to black and 10 shades of grey between them. These cost £2. Found the link - I did remember correctly http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/hobbycraft-assorted-soft-pastels-12-pack/572099-1000 Paul
Good one Reidy, Nicely done and well presented..... The pastels can also be used to weather buildings. Scrape it on in the same way. Brush it into the surface of the building. Blow off the excess and then seal it with hairspray. http://www.clickGormo.
Reidy, looking good The first one is always the hardest, not that the weathering is hard it's overcoming the I could make a mess of this mind set, that's hard, now "your" broken in, nothing will stop you now. For your light weathering start with colours very similar to the models paint colour to give it that faded look. Or For the dirt and grime the light grays and sandy colours are good for toning down and to give that roadbed dust accumulation, on a not long from service loco or rolling stock. Congrats on taking the plunge. Remember "Google images" is your friend for weathering inspiration. http://www.click
