Scarpia

After watching Joe's videos, I was impressed with his weathering powders, and thought I'd give it a whirl. After collecting the materials, I made up three mixes, the light tan, light gray, and sooty black. I took a new box car, and went to town.

Before any powder

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a second coat of light gray

I'm not totally sold on this yet, the process is a lot messier than it looks like on the videos, and the results almost look a bit off to me. That could be due to my techique, and I also think I may need to switch to distilled, instead of tap water.


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jarhead

Looker

 From this end it looks good.

 

 

Nick Biangel 

USMC

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joef

For the record ...

For the record, I don't use ONLY the weathering powders when I weather, and many times I don't use them at all on cars. Just depends on what you're after. I also weather with a brush and acrylic paints. Watch the tunnel portal video again - notice I first weathered the portal with acrylics, then added a dusty final layer of weathering powder.

Most cars weather in streaks from running crud in rainwater, not blotches, so brush down on the weathering you've applied to this car with a damp stiff brush. If the weathering comes lose after it's dry, try hitting the car with some dullcoat to fix things in place. The dull coat will make the effect of the weather a lot more subtle.

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Scarpia

Damp stiff brush, got it.

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Most cars weather in streaks from running crud in rainwater, not blotches, so brush down on the weathering you've applied to this car with a damp stiff brush. If the weathering comes lose after it's dry, try hitting the car with some dullcoat to fix things in place. The dull coat will make the effect of the weather a lot more subtle.

Great tip, thanks! 

Bye the way, didn't mean to insinuate that was all you used - I simply wanted to try them on rolling stock as is to  see the effect.


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Scarpia

Final results

I hit the model this morning with a stiff damp brush, as Joe suggested, using vertical strokes. The end results?

I think pretty good! Note I have not used dullcoat on this yet.

Here's the before

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Thanks for all of your help, Joe.


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Scarpia

Another (successful) Test)

Another successful Test

Before

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BlueHillsCPR

Another Test

I'd say that was a success!  The weathering looks fabulous!  Mother Nature could not have done better herself!

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