Atlas Pratt bridges...

They are a pain to build but great when there finished , I painted some satin black on mine be fore  I installed it later on I will weather it .

Hi

Good luck with your bridge.

 Just a tip. When I put my bridge in place I wound up taking the sides off to get around to do secerny with out braking the bridge sides. It was a pain tring to work over it.

Mr. Hah,

Please pass me some tips on weathering---yours is looking very grand.  

Thank you,

Brad

Interesting thread. I enjoy the look of a string of freight cars, especially tankers passing through a bridge. My favorite bridge on my layout is a single track Pratt. As far as weathering, I do not have a compressor and paint sprayer so I try my hand with spray cans. Depending on the car or building I usually work very far away until I can see subtle signs.  For what it’s worth, I preferred to keep my bridge pretty much black with only subtle weathering.  I removed the track and the sides.  Then I painted everything except the track and ties flat black to get rid of the plastic gloss and give it a little texture.  Then I sprayed it with very light mists of gray primer, rust red primer and brown camouflage.  To enhance the rivets I used some yellow and rust chalks.  For the track, I used brown camou for the ties and used rust and brown markers on the sides of the rails.  I used a little more chalk and weathering on the large I-beams.   Unfortunately my photos do not show much but compared to the raw kit it looks better.  Hope to see your work soon.