I have a Union Pacific oxide red boxcar, I'm weathering. What is the best way to fade the paint like it is twenty years old. I'm going to put patches of new paint on it.
Thank you
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I have a Union Pacific oxide red boxcar, I'm weathering. What is the best way to fade the paint like it is twenty years old. I'm going to put patches of new paint on it.
Thank you
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Wash it with soft mixing white oil paint. Use turpenoid as a thinner so you don’t melt the plastic.
There was an article in MODEL RAILROADER (I think) some years ago where the author reproduced faded paint by first spraying the car with Dullcoat then misting the whole car with ISOPROPYL Alcohol. I have saved an electronic copy . I'll find it and post the issue and page number. Looked good but have to watch the amount of alcohol you apply, can get some exaggerated effects. Good thing is if you don't like it, just respray with Dullcoat and start over.
I'm sorry, just found the article. It's in RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, January 2001, page 62. Hope it helps.
I've never done it. I've read that some sand the paint lightly to produce what weather would do, using very fine paper.
The methods posted above might be better? You'd probably sand off some of the protruding details?
Weathering is an art to me. Something I want to learn.
Thanks..... I'm ok with doing road grime, but aging is different. What I want to do is have an older car with new repairs to the body.
This is something I've been wanting to try and the white wash was my guess at how to do it.
Buy a cheep car and experiment. I think it would be fun to try different methods. Keep us posted.
When I weathered my N scale equipment, I used a paint fade method similar to what is described in the link below.
http://www.theweatheringshop.com/dbrush.html
Here are some of the results after full weathering.
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