More Lee Turner Weathering Techniques

Thank you Gene.  Lee is a talented guy.  I have used a lot of his techniques with great success!  My main difference is sometimes I get lazy and start with a vallejo wash.  

Gene thanks. Please explain what 'highly thinned' is; 50% thinned, greater, lesser?

Also what is 'mean green'.

Thank you.

Chris

Mean Green is a household cleaner. You can get it at Home Depot.   You can also use any household cleaner, such as 409 or the Orange stuff.  Even Windex.  But I generally use MG.  The principle behind this is that Mean Green will strip acrylic based paints, but not the factory applied solvent based paints.  

For "highly thinned," I have used a 50/50 mix of color and clear flat, then cut with about 4:1 with water.  In other words 10/10/80  paint/clear/water. Lee, of course, might use something different

By the way, that masking technique he developed really works well.  And its very easy

Here is another link decribing Lee's weathering techniques:

http://forums.railfan.net/foru...um=1164646326;start=

In the meantime, thanks Gene for posting this!

This is excellent stuff. I have done some very light weathering on the occasional model, but getting into the seriously done treatments is a bridge I haven't felt like crossing. However there is no arguing the appearance value of well done weathering such as Lee demonstrates.

The trouble with model railroading is that there is always something to do...and one has to divide their hobby time up effectively. Recent retirement has helped tremendously....

Bob

Here is one of Lee's weathering jobs on one of my OMI Hawker Siddeley 4050 grain cars, some at the March Meet may have seen it on Erik Stott's table, needless to say very happy with the end result. 

Here is a Yoder LV container car painted and weathered by Lee Turner for me earlier this year.  It's one of my favorite cars on the railroad.