My first attempt at weathering a steamer

Looks good to my eyes, especially the beat up cement gon.

I think you did a nice job of weathering it. Nice looking train, too, which looks like a transfer job in my eyes.

Rusty

Nice job! Cool train!

Like the weathering on the entire train. Nice job. 

Dave

Nice job, I am finishing up the weathering my PRR B6 too!

Oh, yeah - now that looks like a train - though not all cars look that dirty at any one time - something I have to keep telling myself. Very good job - better than my typical work. Did you use an airbrush, weathering powders, some dry brushing? Combination?

2 things: the orange couplers on the first(?) hopper...and the apparent airbrushing truck frame "ghosts" on the rolling stock wheels...(been there).

No rod ghosts on the loco's drivers though - excellent, and a pain to work with.

Keep it up. Show us more.

I liked it, only thing might be to have some differing shades of weathering, since weathering is things like soot from the engine, dust, dirt, squashed insects, not to mention things like rust that runs (orange streaks).  I like your technique, looks better than when I tried it. When I was growing up my layout was next to an increasingly unreliable oil furnace, and some of my cars got 'weathered' by some soot just before it died. 

I also noticed the couplers on the first car.  Other than that, an excellent attempt.

Nice work.  We'll look forward to seeing more.

Fantastic!  Congratulations on creating a great looking train.  Thanks for sharing

Nice work on the weathering.  

I think that's an excellent job and very timely, as far as I am concerned. I've been busy weathering my MTH B&O Dockside, lately. 

Can you share some info on what paint you used, how you applied it and are you sealing it somehow? 

I'm using Polly Scale (Testors) Grimy Black.

Tom 

Very nice, not over done very convincing.

Hi guys, thanks for all the positive and constructive comments, in regards to the coupler on the 1st car, it's something I tried and yeah it's a sour thumb. I will fix it, same with the ghosting on the hopper trucks. 

My technique is simple, I use only paints and a combination of brushing, dabbing and spray painting techniques. No inks or dyes or chalk. Nothing against any of that I just haven't seen the need for it yet. I like the rustoleum camouflage earth tone flat colors in the spray can. I lightly spray the models then do the heavier work with brushes, paint sponges, even q-tips. 

I will post more videos in a couple days, working 16 hrs a day until Thursday. Thanks again everybody!

Wow. Can you give me some tips on what you used? That looks amazing!

Really nice work! Looks very realistic and not overdone.

Hudson J1e posted:

Really nice work! Looks very realistic and not overdone.

Thank you

Robert Cushman posted:

Wow. Can you give me some tips on what you used? That looks amazing!

I just used flat paints, a brush and occasionally spray paint. I don’t use chalks or airbrushes. IMO using a regular brush gets you a more textured look then an airbrush. I do this for all my weathering. 

Great weathering job on the B6!  Well done!!