Newly weathered Fastrack

Looks awesome Luis and like your signal!

LG,

   Outstanding job on the weathering of your FasTrack, looks fantastic!

Real nice looking layout!

PCRR/Dave

To: LG, Love the Signals.

 

The layout isn't a layout without Signals.

 

Nice JOB..............  

LG

 

     Excellent start. Just a suggestion, you may want to bring the ballast up onto the ties along the side roadbed. A very thin layer will cover quite adequately. Attached are some pics which may help.

 

Ray

Ray thank you for the suggestion and the pics.  I think for now I am going to take a little break from scenery work to run some trains.  When I get a little more ambition I will go back and bring up the ballast. 
   I agree it does look better with the ballast up to the edge of the ties��.

      

Huge improvement!  Looks great.

 

Art

Very nice job.

LG,

 

Wow, Does not even look like fastrack anymore!

LG,

 

 As others have said, it looks great.  Now I have something with which to base my amateur attempts with my Fastrack.

 

I decided I wanted to reduce the "in your face" grey of the track on my new "Simplicity in 6x8" layout I'm building.

 

 I did a little test just to see if I liked the concept.    Now that I know I do, I will adjust the colors and methods.

 

Here's a pic of the test. It's simply some Testor's rattle can earth and brown paint.

Oh, despite the look, the tops of the rails are not covered

 

 

 

 

Luis (and Ray) - good job(s). Fastrack is a good product, but drops off my 'scope because

it's still "a nice toy" rather than "a decent representation" (like GarGraves). It's one of those "missed it by THAT much" things.

 

But - sure looks good in those photos. The added ballast would be a nice touch, especially in

close-up areas. 

 

These photos make me wish that Lionel had gone a little farther with this track system;

I love the low rail (as low as Scaletrax, I think), but the "U" shape still puts me off.

If Lionel had done even a -bit- of proper rail shape, I think that it would do fine (after

some painting). I really like the switch stand lights/indicators - they remind me of the PW

lighted switches without the swiveling lighted Monster Head.

 

Your efforts look very good.  

The U shape "minimizes wheel wear".

Nice work!!! From Toy to model......

Toy is not bad....just different! 

Great job LG!

Looks great LG.  Those WS Pens are pretty good.  

EscapeRocks
Thanks for the kind words but, By all means I am not an expert at weathering, this was my first attempt but I too did a bit of experimenting with color combinations and processes until I was satisfied with the results.  You are well on your way to getting rid of the in your face grey.  The forum has a great wealth of information on this subject.  Keep us posted on your progress.

Looks great, and bringing the ballast up would be the finishing touch for some future time. 

Here's my first section of the outer loop done.   Rustoleum Camouflage Earth Brown.  Right after spraying I wiped the tops of rails off with soft cloth and lacquer thinner.

 

I personally like the way the track color now fits in more with the rustic look of my simple layout.

 

 

You did some very nice work,  and it makes such a huge difference.   The look of Fast Track is improved 100% by weathering IMHO.

haven't weathered mine yet but I have done the whole painting the ballast on bridges and such it does make a huge difference in the way it looks. once my layout is built and working it will be a long process of doing the weathering 420 ft of track but from the pics it will be well worth doing. I created a photo tonight with one of the photo's I took of my layout last night and edited the background on it I bet the photo would look better if my rails were weathered here's the photo.

 

 

Great job, now run some trains and relax!

The track looks good.

Gentlemen,

   Now if Lionel is doing smart business, they will use Rich O and others FT Weathering idea, producing their own Weathered factory made FasFasTrack, with correct ballast.  Resale of FasTrack would be staggering, and serious profits would be made for the Lionel

company.

PCRR/Dave

I tried using the rusty rails paint pen and zero luck.  I was very disappointed as I usually really enjoy WS products.  Do you have any tips or tricks for how you got the paint pent to work so well on your rails?  my was splotchy and uneven not at all like yours.

Congrats on the fast track........ Looks great.

jrmertz - I used the WS paint pens with some success, most of the pens the flow of paint to the tip was fairly good while others I found had a hard time keeping the tip wet, these pens I reserved for weathering the tie plates.  The good flowing pens were used for the rails.  I will say that I had two apply two coats, first coat was a bit thin and splotchy and not dark enough.  After I let the first coat dry over night I would hit it with a good second wet coat, this coat went on more even and uniform.
   Lastly I used the weathering chalks to weather the roadbed. I used a bristled paint brush to apply the weathering chalk to the roadbed and consequently the chalk ended up on the sides of the rails.  This got rid of the new look of the freshly painted rails and helped hide some of the imperfections where there were light areas of paint.

Hope this helps and great  job to all that are improving the look of Fastrack.

Thank you for sharing with us pictures of your work. Nicely done.