Rust – Final touches…

Great stuff, I can almost see it now!!!!

It's headed you way unless it gets bumped to a siding...

That was a- lodda lines to do Don,

That is some beautiful work ,so real,do you use an air brush to do you weathering ,

very nice work . 

As usual outstanding work.  I think you raise the bar on every car you weather.  Did you use the pencils to highlight the metal braces.

Great work!!! Share your methods??? Did you use a fixative???

Thanks

First clear coat provides texture. Glide pencils over the surface to highlight.

Roof, all braces and side board lines with wood grain were highlighted with colored pencils.

Sealed with Lowes Valspar Flat spray. It wont effect the colors.

No, never had any control or luck with airbrushes. They are more for H.O people.

Don't have time to fool with air brushes or cleaning them either.

S.

Great job, SIRT!  The weathering, the freight, the people all look awesome!  Matt

I really like this one alot. While all your work is supurb I am not a big fan of the "heavy"rusted look. That is just me though, It does always look super realstic, it is just more than I want on my layout. This car of the other hand is perfect for my taste, It looks well used yet taken car of, if that makes sense.

Great job as allways Steve

I like the idea of using colored pencils. They'll very controllable. I've been using dry brush and powders. Now I can add another tool... colored pencils. Nice work. Air brushes a pain to clean, but the value they bring makes the cleaning palatable.

That really is great work here and the I am just fascinated with the color palette you have used.

It makes perfect sense, Strogey, if you ask me. All his freight cars look perfect, IMHO, because SIRT's touch is subtle. No matter the degree of wear-n-tear on them, he knows exactly how to nuance all of the effects. To me, the cars rise to the level of artwork because of his ability to see and to translate what he sees onto a canvas. This isn't learned so much as it is a gift.
IMO.

FrankM

Pure artistry!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rich

Spot on Frank.

There is some art to it that cant be read in a book. I've been painting my toys since the age of 5.

Every application has a reason and purpose as to why it’s done a certain way. There is some logic on why cars appear a certain way.

Like the old 40’s car shown above, primers were not used at that time, so the metal rusted a certain way. Also a different metal was used back then.

So, I wouldn’t use that same application let’s say, on a late model ACF Railbox from 74 and so on.

Just think of all the cars I haven’t shown that are just lightly dusted.

How boring would that be, eh?

Thanks

S.