WEATHERING DIESELS

Resurrecting an old thread.

Nice work Bud. Great thread.

Here's some of my work. NY Subways, transit MOW cars and a Lionel H16-44 re-done as a South Brooklyn engine. (The SBK never had h16-44's but they did have some yellow rust-buckets)

all these models are extremely dirty as the NYC transit prototypes were. This is the kind of weathering I enjoy most... im no expert, my technique may not be the greatest but this post on weathering is awesome and it's one of the most fun parts of this hobby for me. 

NS_Trainman posted:

Oh geez, the talent here is amazing! One of my own pictures to share with y'all. It is  a Lionel NYC 2 bay hopper that I weathered using chalks. (Please excuse the bad photo.)

Looks great!

Lots of awesome work in this thread, tons of different techniques and inspiration. Here’s a few of my latest creations. 

Ben Snyder posted:

Lots of awesome work in this thread, tons of different techniques and inspiration. Here’s a few of my latest creations. 

Nice work.  I like the color of your track too.   Getting ready to paint another stretch in my yard.  I'm Always looking for anther color to try.  Care to share what color/method you used there? 

Thx

man haven't seen this thread in a long time

Thanks Marc. My track is painted floquil rail brown through an airbrush. It leaves a light coating on the middle rail, effectively hiding it a bit more, and also over sprays on the ties as well. I don’t try to cover everything, just what painting the rails leaves behind. Also I tint my ballast glue with a bit of black ink and some of that gets on the ties and rails too. This area has real limestone ballast. 

Ben Snyder posted:

Thanks Marc. My track is painted floquil rail brown through an airbrush. It leaves a light coating on the middle rail, effectively hiding it a bit more, and also over sprays on the ties as well. I don’t try to cover everything, just what painting the rails leaves behind. Also I tint my ballast glue with a bit of black ink and some of that gets on the ties and rails too. This area has real limestone ballast. 

Thanks Ben. I wish floquil was still being produced.  I've been using  Testors Enamel. Raw Umber for my right of way and will sometimes lightly spray over that with Testors Flat Brown when I want to give it a dirty,  rusty  color. If I can find some Floquil I'll give it a shot. Thanks for sharing.  

Bud, How do you like those Lionel SD38's? I missed the EJ&E units.

Nice work Marc. I use raw umber a lot for weathering the undersides and trucks on my rolling stock. Might try adding some yellow to it to try and match the rail brown. I really liked that color for the main lines, had a great grayish brown rust color to it. I still have a fair amount of trackage to paint. 

Mike DeBerg posted:

Bud, How do you like those Lionel SD38's? I missed the EJ&E units.

Actually, I like it a lot.  As a matter of fact, its one of my favorite locomotives.  I WISH I could find the #654!  Debating really hard on installing the scale couplers and fixing the pilots.  Lionel actually included the scale couplers mounts in the box

Super detailed, fixed pilots, weathered Lionel E6s.

Wow, Ron.

Better not let the brass see that dirty E6!

Nice weathering. 

corsair29 posted:

Nice work! Who makes the CNJ trainmaster?

Budkole posted:

Mike DeBerg posted:

Bud, How do you like those Lionel SD38's? I missed the EJ&E units.

Actually, I like it a lot.  As a matter of fact, its one of my favorite locomotives.  I WISH I could find the #654!  Debating really hard on installing the scale couplers and fixing the pilots.  Lionel actually included the scale couplers mounts in the box

BK,

Yeah, wishing I got some of these from Lionel.  Definitely add the Kadees and the kinematic pilots aren't terrible, but an easy fix especially if you want to have full length handrails.  Assuming it's got the kinematic pilots just by the looks?   I need to see if they can easily be converted to 2R scale wheels.  I've got some electrical pickup strips, but was also thinking I might go dead rail in these if I could get them to 2R...

Dj'sOgaugetrains posted:

corsair29 posted:

 

Nice work! Who makes the CNJ trainmaster?

MTH Proto 3

There are some really nice works of art here!  

Ron H posted:

Super detailed, fixed pilots, weathered Lionel E6s.

Love the dramatic angles!  

Frank,

Thanks, I try for ground angles to try and reflect the mass of these locomotives in real life.

Ron H

This thread is amazing, so much talent and beautiful work.  Doug, thanks so much for starting this thread.  I've picked up on a lot of great tips.  Tons of inspiration here.

J. Motts posted:

This thread is amazing, so much talent and beautiful work.  Doug, thanks so much for starting this thread.  I've picked up on a lot of great tips.  Tons of inspiration here.

 

Exactly!!!  I echo your comments.

Laidoffsick posted:

man haven't seen this thread in a long time

That SF ABBA is simply amazing!  Looks like a postcard shot!