Weathering GarGraves track, what paint do you use now?

I would recommend checking out this thread: https://ogrforum.com/topic/wea...ing-track-techniques

And this thread: https://ogrforum.com/topic/wea...ell-i-screwed-up-and

This is how I did it.

https://ogrforum.com/topic/154...7#179087887100676847

Kind of depends where your at in your build. If your track is not laid and the weather outside is good. I would go with the camo sprays. Excellent coverage and other than wiping the railhead. It goes fairly quick.

When I built my RR it wasn’t really thought of. After weathering everything including engines. It was time to weather the rails on a fairly complete RR. I used Poly S paints and an airbrush. The question though involves today. In some areas that got recently changed up. I used Rail Brown from the  Micromark line of paints. With a bit of Grimy Black from above. Works and covers very well. Using an airbrush makes pretty easy work of it. Today they make battery powered airbrushes. I think they would work well in this application if your RR is somewhat finished with details and scenery. I just have no experience with one as to what to recommend. Dragging the hose along the right of way. It will snag on everything. I purchased a longer hose and kept it draped over my shoulder. Not much fun when your up on the layout and your 1 foot short of being done and you have to get down to move the compressor. A simple air brush such as a single action Passche that will accept a larger canister of paint works best.
If you have a work buddy it’s the way to go. While you can focus on the painting. They can be right behind you wiping the rails or passing you more paint. Especially if you have to be somewhat up on the layout. It’s tough doing both as it doesn’t take long to gum up an airbrush painting with acrylics if you have to take a break to clean the rail tops.

Spray Paint:  black, reddish brown, greys, of different shades.

Take outside.  Lay on newspaper.  Spray randomly over the track section.  Be certain to NOT just spray down.  Spray "sideways" as well as down on track.

Wear plastic gloves!

WIPE OFF ONLY TOP of rails.  That is the only point the wheel or roller makes contact.

Quick, easy, looks like a million bucks!

(note: Menards track with wooden ties inserted. It was weathered as described above and will look fabulous with ballast.)

@NJCJOE posted:

This is how I did it.

https://ogrforum.com/topic/154...7#179087887100676847

I weathered my track from Joe’s tutorial and it turned out terrific. It was very easy to do and cost effective. Both paints are available on Amazon if your Menards or Lowe’s doesn’t stock them (I had to order the roof paint).

I find that Rustoleum camouflage brown does a great job.  You can buy in a rattle can and paint each piece of track (I do 36" flex) from both sides.  I take a block of wood wrapped in the rag with paint thinner to take the paint off the top of the rails.  The paint does a nice job on the wood ties as well.  This does a good job without meticulous detail to attention and such.  But it makes a great improvement above just having shiny rails.  My only recommendation would be to bend the flex track before painting the track.

I do the same thing with Ross switches but the switch points need to be taped over so you can get electric contact.

I use small wood screws (#4's>, cannot see because on travel) and you can buy the same paint in a small can and touch up the screw heads.  I learned a lot of this from Jim's book on O scale layout building.

Rustoleum camouflage earth brown #1918830.

Cheers, Dave

Those of us lacking foresight could not use the spray methods described.  However Tamiya XF-64 Red Brown I think is spot on.  At least it looks like what I see at our town train station.  A bit tedious but doable over a few evenings.   I only painted the sides visible by the viewer saving a lot of time.  Over time I will probably find some spots that I missed but coverage and color were good.