One of the best things about using the ink and water technique for base coat weathering is I can do it most of the year. As mentioned in one of my earlier blogs I had a problem with it being too warm to get the ink to flow where I wanted it to. On reflection it wasn't the temperature it was the humidity ( or lack of it) No problems this week - just a bit dark to take photos.

I will try and get some shots of some coaches currently being weathered as well as a couple of diesels. For these I use a slightly different technique.

Black ink and water from the top down - brown ink and water from the bottom up.This gives a good representation of the colours seen on diesels and coaches. I still use powders on top of the dry ink - and for the odd rust patch use powder on wet ink to give a surface texture.

I will up date this when the sun comes out and can get some clearer photographs.

Just found an example of a diesel which I did a while ago - a Heljan Co-Bo re- gauged to EM by Mike Edge for use on the Condor... more soon