I touched on this slightly in last nights blog, but I think its probably more deserving to have a post in its own right.

Having picked up a couple of packets of Tamyier weathering 'makeup' type powders yesterday I set about having a play with them on 47768. The idea was to try out 4 different styles which together make up the majority of the weathering I am planning for the moment.

The first was the dark streaks coming down from the roof joints, these took a lot of attempts to get something I was happy with, due to the lack of control I found with the pad when used in a small area. I think in future I will stick to using gouache.

The next was the sooty deposits around the exhaust port, here it lacked a bit of texture and I had a real problem getting the 'powder' to go into the corners of the detail (ie exactly where I wanted the majority of it to be).... Not sure what can be done there unless its possible to get a much finer tipped applicator. This was compounded by the roof colour hiding the weathering. Going to get some Mig powders one day and redo it

I didnt think that the white colour would be of much use, but it has served very nicely for faiding paintwork, but again as with the exhaust port its only really much good if there is minimal detail on the panel you want to weather.

The bogies were attacked with layers of browns, sand and rust, again suffering from the same issue (this is getting rather repetitive) that I struggled to get the colour into corners. made much worse on the bogies with pipework!

Finally some road dirt was applied to the side of the loco, started by roughly applying brown, sand, rust and soot colours then blending it all carefully together resulting in a smooth finish.

I then tried moving onto the cab front with slightly less success (mostly that same problem again compounded by the fact there is a lot more detail on the fronts.)

This will be it for now as I realised after starting that I havent painted the tail light surrounds yet and they clearly need to be painted white prior to finishing the weathering. Just need the sun to come out now so that I can do the photos in decent light.