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Some dirty cows (seacows that is)


shanks522

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I have been having a little tidy up of the layout and something that resembles a workbench over the last few days and found a cheap airbrush i bought many moons ago so set about doing some weathering and a respray, The respray is nothing grand, its an olive liveried seacow i picked up specifically to paint in Mainline blue, shame is its the wrong variant but It'l do, i've addded what transfers i can find but need specific white Seacow lettering and Tops panel. (Sure i'l find something somewhere) Whilst painting the wagon i looked at the lovely clean Dutch ones, and as beautiful as they are i think in the mid 2000's they really wouldn't be that clean so decided to weather the whole rake, partly with the airbrush and the rest with weathering powders, i'm quite pleased with results so far, there not fantastic but at normal viewing distance i think very effective.

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Cheers

 

Graham.

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Hi Graham,

 

Nice work on the weathering.

 

One think I've been doing recently (having read of a similar technique used by HO modeller Pelle Solleborg) is to weather the wheelfaces. I pop them out and line them up and work in batches of a dozen or so. First I paint them a dirty brown/grey then before they're 100% dry I brush on some dark brown/track dirt weathering powder. IMO it enhances the appearance, especially where the type of bogie reveals quite a lot of wheel.

 

I was unconvinced until I tried it and now I'm a convert!

 

cheers

 

Ben A.

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