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The wagon and carriage shop - weathering GWR O13 china clay wagons

drduncan

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A while ago I posted some pictures of wagons that were being contructed for china clay traffic, both GWR and PO. Amongst the images were a pair of GWR O13 china clay wagons, painted, lettered, but not weathered.

 

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I dedcided that I would weather one (92971) quite lightly, the other (94100) more heavily. To weather wagons, I tned to dry brush and use acryilic paints.

 

First, 'light rust' was lightly dry brished over the underframes using a mop headed soft brush.

 

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Then 92971 was lightly dry brushed with white paint, while 94100 had slightly heavier treatment, again using a soft mop headed brush.

 

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The it was time to swap to a much stiffer brush to apply heavy streaking to 94100; areas around doors, and the underframe beneath the side and end doors got especially heavy treatment.

 

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Then finally the interior of 92971 was dry brushed with a moderately heavy hand, and 94100 received a reasonably heavy wash of white to represnt the much havily staining it was supposed to have suffered in service.

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drduncan

Thanks! I'll try to pose them on Hope on Thursday to get a better picture. I think thr important bit in the top layer of weathering is vertical brush strokes to simulate the impact of rain streaking the dirt.

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Kaolin2FS

Agree with Jez - although more subtle weathering effects often look best, in this case I particularly like the more weather-beaten of the two.

Graham

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drduncan

Thanks.

As I'm constructing a rake of almost identical O13s, I want to inject variety in the overall look of the finished train by having very different weathering finishes. On other wagons I'll also be trying to darken the base coat of GWR freight grey.

Duncan

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