Weathering Workshop
I've been muckying up a few locos recently as a break from work on the layout and my other modelling hobby of building plastic kits to rebrand & renumber and mucky up a few locos that were in LNER liveries. I've been working on a Bachmann J39, and Hornby J94, J83 and J52 - along with a few diesels not shown (Bachmann Cl.25, 44 & 55)
The four steam locos lined up:
All have been sprayed up in relatively the same fashion and I wanted all of them to be pretty heavily weathered. I made a hash of the J83 and got the cabside numbers in the wrong place but have managed to make them a little less conspicious! Even so its a blighter as it only clicked once I'd spent an hour or so putting them on and had already sprayed the first colour. My weathering technique is to first give the locos some hard water stains with watered down white acrylic, then spray a dusting of Humbrol (H) 67 (Tank Grey), followed by a dusting of H155 (Olive Drab. Once dry the smokebox is given a coat of matt varnish and then a few more water stains are added along with some shades of rust on the smokebox and the cabside numbers are wiped back with a bit of white spirit on a cotton bud. It is all then blended back in with a spray of H32 which is a dark shade of grey. Usually it seems to work alright, although I've made a hash of it on one loco before!
In detail, here are the now weathered locos. All were originally in LNER liveries and are all now in BR late crest.
Hornby J52 - Now 68792
Hornby J94 - Now 68017 (The water tanks haven't been screwed down yet btw)
Hornby J83 - Now 68492
Bachmann J39 - Now 64735
Cheers,
Owen
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