Weathering Limestone wagons

[Norton961]

I am happy weathering locos, carriages and wagons and have a number of mixes that I use. However I now have a number of wagons to weather which carried Limestone and am unsure what colours to use. I have plenty of photos showing the weathering patterns but assume that white would be to harsh, so what colours should I use?

The wagons I want to start on are the Bachmann Lilleshall Co Limestone wagons.

David

 

[Mick Bonwick]

Going by the colour shown in this photograph I'd use a cream with a touch of tan added, not dissimilar to the interior of the wagons.

 

Photograph by Bogdan Giușcă - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27938708 

[Fat Controller]

it all depends on the type of limestone being carried. Dolomite, used in steel-making and refractories, has a yellow tinge, like that in the photo. The Carboniferous Limestone found throughout the UK, and used in iron smelting, has a blue-grey colour, and the dust it leaves over wagons is almost white. I suspect the lime/limestone used at Lilleshall would have been the latter, usually found in areas with coal-seams.

[Norton961]

Brian, thanks for the clarification of the different types of Limestone. The Lilleshall Co sourced it’s Limestone from a number of sources, mainly from a quarry called Nantmawr near Oswestry and Presthope near Much Wenlock. The Lilleshall blast furnaces did not produce steel.

i will do some experiments and start with white and add a tiny bit of slate grey.

 

Thanks

David

[Norton961]

I had a go at some weathering on my Lllleshall Co Limestone wagons, this is the first pass with more to follow once I have sorted out some transfers to renumber them. The Humbrol paint mix I used was No 34 White, with a dash of No 40 Pale Grey which just killed of the harshness of the white.

Comments please.

[davknigh]

At the risk of sounding picky, will you be changing the numbers of the wagons so they are all different? Otherwise they look quite good.

 

Cheers,

 

David

[Norton961]

David, yes they will all be renumbered.

 

David

[Norton961]

Second go at weathering after renumbering using spare numbers from the Lilleshall transfers from Coast Line models.

 

David