Scrap loco

[class37418stag]

Hiya

 

I will buy old diesel locomotive to need get heavy weathered and rust

 

How work of diesel loco need heavy weathered and rust on scrap yard

 

Thank you

[darrel]

some photos here for insperation

[James]

Andrew, this might interest you -

 

http://eastmoor.blogspot.com/2010/10/scuttled.html

 

It's a withdrawn Warship loco I did last year - it's not quite in scrapyard condition but is modelled from photos of it when it was dumped at Old Oak Common.

[Etched Pixels]

Do you mean how much rust would be on a train in a scrap yard? It depends how long it had been there. Try searching for some images of the class you want on google, you can aid realism by removing some of the windows, cutting panels out etc

 

Richard

 

Well worth looking at photos because a lot of what they get is very very faded flaky paint rather than visible rust. Even some of the stuff that spent nearly thirty years in Barry right by the sea was mostly heavily faded paint and dirt rather than rust.

 

Would agree with the class advice very strongly, especially as some locos were partly aluminium

[James]

You can do fading by brushing thin washes over livery colours but it takes a long time. In this case you'd be better off repainting items in muted/faded versions of the original colours and weathering on top of them.

 

There's a bit about fading paint on my site -

 

http://eastmoor.blogspot.com/2009/07/fading-fast.html

 

A lot of careful observation is needed but the results could very very nice!