Weathering mineral wagons best techniques and paint?

[mophead]

Hello I've recently bought a few mineral wagons for a planned shunting layout based around a steelworks, I'm wondering if anyone can help me out on the weathering side of things mainly whet paints to use enamel paint or acrylic paints? And creating realistic rust and scrapes? I'm trying to do my wagons has heavily weathered battered examples in internal use...

 

Many thanks

 

Mophead

[Yan]

Martyn Welch's book 'The Art of Weathering' page 69 to 74 has a description of his excellent weathering technique. I build a few mineral wagon kits last year and weathered a couple following his description and was very pleased with the result.

 

His technique is basically (but not wholly) painting the whole wagon (or just parts) in your chosen rust colour with talc mixed in the paint( this gives the paint texture). Apply Maskol over areas of the rust which you want show. Then paint the wagon in your top coat colour. Remove the Maskol and do some final washes of weathering to tone down colour or dry brush colour to highlight.

 

Some people have used salt to mask areas but I've not used this technique yet nor have I experiment with gouche which I've seen people produce excellent results of rust spots and streaks on wagons.

 

Below are a couple of my blog posts that might help to explain a little.

 

http://grogleyjunction.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/kingdom-of-rust.html

 

http://grogleyjunction.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/paint-brush-has-been-put-down.html

 

Hope this helps...