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[sb67]

Hi Rob, I'm doing a bit of weathering and got a quick question about weathering powders, sure I've asked you before and the answer is in your topic somewhere but I tried to look but there's so many pages! 

When you apply the powders do you start with the lightest then put darker ones over the top or the other way round or does it not mater?

Many thanks.

Steve.

[NHY 581]

Morning Steve. 

 

Yes, start with say the iron oxide on the metal work then use the black for areas where you might want add shading. 

Dark earth to the underframe and perhaps lower wagon sides and ends. 

 

Over to top then goes smoke to tone down any areas.  

 

I will then revisit any areas using lighter colours if needed. 

 

Roofs are done last, once the rest of the wagon is finished and sealed. 

 

Hope this helps. 

 

Rob. 

 

 

[sb67]

Thanks Rob, that helps. it's an 03 I'm weathering, I got some photo's to work from but wasn't sure what colours to start with.

Steve.

[NHY 581]

I would detach the body from the chassis, Steve. This will reduce the likely hood of powders getting into the mechanism. 

 

Also mask off the windows and remove once finished. 

 

You can use white powder as well to lighten the panels........use in moderation.....!!!!@!@!@@!

[The Johnster]

18 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

East Fife 4, Forfar 5.

 

J. Alexander Gordon

Hamilton Academicals.

[81C]

You lot have been watching too much Coronation Street.  

[Captain Kernow]

I was innocently sanding some of the hardened tile grout on the road crossing at the end of 'Bethesda Sidings', when the door bell rang and a man came in and laid some lino down for us.

 

[colin penfold]

18 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

I was innocently sanding some of the hardened tile grout on the road crossing at the end of 'Bethesda Sidings', when the door bell rang and a man came in and laid some lino down for us.

 

 

Were you floored, CK ???

 

M. Pathetic

[Captain Kernow]

1 minute ago, colin penfold said:

 

Were you floored, CK ???

No, I made him a cup of coffee and then had a cup of green tea myself. 

 

We didn't discuss Arbroath or Hamilton Academicals.

 

Also, please don't take the reference to the above as any indication of any kind of conversation covering the topic of football or other sports. It wasn't that kind of scenario.

 

[Mallard60022]

4 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

No, I made him a cup of coffee and then had a cup of green tea myself. 

 

We didn't discuss Arbroath or Hamilton Academicals.

 

Also, please don't take the reference to the above as any indication of any kind of conversation covering the topic of football or other sports. It wasn't that kind of scenario.

 

I bet you were discussing Smokies and innocently you thought he meant the fishy ones from Arbroath and the well documented habits of the HA Vice Chancellor, behind the Bicycle Sheds at the Staff Accommodation. We know what you are like. The plastic flooring Artisan was referring to Spliffs.

Argh.

[Mallard60022]

3 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

I would detach the body from the chassis, Steve. This will reduce the likely hood of powders getting into the mechanism. 

 

Also mask off the windows and remove once finished. 

 

You can use white powder as well to lighten the panels........use in moderation.....!!!!@!@!@@!

Is that why there is often so much white powder on the floor at the Gym changing room I frequent?

P

[Alister_G]

2 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Is that why there is often so much white powder on the floor at the Gym changing room I frequent?

P

 

No Ducky, that's for exercising the mind.

 

Al.

[NHY 581]

11 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Is that why there is often so much white powder on the floor at the Gym changing room I frequent?

P

That's talc, Mon Canard. For all your important little ducky places. Stops yer feathers chaffing. You do not want that getting up yer beak. 

 

Rob. 

[Oldddudders]

1 hour ago, colin penfold said:

 

Were you floored, CK ???

 

M. Pathetic

I hope it wasn’t fatally?

[The Johnster]

Legend apparently has it that Pontius Pilate was from Arbroath.  

 

I feel better now I've told everybody that; I suppose I've washed my hands of it...

[sb67]

7 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

I would detach the body from the chassis, Steve. This will reduce the likely hood of powders getting into the mechanism. 

 

Also mask off the windows and remove once finished. 

 

You can use white powder as well to lighten the panels........use in moderation.....!!!!@!@!@@!

Thanks Rob, I've done the panels using oil paints, never though about using powder, I've added a wash in the panel lines and spillage from the fuel filler points that were seen on quite a few 03's, just want to add powders on the roof and dirt on the sides and chassis now. 

Steve.

Edited March 1, 2019 by sb67

[Captain Kernow]

Joke of the Day

(as seen in Totnes yesterday):

 

'I took the shell off my racing snail the other day, to make him go faster, but now he's a little sluggish'.

 

 

[Benbow]

18 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Joke of the Day

(as seen in Totnes yesterday):

 

'I took the shell off my racing snail the other day, to make him go faster, but now he's a little sluggish'.

 

 

 

Groan button anybody? 

[Captain Kernow]

57 minutes ago, Benbow said:

 

Groan button anybody? 

That's a bit unfair to a town that offers you free jokes.

 

I think you have to pay in Horrocksford.

 

[Liam]

2 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

That's a bit unfair to a town that offers you free jokes.

 

I think you have to pay in Horrocksford.

 

 

What about in Haverfordwest?

[BlackRat]

Enough of this Arbroath!

 

Tiz giving me flashbacks.......... albeit not all of them unhappy ones.

[NHY 581]

11 hours ago, SVRlad said:

 

What about in Haverfordwest?

There's little to laugh about in Haverfordwest..............

7 hours ago, BlackRat said:

Enough of this Arbroath!

 

Tiz giving me flashbacks.......... albeit not all of them unhappy ones.

Somehow this worries me somewhat.........

[NHY 581]

All gone a bit Stothert & Pitt hereabouts.......

[KNP]

I went to Haverfordwest once but I was in a Vauxhall?

[Benbow]

13 minutes ago, KNP said:

I went to Haverfordwest once but I was in a Vauxhall?

 

Steady ....my old Dad was a Senior Exec at Vauxhall back in the days when we still had a healthy Car Industry even if they were owned by GM!