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Stil have a Dutch blue DMU wich I'm working on. Have a test this weekend. Would go for a flesh tone or the buff I think..

Steve, I find them real easy to use, Just added paint to the panel edges and featered it out to the center with a dry flat brush..

Been checking out the Ammo oilbrushers lately, working on one side of a Dutch NS 2400 diesel. Enhanced the contrast between te panels, also faded the paint in the same step. I like this medium a lot. Although not new, they are regular oil paints makes the packaging the work very clean and speeds up the workflow..

Thanks Mick !

Thanks Steve ! It has been a while since I worked on the USATC tanker, well I think I declare this little H0 scale car for finished, hopefully Big Mike likes it !!

Final shots of the Dutch diesel railcar DE1 in red. Dirty after a week full service but not rusty and rotten.

More teaser shots of the forthcoming article I'm writing, guess it wil be published in the dutch modelrailmagazine Railhobby.

Coming up .. Excuses, it shoud be a SD-9.

There are a couple of projects I currently work on. A BNSF GP9 according to a prototype as well as a dutch railcar called DE 1. All project are photographed in step by steps for future articles.

More "tiny"stuff on the way..have more HO boxcars, locomotives and other things here..but if you did gauge 1 and 0 scale for a while it's tiny

Working on a really tiny car in H0 scale for a Belgian friend of mine. After all the scale 1 and 0 stuff I almost forgot how tiny 1:87 could be..Mostly used Ammo by Mig Jiminez enamel product..

Fooling around with Lightroom CC, found some old pictures....

Do love the work of MIguel too, as I love Wilder works and more military guys stuff. Not yet, UK rolling stock is not what I have around here. Lotta German stuff and I model USA myself..

Could give it a try ! Suffering a bad attack of the flue, feels like I'm hit by a truck. Still can't do nothing, guess it's not in my genes. More work on the Persil boxcar. Saw this video by Mig Jimenez using enamels over chipping medium on a zaku. Thought it could be used on a boxcar roof as wel. So I sprayed several layers of scratches medium on the roof followed by streaking grime for interiors because the greyish brown color suited the roof of a boxcar a bit more. After a short drying time I started chipping with plain tapwater..well I always use demineralised. Also added a bit of african dust to the lower parts streaked with odourless thinner, followed by a light mist of the same streaking grime for interiors..

Boring Xmass days are nice to model More work done on the green Persil boxcar. Bit of rust on the chipping. Not on the walls, they are plywood but just on the metal frame..Please don't comment on the huge couplers, they are still on because the come in very handy turning the car without touching the fresh paint. Next job will be the roof, sheetmetal. Guess I chip it lightly and add more dust and grime on it. As the sliding panels are aluminium I added some light chips to the to..finaly some dust and this one will be done..

Thanks guys ! Still more work on te bench.. Jonas, I use Ammo by Mig Splashes Mud for this, A.MIG 1750, 1751 and 1753 for this. Thinned a bit with odourless thinner and blown to the underframe with the air from the airbrush. But a stiffer brush and a toothpick will work to. In each layer I removed the to large particles and streaked it downwards with odourless thinner. After that and a bit of drying I brushed and stipled on some light dust and earth toned pigments. Fixate them inbetween layers with a short shot of odourless thinner with the airbrush. To speed up I blow the fixation dry with the air out of the airbrush. Fixation at the end can be done with pigment fixer, Pigments, thinner and fixer all Ammo by Mig products.. http://www.migjimenez.com/en/

Well, think I'm done. Just a few minor things on the puffers..added dust, splatter and so on. Pigments and enamel splatter stuff from Ammo used..think it's a lovely couple but the yellow one needs a bit of dust to..

Didn't go smaller as H0 scale, N would be a real challenge I think..but worth to give it a try one day.. So another project nearly finished, the German tankcar in 0 scale..still had to do the other side. Added several rust tones, streaks and so on. Bit of metal pigment on the handrails but I think I used to much..think I use a pencil next time..

Thanks ! Got a lot of questions asked lately about filters. What are they and what do they do. Well, filters are very thin paints, 10% paint and 90% dilutant and they change the overall color of the paintjob and unify the several dots and spots painted on the model. I did try to capture it in pictures. Did one side of this boxcar with 2 layers of filters, one with a blue green color and one with a light brown ochre color applied in 2 thin coats with a drying time of 24 hour inbetween. with filters. without.. with filters.. without.. as you can see the filters change the overall appearance of the car and blend all the painted chips more together and soften its look. Choose for a second filter to gave it a more overall dusty apperance..

Never did British rolling stock, lot's of German lateley. But I'm always in for a challenge, maybe I can combine it with an article for the magazine ?

New project on the bench, a German Gmms 60 company car, just finished chipping..

German 0 scale Jonas, 1:45

Sometimes I got the question asked do you work on commission after they see my work at shows. Well shure I do ! This time someone came to me at the expo at Leuven Belgium with a bright yellow boxcar for bananas. Sometimes I wonder if the manufacturers of rolling stock know anything about scale and color. Boy this car was bright, so bright yellow it almost hurt the eye. This made it a real challenge for me, tone it down a little with a couple of fades using the Ammo transparator medium for the first time. Couple of drops of white, bit yellow and a lot of transparator and thinner shaked well in a dropper bottle before spraying it on the car. After letting it dry for a day and a next coat with a satin varnish I put it away for a week to determine wat I would use on this car. Well decided to go with a wash for DAK, a bit brownish color for the pinwashes, wich let pop out the detail nicely. After that some streaking grime and a light spray of tracks primer on the undercarriage before I hit it with several pigments. Couple of rust tones to the springs and wheels set with streaking rust softened with odourless thinner, metal pigment on the buffers. Grease added to the bearing pods and puffers. Black and metal pigment combined with grease gives a nice result for the thick grease on the puffers in the real world. Pigments for dust on the undercarriage set with odourless thinner with the airbrush, manipulated with a brush and finally set with pigment fixer..

More to come, don't worry..

It has been a while since I posted something about progress on the Gmhs 53 boxcar. Well it's almost finished now after a lot of filters, oil shading , grime, streaks and dust.Still need some grease on the axle bearing pods and a bit of rust on the suspension but for the rest I'm pretty satisfied with the result, dirty and dusty but not rotten.