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The overhead is shared by Scarmento Northern and Visalia Electric, both of which serviced a good number of packing sheds in their respective areas. Sept/Oct ’08 - O Scale Trains • 3 Before Photo 1 Weathering an O Scale Hopper Rich Divizio (Judging by the many photos I’ve looked at, O Scale mod- 3 elers seem reluctant to weather freight cars. The OST staff feels this is an important overdue subject. Therefore I com- missioned weathering expert Rich Divizio to do one of my own cars for this article in our ongoing effort to bring you the best techniques and modeling information we can. Here’s Rich. -Ed.) Fading the Car In looking at the unweathered car (Photo 1), I decided the first order of business was to fade the car down a bit and grime it up before I started to add any kind of rust detailing. I mixed a custom gray color that was slightly darker than the car’s original color using Windsor & Newton’s Zinc White and Ivory Black gouache thinned with Windex, combined with Wind- sor & Newton’s Raw Umber water soluble oil paint from their Artisan line. I mixed these colors keeping a close eye on the con- sistency until I got a dark brownish/grayish tone that would still be transparent as it was applied to the car (Photos 2-3). I quickly applied the custom wash to the side panels brushing up and down until the whole side was covered. Working fast while the 2 side was still wet, I took a wedge shaped cosmetic sponge and dabbed the side of the car left to right, up and down and back again until I achieved the desired, grimy/faded look I wanted (Photo 4). Note: by doing this you’re actually taking off what you just put on, and if more is taken off in one spot than the other, you could reveal more of the cars original color which simulates that the panel’s rusting is slowly taking over the metal. Photo 5 shows a completed side after the first wash has been applied and sponged. Fading the Letters Once both sides were complete, I wanted to tone down the lettering without disturbing the panel color, so I used the 4 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’08 4 8 5 9 same dark gray gouache mixture and a torn cosmetic sponge to carefully dab the color on, touching only the lettering (Photos 6-7). Once the sides of the car were complete, I concentrated on the surrounding areas: the sides of the roofwalk, the lower sills and ladders, and the sloping roof line under the roof walk (Photos 8-9-10). 6 10 The Magic Take-Off Technique The areas I just spoke of were treated with the same wash as the sides were. A couple of minutes after those areas were visibly dry, I took a brush dipped in some rubbing alcohol, 7 and stippled all those same areas to take off what had just been applied. By doing this, it creates the look of built up dirt over time. As far as the finer detailing on panel seams, bolts and where the supports meet their attaching points, we will fine tune those areas later once the whole car has a base layer of grime. End Detailing I approached both ends of the car the same way, by giving them a base coat of grime. I make sure that where the rungs of the ladder are attached, and anywhere the end of the car collects the dirt kicked up from the wheels, that I’m treating those areas with some extra special attention. The grime wash will take care of the basic grooves that need to be filled with collected dirt, but to create the kicked up splatter from the Sept/Oct ’08 - O Scale Trains • 5 wheels, I lightly grimed the end of the car, not going as dark 14 as the sides of the car, since this area is a bit more protected. While the surface was still wet, I took a dry brush with some weathering powder on it and, holding the car vertically, lightly tapped the back end of the car. By doing this, the pow- der is randomly dropped in specks onto the wet surface and you leave it to dry without touching it. You will seal this later using Dullcote from an airbrush (Photos 11-12). For griming up the hopper bays, bolts and other equipment, it’s the same as before, just dirty up these areas according to what you feel this car has been exposed to over time (Photos 13-14).
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