weathering modern loco's

hi all, does anyone have any links or know of any web site in to helping me get started with weathering modern loco's

cheers

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stuart ardern
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Rich

Just take photos and try and duplicate what you see.

Worst thing you can do, in my opinion, is to copy what other modellers have done. If you do that, you are just modelling other models.

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Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

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Roger T.

"stuart ardern" wrote

The easiest thing is to go to your local railway station and take some photos! or just browse the many railfan picture galleries. Unlike the zillion varieties of crud that adhered to steam locos, modern stock is pretty straightforward. Bogies, wheels and most underside components go track colour, a sort of tan which is dirt sprayed up from wet ballast; roof vents on diesels get matt black hazing round the exhausts, continuing thinly along the roof panels; and the front ends get a thin grey mush which is mostly splattered insects and the odd pigeon. (This prominent on mainline electrics).

These are finely-spread effects so an airbrush on a soft spray with heavily diluted acrylics is what you need. Most modern liveries are colour stable vinyls and tend not to fade or peel before they're rebadged (which seems every five minutes now) so you don't need to distress factory paint jobs much - the exception being those units still in Network South East livery (some of the WAGN items hereabouts, 317s/365s) which are getting faded and shreddy along the stripes but are getting redone even now.

Don't forget characterful distressing in the modern scene, such as loaned stock with the original paint job but the TOC's decal peeled off, as in the amount of Virgin hauled and power car stock that doesn't say Virgin any more, running in mixed rakes with other TOCs' liveries. A good session with T-cut to recreate these is very prototypical for the modern scene almost anywhere in the country. You can have fun doing oddities on old locos such as DRS's 37s, but be advised these are kept very clean! (37612, seen at Norwich recently, was certainly box-fresh).

Tony Clarke

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Tony Clarke

Agreed, see my previous post.

Another excellent idea.

Even steam locos weathered differently from each other. They weren't just all over grungy grey, no matter what some people say. If you look c l o s e l y, you'll notice all sorts of subtle variations in the weathering pattern, even between locos of the same class.

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Roger T.

Home of the Great Eastern Railway

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Roger T.

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