A bit more playing with rusting things out. This time it’s a pipe.

I started with a short length of evergreen tube. I attacked it with me dremel and a diamond ball burr to thin the ends to make them look corroded and then I ground a hole from both inside and out again to simulate corrosion. Then a coat of primer filled with talc and various Vallejo browns and rusty colours including Burnt Umber, Smoke, Charred Brown, Rust, Saddle Brown, Leather brown. all applied as washes also washes of German orange and finally sponge stippling with Dark Prusion Blue to simulate a bit of residual original colour.

Upon reflection I still wasn’t happy with the ‘box’ so I had another go at it this morning.

I have also been working on a few more bits of ‘scrap’ from spare whitemetal castings

I am not really sure what this part was originally…

In between doing other bits and pieces I am still playing around with the weathering. Using some techniques that I have ipicked up from watching armour modelling videos I have been trying my hand at rust effects.

They are all whitemetal castings from my spares box.

I wasn’t so wild about these once I saw the photos so I had another go at them this evening.

Despite the hairs which are not visible on the actual items I am happier with them now.

I did a couple more photo stacking experiments and I am now getting the hang of it – the first of these being the better outcome.

Ex Caledonian Timber and Ore Wagons

Ex Caledonian Timber and Ore Wagons

A few posts back Dave mentioned ghost writing. I liked the idea but then thought that during my modelling period the ghosts would still be alive.

So an image search on’t tinterweb later had me a wall with a white painted advert for a long defunct local brewery. The image I found was taken at a slight angle so the image was manipulated with GIMP, sized and then printed onto a sheet of standard office paper. To get the image onto the brick work I coated the back using some “chalk” marker pens that I picked up in the stationary section in Boyes with chalk marks on wagons in mind. They are marketed as being for writing adverts on windows and blackboards.

Once the back was thoroughly coated I then drew over the image side with a pencil leaving an impression much like using tracing paper. This was then carefully painted in and a slight shadow painted around some of the letters as in the original. I am really rather pleased with the result.

Signs in situ

A couple more wagons have passed through the weathering bench.

This one I have been tinkering with for 6 or 8 weeks in total – doing something at it each week but not being satisfied with it until now.

Another one that got some weathering attention last weekend was the LMS coal wagon.

The sunlight has lightened the inside somewhat – much more than in reality.

I am undecided as to whether I put a few lumps of stray coal inside to finish it off.

I couldn’t resist a couple of photos of the latest wagon builds together.