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A close-up of a trio of roof that I just finished. Each roof was done the same but to different degrees. |
A couple of weeks ago I spent a few afternoons working on weathering some of my rolling stock roofs. This post we will focus on the running boards. What I did was paint the wooden running boards to look like the paint had worn off to different degrees. I worked on a few at a time...did 6 cars over the two days. The boxcars had already some degree of weathering and most of the roofs had been painted a gray tone to emulate failing paint on the steel and overcoated with a brown PanPastel that looks similar to boxcar red.
The running boards all got a coat of Floquil grime (as Floquil is not available one can use Hunterline concrete for this task or one of the AK gray filter stains) which gives one a very realistic weathered look as wood on plastic. I then coated the running boards with varying degree of PanPastel raw umber shade. I want each car to look a bit different...more on roofing tomorrow...George Dutka
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The running boards done with Floquil grime and PanPastels on two MEC Atlas boxcars. |
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The grime has been applied to three of my boxcar running boards. |
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PanPastel raw umber shade was applied first followed by a bit of red iron oxide extra dark on one of them. |
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