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Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: megatoad Date: November 11, 2013, 8:24 am
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Hi Dave, yes you missed out the actual important bit. the final
weathering !!
Thats the bit that has always scared me and put me off fiddling
too much with RTR stuff
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Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: 1960SeriesII Date: November 11, 2013, 8:43 am
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Noone's used to a quiet, attentive audience nowadays! Everyone
wants loud shouts of appreciation from the general public before
feeling his work is being followed ;D
Or the know-how is so unique an excuse had to be made up to keep
it secret :)
Good work, as always I had to take a second look to be able to
tell whether it's a scale model :haha:
#Post#: 79406--------------------------------------------------
Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: prof-pat-pending Date: November 11, 2013, 11:27 am
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[quote author=1960SeriesII link=topic=7155.msg79399#msg79399
date=1384181038]
Noone's used to a quiet, attentive audience nowadays! Everyone
wants loud shouts of appreciation from the general public before
feeling his work is being followed ;D
[/quote]
very loud shout of appreciation here - more please !!
thankyou
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Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: ashcrroft752 Date: November 11, 2013, 11:31 am
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It all looks real :thumbs: How do you get the paint to lift at
the edges of the rust?
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Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: bubble Date: November 11, 2013, 2:06 pm
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Mate, that is brilliant. You've got a real flair for that. I
keep looking at that photo again and again as detail in not only
the wagon but the stuff in the background is amazing. A real
inspiration for wanna be modelers like me! Keep it coming...
>rock<
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Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: Dave Date: November 11, 2013, 4:23 pm
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[quote]How do you get the paint to lift at the edges of the
rust?
[/quote]
When the top coat has dried (dried to the point it isn't wet but
isn't fully cured) I pick the rubber masking with tweezers and
pull it off. This lets the edges of the paint lift and stretch
slightly so it looks like old flaking paint.
[quote author=megatoad link=topic=7155.msg79397#msg79397
date=1384179881]
Hi Dave, yes you missed out the actual important bit. the final
weathering !!
Thats the bit that has always scared me and put me off fiddling
too much with RTR stuff
[/quote]
Apart from the flaky paint there are other techniques used. One
is called dry brushing and is used to highlight things such as
the underframe and the springs. To do it you dip the end of the
brush in the required colour (something quite a bit lighter than
what the top coat of paint is - in this case a light rust colour
would highlight the springs and other under frame bits) and go
over some old newspaper, cardboard or anything at all to take
most of the paint off the brush until what remains is almost
dry. You then lightly go over the piece and the paint sticks to
raise parts only. It's something that takes practice to know how
much paint to take off the brush. Another place to use dry
brushing is on the cab steps on a locomotive, where the paint
wears off and the edges of the steps show shiny polished steel
from the enginemen's boots. Here you'd use silver or a specific
colour sold as "polished steel".
Another thing when painting something that's going to be dirty
and weathered and is supposed to be black topcoat (such as the
frames and brake gear on this wagon) is not to use straight
black. Always mix in a small amount of white so what you end up
painting is a very dark grey. Actual colours don't always "scale
down" and, also, things fade and that's the point of weathering
- to make it look old/used/weatherbeaten/dirty/dmaged etc. - not
ex-works or out of a showroom.
Also, even if something is painted gloss on the real thing,
don't use gloss paint. It will appear too shiny - shine also
doesn't "scale down". When you buy a die cast road vehicle it is
always very shiny because that's how collectors want them but
collectors aren't modellers and don't care that they don't look
realistic. I either paint a coat of matt varnish on or take the
shine off with 1000 grit wet and dry paper.
There's loads more but it would fill a book...
#Post#: 79454--------------------------------------------------
Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: Lardrover Date: November 11, 2013, 4:47 pm
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Just had my quarterly bath and check in here and seen this
thread straight away. Chuffed to bits with it, yes I know what I
did there. I'm not convinced that isn't a real wagon, need a
longer shot to prove it. Wish you had taken some more photo's of
work in progress though,
Please don't stop posting stuff like this Dave, it's good, it's
not easy to do well without a lot of time and practise, and it's
appreciated.
Do I need to massage your fragile ego some more or can we see
more projects now :-)
Edited to add that I've just seen your other model railway
threads, now I had something to look for. It's brill :-)
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Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: Peter de Dawg Date: November 11, 2013, 5:11 pm
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Absolutely fucking awesome sir ..! As others have
said.....more please..
#Post#: 79463--------------------------------------------------
Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: ashcrroft752 Date: November 11, 2013, 7:44 pm
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This post has given me the urge to start doing 1/35 scale tanks
again.
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Re: Model Railway wagon-building masterclass
By: puddlejumper Date: November 14, 2013, 11:39 am
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[quote author=Dave link=topic=7155.msg79244#msg79244
date=1384021496]
I wasn't sure anyone was really interested so I wasn't arsed to
take any more pics and just cracked on and finished it.
[URL=
HTML http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36014/16tonner-004.jpg.html][IMG]http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36014/16tonner-004.jpg[/img][/URL]
[/quote]
Dave
Is this on RMWeb?
Loving your work and layout is superb, had mine out at Newcastle
show and will have to put some pics on here when I get round to
it
Doug
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