Jakesdads offering for the weathering comp'

As this is a how to as well as a competition I will give a blow by blow of how I do it, first up is the wagon I have chosen, it is a second hand kit built white metal planked LMS model I have had for a while.



I am going to try some weathering paint's/ink's stuff I bought from Warley last year, not used them before so it will be a learning curve for me too.



Well that's my offering, watch this space .

Pete.

 

I have removed the LMS letters and numbers ready to start re-doing it to suit my period and make it look more in keeping with Wheeldon.



I masked off the body (though to be honest I could have left it), and sprayed the lower half satin black, ('cos that was what came to hand first).



I let that dry for a while then started painting the iron work various browns, it will become obvious why when I move to the next stage.





Well thats it for now, once its dry I will carry on.

Cheer's, Pete.

 

Now that the rusty paint has dried I have put Maskol on the iron work.





After letting that dry over night I painted the wagons upper body a Bauxite-ish colour.



Later, this afternoon, I peeled off the Maskol to reveal the rusty ironwork underneath, it also lifted the paint which gives a realistic peeling effect.





Quite a while ago I accidentally splashed some MEK solvent on some acrylic painted plastic, the effect was the paint crinkled and gave a pleasing weathered wood/paint effect, so I have given it a go on the wagon, I think I should have left the paint to dry for longer as it didn't work quite as I wanted, it doesn't look bad but I will try again tomorrow.



Thats it for now, cheer's, Pete.

 

Hi Gary, no mate, though I quite like the effect it's just I did it my way la la laa

I will get me coat!

Pete.

 

Didn't realise it was the best part of 3 weeks since posting , anyhoo I've done some more on my wagon.
First I gave it a sprinkling of brake dust colour using the new paint/inks.



Then a wash of frame dirt and mud wash.









While the wash was still damp I gave it a dusting of weathering powders, a mix of brown, black and grey in different amounts, mixed on the brush.




Thats how it stands at the moment, I've got some more to do to the inside, then letter it up as an internal user, I will see if I can find a colour photo of the prototype as an example.

Cheer's, Pete.

 

Dunno if I'm too late but here is my finished wagon. First up the interior, I painted over the original black with a light grey making sure that some of the black showed through in the brush marks, then I dry brushed some Humbrol 63 acrylic, followed by Humbrol 402 acrylic, then Humbrol 53 gunmetal enamel to high light any grain/brush marks.



Because there are no transfers,(to my knowledge) for these type of wagons, I painted on some of the markings and used number decals to letter it up.



I gave the wagon an overall wash of very thinned down mud colour to tone down the lettering and interior, cut a couple of battens from a firework stick and that's it done, a few more pic's, a couple taken out side on Chris's suggestion.







That's it folk's, The outside photo's do look good I must admit.

Cheer's, Pete.

Nearly forgot, I found a couple of photo's taken at Staveley works in colour of similar wagons.