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SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - SSWUPinSA - 09-13-2010

Hi guys,

My name is Callum and i am based in South Africa. I am busy designing and building my first layout and while I wait to finalise my plan I have started doing some weathering. I would like your opinions and all honesty on what I have done. I have not super detailed the locomotives as these are first attempts... My layout will be SSW/SP and a little UP based... I have never seen one of these loco's in real life but there is something very special about the SSW GP40's...

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Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - e-paw - 09-13-2010

I was sold on the first pic... great job. Cheers

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - Green_Elite_Cab - 09-13-2010

Yeah, looks kick-butt!

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - Ralph - 09-13-2010

Looks very convincing to me! Beautiful job! Thumbsup The first photo looks like a proto pic at first glance!
Ralph

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - yellowlynn - 09-13-2010

If I could do half that good I would think I was a professional.

Lynn

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - Steamtrains - 09-13-2010

I have to wear a bib when I look at these locos..... And I'm not even a dyed-in-the-wool diesel fan.... 357

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - Gary S - 09-13-2010

No doubt these are some great models. Especially the first two. Top notch!

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - SSWUPinSA - 09-14-2010

Thanks for the encouragement guys!!! I have some local guys asking about weathering as it isn't popular here in SA... I was going to offer to help them but wasn't sure I would be able to help if my work was not up to it. I haven't been at it long so at least this helps me have the confidance to offer what I know so long... Thanks to Pelle S for his tuts and books... "Done in a Day"

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - nachoman - 09-14-2010

Looks convincing to me, especially the first one. Keep in mind the SP had some VERY grungy looking locomotives in the 1980s and 1990s. The paint would be faded out, rusty, grimy, and sooty. I saw many locomotives that appeared a if they had been through a fire. In many cases, the lettering was almost impossible to read. I don't know why the SP was especially bad for having weathered locomotives - whether it was they used cheap paint, or painted/washed them less frequently. The locomotives you weathered are very nicely done, but by SP standards, they would be "clean".

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - Herc Driver - 09-14-2010

I can only add to the applause on this one...great weathering job. Really believable. Cheers

How did you get the white-ish appearance on the fuel tank and truck assemblies? That really gives it that "old metal" look to me.

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - SSWUPinSA - 09-15-2010

Herc Driver Wrote:How did you get the white-ish appearance on the fuel tank and truck assemblies? That really gives it that "old metal" look to me.

I just airbrushed on a very thin mix of Tamiya Deck Tan Acrylic after I had sprayed the rusty truck mix and spotted the trucks with a sooty black airbrushing to simulate some greasy spots... Then finally used a light weathering powder over the details on the trucks to bring them out!

Not complicated but there are a few steps to it... Willl look into doing a pictorial when I have another loco to do...

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - Steamtrains - 09-15-2010

Hope you've got another loco to do soon.... Goldth
The "look" on those locos might lead me to "grunge-up" my UP's diesels...

Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - SSWUPinSA - 09-17-2010

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Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - SSWUPinSA - 09-17-2010

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A BLI AC6000 - UP 7500 that was one of my first loco's...not the best weathering so I have touched it up, will post newer photo's of them soon...

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My first loco I bought, Athearn genesis in the American Diesels... The SD60 and 70 are my favourite of all the UP and SP... Will run a fleet of these when I have the space in UP and SP...

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Re: SSW and UP weathering - Please comment - Gary S - 09-17-2010

Those fuel tanks are the best! Callum, you definitely have perfected the technique of fading the blacks and grays. Also love the fuel spills on the tanks. As I mentioned earlier, I would be pleased as punch if my locos looked half as good.