Athearn Rotary Snowplow

[doctorwayne]

...one question what shade do you paint underside.....

Jim, that colour was a mixed colour which is one of the four which I use when painting steam locomotives.  It's either the one I use for boilers or the one for running gear.  All but one have black as the main colour, with white, grey, brown and sometimes red added in varying amounts. The fifth colour also uses black as its base, but gets a lot more of the other colours, and doesn't end up looking much like black at all.


Here's a freshly painted locomotive, with weathering not yet added (other than that which I've done by using the varied base colours....



...It's not overly noticeable in photos, but the tender's sides and the cab are blackest, the boiler and tender deck less-so, and the running gear of the loco and tender lighter still.  The smoke box and firebox are the lightest, with the most colour additions.  (While the cylinder casting looks similar to the smokebox in colour, it's actually the same paint as the boiler, and is simply catching light due to its side not being perpendicular.)

This one's had a light weathering added, as per the owner's preference...



...because the colours need to be regularly replenished, the tones do vary, and locos painted at different times have variations....





Wayne