10-01-2021, 04:56 AM
I finished off the gondola. I wanted to weather it fairly heavily so I went a slightly unconventional route. I found a similar technique on you tube that I followed.
I first gave the entire outside of the car a spray of grimey black. Not enough to cover completely but a decent overspray. at the same time I painted the trucks (less wheelsets) in the same grimey black.
Then I started to scrub the grimey black back off using a q-tip and Walthers Solvaset. I had tried this on a test piece using isopropyl alcohol but I found that the alcohol worked slower and turned the undercoat of dulcoat a milky white. For some reason I have 5-6 bottles of solvaset to I decided to try that instead.
It took a while but I liked how it turned out. the grimey black stayed in the corners and rivet lines where the q-tip couldn't reach and the rest of the car still had various levels of staining in the paint.
After that I sprayed the wheelsets rust and added the trucks onto the car. I gave the car and the trucks a very light spray of Polly-s dirt in some areas and called it done
I was going to decal the depressed flat but I needed to give it a second coat of oxide red. More on that soon.
I first gave the entire outside of the car a spray of grimey black. Not enough to cover completely but a decent overspray. at the same time I painted the trucks (less wheelsets) in the same grimey black.
Then I started to scrub the grimey black back off using a q-tip and Walthers Solvaset. I had tried this on a test piece using isopropyl alcohol but I found that the alcohol worked slower and turned the undercoat of dulcoat a milky white. For some reason I have 5-6 bottles of solvaset to I decided to try that instead.
It took a while but I liked how it turned out. the grimey black stayed in the corners and rivet lines where the q-tip couldn't reach and the rest of the car still had various levels of staining in the paint.
After that I sprayed the wheelsets rust and added the trucks onto the car. I gave the car and the trucks a very light spray of Polly-s dirt in some areas and called it done
I was going to decal the depressed flat but I needed to give it a second coat of oxide red. More on that soon.