05-28-2014, 01:32 AM
Reworked the weathering with daylight. A small brush with alcohol helped to distribute the spots I did last night with a cotton swab. I like cotton swabs for weathering because they have a different fingerprint from a brush. But in this case did they not reach into the very corners and it looked like finger paint from the kindergarten.
Weathering is like noise one of my very sensitive topics. A fairly nice done model is in general absolute okey with me. Except the noise of locomotives and the weathering must be (close to) perfect to satisfy me. I can handle noise by using Atlas engines but my weathering in general disappoints me every time. I weathered a lot of my boxcars but at the next morning I consider them as simply ruined and try to wash off as much as possible to recover them. That is the reason why I made the statement that in my eyes a clean model looks better to me than a not perfect weathered model. My usual bypass is to use a simple black wash only. That is not really weathering but it is sufficient to remove the brand new touch.
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Weathering is like noise one of my very sensitive topics. A fairly nice done model is in general absolute okey with me. Except the noise of locomotives and the weathering must be (close to) perfect to satisfy me. I can handle noise by using Atlas engines but my weathering in general disappoints me every time. I weathered a lot of my boxcars but at the next morning I consider them as simply ruined and try to wash off as much as possible to recover them. That is the reason why I made the statement that in my eyes a clean model looks better to me than a not perfect weathered model. My usual bypass is to use a simple black wash only. That is not really weathering but it is sufficient to remove the brand new touch.
Reinhard