Gary S' 2010 Summer Challenge - Bridge

[Gary S]

I used the old wet brush on dust trick to make the streaks. Put a little weathering powder along the top of what you are weathering, then take a damp brush and pull down over the dust, the more strokes you use, the finer the streaks will be. Great technique to put water streaks rollingstock too. It is quite controllable, take off as much as you want by frequently cleaning the brush and streaking down over and over. After that, I went over the water stains again with brown and black colored pencils, then used the pencils to put some streaks on the ballast retainer, and rubbed it with my fingers to blend it a bit.

   

   

   

BTW... in the first photo above, I took a cropped image of the side of the model bridge from the third photo and superimposed it on the real bridge. I think it is quite convincing.