11-16-2025, 06:53 PM
Weathering/reweathering... Here's a shot of the befores (as discussed, I'd hit the intakes and exhausts last night):
Goals are different here, I want to redingify the PC unit with a prototypical goal of this: CR 2205 Rutherford, PA 11-12-1983 | Conrail Photo Archive, and the Reading unit will be weathered and THEN patched with CR decals to mimic this: CR 2181 Tallmadge, OH 09-12-77 | Conrail Photo Archive. The Reading unit's paint is way to bright, so in the first phase I will fade the paint with (maybe) multiple coats of Tamiya base mixed with rubbing alcohol with handbrushing between coats to remove excess chalkiness. I'm pretty happy with the base color of the PC unit, but I just need to adjust the rust placement, so my first order of business there is to give the whole unit a gray wash (arcrylic white and black mix with rubbing alcohol and applied from top to bottom with an unstiff paintbrush. Here's each unit after a coat drying on each (no removal of base yet on the Reading unit):
As I scrutinized the prototype photos (Charlie's photos were really helpful as well), I noticed that Bachmann had a yellow stripe below the deck on the sides (rather than green) and the vertical portions of the handrail stanchions were green. That took mulitple handpainted coats to get right.
I hit the Reading unit with a wash of gray first - it emphasizes each panel and crease in the shell and mutes the yellow even more.
Next came rust wash, but applied in keeping with the prototype. Here's the end result. I still have to patch the Reading unit, but that'll wait until later this week. The final touch will be some small application of PanPastels after the patching, but I'm happy with the aging process to date.
Goals are different here, I want to redingify the PC unit with a prototypical goal of this: CR 2205 Rutherford, PA 11-12-1983 | Conrail Photo Archive, and the Reading unit will be weathered and THEN patched with CR decals to mimic this: CR 2181 Tallmadge, OH 09-12-77 | Conrail Photo Archive. The Reading unit's paint is way to bright, so in the first phase I will fade the paint with (maybe) multiple coats of Tamiya base mixed with rubbing alcohol with handbrushing between coats to remove excess chalkiness. I'm pretty happy with the base color of the PC unit, but I just need to adjust the rust placement, so my first order of business there is to give the whole unit a gray wash (arcrylic white and black mix with rubbing alcohol and applied from top to bottom with an unstiff paintbrush. Here's each unit after a coat drying on each (no removal of base yet on the Reading unit):
As I scrutinized the prototype photos (Charlie's photos were really helpful as well), I noticed that Bachmann had a yellow stripe below the deck on the sides (rather than green) and the vertical portions of the handrail stanchions were green. That took mulitple handpainted coats to get right.
I hit the Reading unit with a wash of gray first - it emphasizes each panel and crease in the shell and mutes the yellow even more.
Next came rust wash, but applied in keeping with the prototype. Here's the end result. I still have to patch the Reading unit, but that'll wait until later this week. The final touch will be some small application of PanPastels after the patching, but I'm happy with the aging process to date.
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