07-03-2022, 03:39 PM
So, let's get to some explanation and pictures. I masked off the stripes, the CNW markings (they also looked new in the proto photo)....
Then I made up a gray acrylic wash. A dab of white, a drop of black, and then I drizzled water into the container until I had a runny, milky mixture. I removed the box from each trailer and applied the wash liberally to all surfaces. On the top I went from front to back, everything else was from top to bottom. Hit the trailer frame, wheels and tires at the same time. Plastic has a shine that a wash takes right away.
Of course, I wasn't quite happy with the wash, but that's the beauty of acrylics. I wet my thumb and adjusted the depth of the paint, pulling paint off the trailer in certain spots - to simulate how either stainless steel or aluminum panels oxidize - it gets filmy in spots, gray in others. I then added some brown to my wash and hit the frames for the onset of rust. Again, if I didn't like how it looked anywhere, a little water and pressure. Hit the trailer frame and wheels with this too and then dabbed some black acrylic paint over the washes.
Then I got out my PanPastels and my makeup brushes. Started with a small stiff brush and worked black into the crevices and panel edges and then got a big brush out to hit the top passenger side corner, which if you were a trucker in the 70's you knew you'd always have diesel exhaust hitting that corner of the trailer.
Then a stiff eyebrow brush to work rust into the same crevices.
It was time for the unveiling - took off the masked areas.
And then I had to put them on a flat car and check out the finished product.
Happy 4th everybody!
Then I made up a gray acrylic wash. A dab of white, a drop of black, and then I drizzled water into the container until I had a runny, milky mixture. I removed the box from each trailer and applied the wash liberally to all surfaces. On the top I went from front to back, everything else was from top to bottom. Hit the trailer frame, wheels and tires at the same time. Plastic has a shine that a wash takes right away.
Of course, I wasn't quite happy with the wash, but that's the beauty of acrylics. I wet my thumb and adjusted the depth of the paint, pulling paint off the trailer in certain spots - to simulate how either stainless steel or aluminum panels oxidize - it gets filmy in spots, gray in others. I then added some brown to my wash and hit the frames for the onset of rust. Again, if I didn't like how it looked anywhere, a little water and pressure. Hit the trailer frame and wheels with this too and then dabbed some black acrylic paint over the washes.
Then I got out my PanPastels and my makeup brushes. Started with a small stiff brush and worked black into the crevices and panel edges and then got a big brush out to hit the top passenger side corner, which if you were a trucker in the 70's you knew you'd always have diesel exhaust hitting that corner of the trailer.
Then a stiff eyebrow brush to work rust into the same crevices.
It was time for the unveiling - took off the masked areas.
And then I had to put them on a flat car and check out the finished product.
Happy 4th everybody!
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