02-24-2023, 07:26 PM
While I pour the Realistic Water in stages (and trying hard not to get any refuse in there while I do it) and watching it dry, I've gotta find something else to work on. Turned my attentions to my only 2-bay concrete hopper that hadn't been weathered to date. This one was a D&H that I'd forgotten I picked up. It ended up back in the bowels of my storage area and I found it about a month ago and lashed it to the rest of the concrete local, but it looked quite out of place - it was a shiny silver car amongst the beaten and abused.
Although this isn't the car I'm working on (mine has rectangular covers on the roof), you'll get a feel for what it looked like before I started in on it:
To take the shine off of it (it really was a bright silver paint), I hit the entire model with a coat of Tamiya X-21 flat base. That stuff dries to a white chalky coating that when dry, you rub off with the end of a brush to give a "fade" effect. The flat base also gives the rest of your washes and powders something to grab on to.
I did a gray wash on most of the model to further dull things up and then proceeded to do a wash of burnt umber on the lower sections followed by a rust wash on the top of the hopper body and on the ends. Wheels and trucks got the standard gray/rust paint.
Added a set of Kaltrak decals (one on each side) and then got my PanPastels out. Hit the ribs with some rust, added a bit on the roof and hit some details. Brushed a liberal amount of brown on the underside and then added a bit of gray to the sides. Hit the whole model with a good spray of Dullcote and let her dry.
Here it is just prior to the caboose and looking a lot more like the rest of my covered hopper fleet.
Although this isn't the car I'm working on (mine has rectangular covers on the roof), you'll get a feel for what it looked like before I started in on it:
To take the shine off of it (it really was a bright silver paint), I hit the entire model with a coat of Tamiya X-21 flat base. That stuff dries to a white chalky coating that when dry, you rub off with the end of a brush to give a "fade" effect. The flat base also gives the rest of your washes and powders something to grab on to.
I did a gray wash on most of the model to further dull things up and then proceeded to do a wash of burnt umber on the lower sections followed by a rust wash on the top of the hopper body and on the ends. Wheels and trucks got the standard gray/rust paint.
Added a set of Kaltrak decals (one on each side) and then got my PanPastels out. Hit the ribs with some rust, added a bit on the roof and hit some details. Brushed a liberal amount of brown on the underside and then added a bit of gray to the sides. Hit the whole model with a good spray of Dullcote and let her dry.
Here it is just prior to the caboose and looking a lot more like the rest of my covered hopper fleet.
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