Re: Question about weathering
Aley, Jeff A
Brianna, it seems, independently discovered one of the corollaries to Murphy’s Law: “There are two kinds of dirt – the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.”
Regards,
-Jeff
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Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 7:43 AM To: main@realstmfc.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Question about weathering
Ray, Jim,
Additional commentary interspersed ;)
As a rule of thumb, everything goes towards a mid-tone. Brianna, my daughter, and I gave a clinic at an SER NMRA annual convention when she was the tender age of 5. She had many things to contribute, but perhaps the most seminal was “If it is light, make it darker, and if it is dark, make it lighter”. BTW, the old theater adage “don’t work with children and animals” is entirely true. Brianna stole the show.
And no pressure, but if a 5-year old can weather cars, so can you ;)
Except passenger cars and head end cars, which may have a more all-over weathering pattern, with some horizontal aspects. Locomotives also have patterns that both relate to gravity and movement.
Vary this color to vary your weathering. Alternative are Harbor Mist Grey, Railroad tie brown,
In real life, some equipment can retain a shine, whilst being weathered. However, I have never found that gloss looks anything but “toy-like” on a model, even if the prototype was shiny.
And remember that there are infinite shades of rust.
I try to use different methods to mix things up to avoid the everything looks the same problem, but also to build skills with different media.
Regards Bruce
Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."
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