> I have a question regarding weathering rail <snip>
> 1. How do you paint the rail?
> 2. What color do you paint it?
> 3 Do you even bother <snip>?
> What do YOU do?
> Bob Nicholson
Bob....
In all honesty, I ring up my good train buddy who brings over his air brush and
he sprays it for me. My job is to cover up all the existing scenery with thin
plastic sheets so that the droplets/mist do not spoil the other colors. That
alone can take quite some time. With the airbrush technique, he can smoothly
blend the rusted rail color with the surrounding tie plates, ties, ballast,
nearby grass/weeds, etc. so that it all looks more or less somewhat uniform.
Not exactly uniform, mind you, because of the effects of grease, oil, sand, new
clean ballast, etc. But certainly a lot better than silver-colored rail on
dark brown shiney plastic ties surrounded by pale gray ballast. Time to go
look at a real RR and see how the rusty/dusty colors are fully integrated.
The color is a mix of many Floquil paints with the emphasis on RUST. Then with
splotches of colors both darker and lighter faintly applied here and there.
Subtle to be sure, but makes a difference.
Sure I bother because it looks a lot better. More like the real thing.
Everyone draws their line somewhere and my line is where it is for me. For
others the line is elsewhere. And that's OK since we are all pretending to be
artists and can use that infamous license.
Cheers....Ed L.
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