Ed: I have done that in the past, and have some good examples to show for it. The problem is, I just haven't set up my airbrush for about twenty years.
I have been experimenting this morning, though, and find that if I take a small 1"x1" block of wood about 1-1/2" long and soak one side with some Remington Rem-Oil, and run that over the rail heads first, cleaning paint from the rail heads is a lot easier. I've got most of what I have done back in service, and I'll be posting some photos of my efforts. I'm with you - painting the rail looks a lot better, even if it is time consuming, but I think I'm getting a handle on that, now, too. "S"tring Bob ______________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "Ed" <loize...@...> wrote: > > > 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. > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
