Hello everyone,
Prior to signing up to this forum I had just purchased a Spectrum 2-8-0 and I was happy with the way it looked.
Now, after reading so much on this forum and getting advice from all of you I couldn't not weather my locomotive - I think Gene started me down on this path. By the way now I have about 25 steam locomotives. Six of them are Model Power, four of them are Bachmann standard but the rest of them are all Bachmann Spectrum. Spectrum is good stuff I don't need to tell you guys this but man...
I printed out this thread and headed to my LHS. I picked out all the stuff I needed and went to the desk and asked for advice but I didn't need any. I had everything I needed based off of this thread.
As you all know, I will be modeling Union Pacific and Nacionales De Mexico.
I found some Diesel Decals that I can use on the steam engines and they look just fine. I found plenty of pictures through google so I can designate actual engine numbers. For the actual weathering I have some books I picked up at Barnes&Noble in the bargain section and boy what a deal on these books. Now I know I can get some custom decals made because I will need to change some rolling stock to NdeM but first things first. I want to finish my locomotives.
I began work tonight. I started with the Spectrums 2-6-6-2's and so far things look good. I will take some pictures soon and post them for you guys. Mind you, this is my first shot at this.
But I wanted to run this by you guys. Based on whatever photos I find, the boilers are usually shiny. All the lines around the boiler are a matte black probably from gunk building up. The mechanism and the whole section under the boiler is a matte brownish/grayish black. A few details here and there like the coupler and snow plow can show some reddish signs of rust.
Also by making the boiler shiny it will really contrast against the matte, filthy looking bottom of the machine.
The tender will be shiny as well but the bottom portion will be dusty looking. I want to portray the railroads in a period of prosperity.
Now I know that most likely NdeM had all used locomotives but I'm sure they had a booming economy at one point they probably kept their locomotives pretty clean. I just bought a DVD titled "Ferrocarril Pacifico" and man, their equipment looked in bad shape.
Anyway,
Like always I wait for your comments and proceed from them.
Thank you all for your contributions to this thread. This has become my go-to guide when I need instructions. For pictures I got some books and google as well.
By the way, what's a good brand for airbrush equipment? I read somewhere here to just get a decent compressor at home depot.
Prior to signing up to this forum I had just purchased a Spectrum 2-8-0 and I was happy with the way it looked.
Now, after reading so much on this forum and getting advice from all of you I couldn't not weather my locomotive - I think Gene started me down on this path. By the way now I have about 25 steam locomotives. Six of them are Model Power, four of them are Bachmann standard but the rest of them are all Bachmann Spectrum. Spectrum is good stuff I don't need to tell you guys this but man...
I printed out this thread and headed to my LHS. I picked out all the stuff I needed and went to the desk and asked for advice but I didn't need any. I had everything I needed based off of this thread.
As you all know, I will be modeling Union Pacific and Nacionales De Mexico.
I found some Diesel Decals that I can use on the steam engines and they look just fine. I found plenty of pictures through google so I can designate actual engine numbers. For the actual weathering I have some books I picked up at Barnes&Noble in the bargain section and boy what a deal on these books. Now I know I can get some custom decals made because I will need to change some rolling stock to NdeM but first things first. I want to finish my locomotives.
I began work tonight. I started with the Spectrums 2-6-6-2's and so far things look good. I will take some pictures soon and post them for you guys. Mind you, this is my first shot at this.
But I wanted to run this by you guys. Based on whatever photos I find, the boilers are usually shiny. All the lines around the boiler are a matte black probably from gunk building up. The mechanism and the whole section under the boiler is a matte brownish/grayish black. A few details here and there like the coupler and snow plow can show some reddish signs of rust.
Also by making the boiler shiny it will really contrast against the matte, filthy looking bottom of the machine.
The tender will be shiny as well but the bottom portion will be dusty looking. I want to portray the railroads in a period of prosperity.
Now I know that most likely NdeM had all used locomotives but I'm sure they had a booming economy at one point they probably kept their locomotives pretty clean. I just bought a DVD titled "Ferrocarril Pacifico" and man, their equipment looked in bad shape.
Anyway,
Like always I wait for your comments and proceed from them.
Thank you all for your contributions to this thread. This has become my go-to guide when I need instructions. For pictures I got some books and google as well.
By the way, what's a good brand for airbrush equipment? I read somewhere here to just get a decent compressor at home depot.