Weathered Coaches

[Rob Pulham]

We were at the Severn Valley over the weekend delivering some of Chris's paintings for the Summer RailArt exhibition and while we were looking at the trains I noted that a number of coaches were very well weathered and that photos of them would be quite useful for weathering of model coaches.

 

[Richard Gawler]

The thing that strikes me is how muted the colours appear. Much "weathering" is done by adding new layers of powders or whatever, but really the underlying colour has faded in the elements.

 

[Rob Pulham]

The thing that strikes me is how muted the colours appear. Much "weathering" is done by adding new layers of powders or whatever, but really the underlying colour has faded in the elements.

Especially when you compare it to this which is obviously recently painted and also taken on Friday afternoon..

 

[jonte]

The thing that strikes me is how muted the colours appear. Much "weathering" is done by adding new layers of powders or whatever, but really the underlying colour has faded in the elements.

If I was having a bash, Richard, I’d mist on a coating of flat white acrylic or enamel with an airbrush to start, or a translucent oil paint (China White?) if using a brush which I’d soften with further soft brushing if I didn’t have access to an airbrush, to create the faded paint look. This would be followed by a ‘wetted’ application of thinned oils or enamels - perhaps even some of the proprietary products say by AK Interactive - to create the streaks, applied with a long bristled brush with most of the hairs removed.

I’m not sure I’d bother with powders for this, unless it was part of the ‘wetted’ application mentioned.

jonte

 

[AJC]

Especially when you compare it to this which is obviously recently painted and also taken on Friday afternoon..

Once upon a time, in another life and another place, dad gave that one it's first preservation paint job (a later form of the LMS livery). That looks quite superb.

Adam