The pictures are in the attached albom.
Good work Pete on your first WX'ing attempt. It's one of those things that's easy to catch on to.
Gon on the right looks good. Ok, Both are actually good, left one looks like it worked in a steel mill as they get the rusty orange look from the heat/chemicals/air.
However, when doing rust, avoid the brighter orange rust color (powder,chalk,etc) Darker rust orange,browns and black work best. Older rust becomes brown and black. Best part of WX'ing a car is it takes a lot of effort to really botch the job. You can either wipe it clean and start over or work in layers. It's easy to add a new layer to cover a portion of something you aren't happy with. Rust splotches take some time perfecting and building up. (I've dabbed a small bit of CA glue and scuffed with sanding stick to get that rough scaley look after the brown/black paint added.
The next challenge to WXing is getting the lettering to take on worn,faded,chipped effect.
Usually takes several layers to produce the finished product. I've yet to apply a single weathering session and get the final product. I think Pelle Soeborg says the same thing in his book. "Done in a Day" is an excellent investment, If it isn't the weathering you have an issue with, it was worth seeing his method of doing something that you may have figured on your own or have a easier/better way.
Best advise is to take photos of WX'ed cars in a yard and note the patterns rust and wear/tear take on. Most cylinderical hopper cars weather in the same fashion, gons usually get banged up in a similar manner of other gons. Covered hoppers (square sided style- PS2 hoppers) rust and fade the same as each other. You usually won't see rusticle? (rust icycle) on a tank car, nor will you see the top half form a faded rust blend on a boxcar like you see on cylinder hopper.
Last is the travelling effects of WXing, not sure what else to call it, the weathing effect on a car from rolling along tracks for a period....spray kicked up from wheels, dust that gets blown up against the end walls, grease/oil/rust/dust accumulation around couplers and doors and trucks.
I enjoy doing general body weathering and rust and fade, but find the ends too tedious with respect to wheel spray.
Very last which some may be against but it is part of RRing, and that is grafitti. I hate the gang symbols and the stupid stuff like initials, gang stuff repeated along the length of car. I have some leniency towards murals.
Sorry for so lengthy but it is something I had fun in contributing to group for a change. When I get some time I will post some pics of my weathered cars.
Hope you try some more cars Pete. You will have fun on the next one. Then get brave and do a loco. It is worth the effort and adds to realism when you have dirty and/or old rusty cars in the fleet as opposed to a string of shiny cars.
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Edited by dl85vette at 08/17/2011 7:51 PM PDT
