These are old pictures from 2002, when I drove across the country to Toronto to deliver a largish HOn3 module. On the way home …
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Small outfit, small equipment
Getting restored
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This one is “cute”.
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The quick version of Winnipeg weather: Very cold in the Winter, prone to flooding in the Spring, way too many mosquitoes in the Summer … that leaves the Fall, eh!
Oh but Hans, I like this.
I was going to try that kind of paint effect on my sagged boxcars, but I was afraid I would really mess it up.
How could you mess that up?
Steve I had weathered the wood so nice, I was afarid I would cover it too much with paint and not get that look.
David Maynard said:
Steve I had weathered the wood so nice, I was afarid I would cover it too much with paint and not get that look.
You’d be amazed what a stiff, small brass brush will do to that. Besides, with a bit of practice you can get that look by just using stain; works very nicely on real wood. (http://rhb-grischun.ca/phpBB3/images/smilies/3.gif)
You can also buy weathering paint sets .
They are available for simulating wood and rust and work very well .
Mike
David Maynard said:
Steve I had weathered the wood so nice, I was afarid I would cover it too much with paint and not get that look.
You could use the “dry brush technique,” and just add a little bit of color at a time.
Whichever way you do it, take a piece of wood to practice on first!
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Mike, I simulated the weathered wood just fine, its the bits of red paint I didn’t even attempt.
Steve Featherkile said:
Yeah, yeah perfectly logical … until that “if only I had known” moment strikes with Murphy snickering in the background. 
I was trying to agree with you. I guess something got lost in translation when it crossed the border and went north a hundred or so miles.
Steve Featherkile said:
I was trying to agree with you. I guess something got lost in translation when it crossed the border and went north a hundred or so miles.
Yeah cr… happens at the border going either way.