Model Railroading > 'Before and after' with unicorn

Awhile ago, I modified and weathered an Athearn ACF cement hopper using one of Darrell Sawyer's photos from his CD of BN photos as reference.
Tonight, I saw it in this train next to an unweathered one and a unicorn and other winged horse my daughter left on the railroad and thought it would make a good photo.

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Great work! What are your weathering techniques and what do you use?

RailThunder Wrote:
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> Great work! What are your weathering techniques
> and what do you use?


Diluted Unicorn poop.

Art House

looks great a late 80s train

major fade job there!

Cheers, Jim

The reference photo date is 1996 which is the era I model. To fade the car I used a curved blade to carefully scrape off most of the lettering. The Burlington Northern still has the outline of the letters but the center has turned gray. I sprayed a gray close to the car color through a mask trying to get vertical streaks then some gray chalk over that and dullcote to seal it all up.

I thought about unicorn poo but it would come out all rainbowy and I just wanted grays.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/10/17 16:09 by pmack.

PMACK,

Thanks for the info on the car and how you weathered it.

Cheers, Jim Fitch