Rick's adventures on the weathering bench

Well well.  It has apparently been three years since I was here.  I haven't been idle on the weathering bench but many of the results have already appeared on layout topics.

I recently purchased a trio of Dapol "Grampus" steel-bodied ballast wagons.   Two have been weathered using rust and black; the third has those plus dark green.  The plastic load has also been stippled with a mix of colours from "dirty white" to black with a couple of shades of buff in the mix too.  The lighting used may have washed out a little of the effect especially on the ballast loads.

Here's a few OO-9 items which have been somewhat dirtied up since leaving their boxes.  Two Bachmann Baldwin-outline steam locos have received different levels of weathering.  The lighter of the two had been the "in service" loco when the layout is on show with the well-rusted one shown as the outof-service spare.  It could have been hastily pressed into service had the other failed on show but it never has.  I then accidentally discovered that the "rusty" one is fitted with a sound chip! It wasn't sold as as sound-fitted and I run DC so I was very surprised when it suddenly emitted hissing and chuffing.  It has therefore shared duties on the layout's last two outings.  The "manager's saloon" is a grimy Peco 4-wheeler and the wagons are again Peco items; they are credible representations of the ubiquitous "rugga" V-skip wagoin of which thousands were built for many indistrial lines.  I have nibbled the edges with Xuron cutters and pliers, applied a costing of rust and then loaded one rake (9 wagons) with small ballast as loads.  The other rake of 9 is the empty set so that a train can run loaded from the quarry and return empty.  A few wagons are intentionally broken as scrap and left lying around as would often be found on industrial lines.


 

All looks good, Rick. Nice surprise with the sound loco.

Gwiwer said

Well well.  It has apparently been three years since I was here.  I haven't been idle on the weathering bench but many of the results have already appeared on layout topics.

I recently purchased a trio of Dapol "Grampus" steel-bodied ballast wagons.   Two have been weathered using rust and black; the third has those plus dark green.  The plastic load has also been stippled with a mix of colours from "dirty white" to black with a couple of shades of buff in the mix too.  The lighting used may have washed out a little of the effect especially on the ballast loads.

From “Post #290,259”, 26th May 2024, 10:13 pm

Very fine weathering 👍 What are you doing with the numbers?

Cheers,
Claus

Claus Ellef said

Gwiwer said

Well well.  It has apparently been three years since I was here.  I haven't been idle on the weathering bench but many of the results have already appeared on layout topics.

I recently purchased a trio of Dapol "Grampus" steel-bodied ballast wagons.   Two have been weathered using rust and black; the third has those plus dark green.  The plastic load has also been stippled with a mix of colours from "dirty white" to black with a couple of shades of buff in the mix too.  The lighting used may have washed out a little of the effect especially on the ballast loads.

From “Post #290,259”, 26th May 2024, 10:13 pm

Very fine weathering 👍 What are you doing with the numbers?

Cheers,
Claus

From “Post #290,263”, 27th May 2024, 6:57 am

Thank you.  I don't propose to change the wagon numbers as they are small enough to not be noticed at normal viewing distance.

I found some more pictures of those little skip wagons showing just how tiny they are.  And more detail of the "nibbled" edges, loading and weathering