Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 2) Started 2/25/17

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Here are a couple pictures of Isaac's after round two of the weathering process.

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It's starting to look like a structure that has spent it's life in coal dust.


Now, for all those detail castings.

[cuse]

Looks great John! Nice work.


John

[S&S RR]

Looks great John! Nice work.


John

John


Thanks for stopping by the thread and the kind words.

[PRR Modeler]

Very nice John.

[deemery]

A suggestion:  I'd expect some rain streaking down from the letters (as coal dust collects on the letters and then gets washed away.)


But overall I think you nailed the colors!


dave

[S&S RR]

Very nice John.

Thanks Curt

[S&S RR]

A suggestion:  I'd expect some rain streaking down from the letters (as coal dust collects on the letters and then gets washed away.)


But overall I think you nailed the colors!


dave

Dave


Thanks for the suggestion. I will get back up there and do some work.  I'm going to have to dry brush it without the alcohol.  I painted the letters with red acrylic paint and as soon as I touched them with the alcohol and chalk the red started to run.  I painted them over two months ago so it wasn't a paint drying time issue. I've never had that happen before and need to do some experimenting to see what's going on.

[deemery]

Could try the streaking with 'wet water' instead of alcohol.


dave

[S&S RR]

Could try the streaking with 'wet water' instead of alcohol.


dave

Dave


I did some experimenting today with the acrylic paint and the alcohol and it does dissolve the paint. It's not as noticeable with lighter colors but with the red I pickup up the color with my brush.  Lesson learned.  I did go back and dry brush the letters with the dark pigment and then streaked it with some water.  It looks pretty good.  Sorry, forgot to take a picture tonight.  I will follow-up.

[S&S RR]

Today, I built the platform for the Mackenzie build. It's hard to build things with legs that are not square and broken boards.  At least for me. I think everything needs to be square and straight.  Anyway, I'm having fun building a run down building.  Here are a few progress pictures.

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The test fit.

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The next step will be to get the color right.  Stay tuned.