Oil leaks

[ranny9]

Oil leaks can be everywhere, caused by a lot of different things. They can be heavy, light, relatively clean, really dirty, rusty... Right now I am interested in how to simulate the leaks from cars and/or trucks travelling over wooden bridges, light use.

How do you guys and gals do it?

[Zephyrus52246]

I think most oil leaks are caused by old VWs.   


Jeff

[ranny9]

I think most oil leaks are caused by old VWs.   


Jeff

Fweeeeem! 

[ReadingBob]

   I'm about to add some to the diorama I'm working on.  I put a tiny spot (or spots) of PollyScale Oily Black where I want the stain to be and then a slightly larger spot of A&I on it to thin it out and spread it out.  Adding rust colors is a good point that I hadn't though of.  I like using umber's and sienna's mixed together to get various shades of rust.  I may try to add some rust color stains the same way - a spec of color and then some A&I or just A. 

[ranny9]

  I'm about to add some to the diorama I'm working on.  I put a tiny spot (or spots) of PollyScale Oily Black where I want the stain to be and then a slightly larger spot of A&I on it to thin it out and spread it out.  Adding rust colors is a good point that I hadn't though of.  I like using umber's and sienna's mixed together to get various shades of rust.  I may try to add some rust color stains the same way - a spec of color and then some A&I or just A.

Thanks for the tip!

[deemery]

Crude oil often has a somewhat greenish sheen to it.


dave

[bparrish]

Randy........

Dark oil stripes down the center of the road are largely gone today.  All cars and trucks before 1972 to 75 had a crank case breather that dumped whatever found it's way there over the side and only the street.  Also seals on rotating shafts were not as good then on both engines and transmissions.  All of that changed with the various emissions laws.

As for the notion that all of that stuff about VW's generating all of that is a cheap shot ! ! !

There are a litany of oil leaking jokes out there but most of them are aimed at our British friends and their cars of the same era.  I won't go there.

As for simulating it........... Get your road material down, whether plaster or some other medium.  Color it as you choose and then dry brush some slightly darker color. 

In my trolley division the tracks run through the pavement and from the track cleaning pad that I use there is a black substance that comes off and stains randomly the brick color.

Trolleys also puked all sorts of heavy grease that got tracked around.  I'm sure the city dads would like that now ! ! !

Below are some photos of the trolley district on my BN&O railroad.

see ya
Bob

[NEBrownstone]

Hey Bob, are those Orr turnouts, or did you build them up yourself?  I love street trackage.

[ranny9]

I am going to attempt to post some pictures. I followed directions but found it VERY complicated and caused me a headache! I posted in the other forum in under 3 minutes, but "choosing a category"? there was no CATEGORY to choose from... ugh! It took me 15 minutes...there has to be a faster way! This method makes me want to NOT post pictures.

Anyway, here is what I have so far...BTW, this is the decking for Groovey Jeff's Covered Bridge kit. And in retrospect, I hadn't thought of the glossy/shiny/ness of oil and grease in the real world. It's interesting how we see ordinary things everyday, but never remember what they LOOK like!

[S&S RR]

I am going to attempt to post some pictures. I followed directions but found it VERY complicated and caused me a headache! I posted in the other forum in under 3 minutes, but "choosing a category"? there was no CATEGORY to choose from... ugh! It took me 15 minutes...there has to be a faster way! This method makes me want to NOT post pictures.

Anyway, here is what I have so far...BTW, this is the decking for Groovey Jeff's Covered Bridge kit. And in retrospect, I hadn't thought of the glossy/shiny/ness of oil and grease in the real world. It's interesting how we see ordinary things everyday, but never remember what they LOOK like!

Randee

Looking good.  About the pictures on this forum - it is a pain to get use too,  but once you do it works pretty well.  It doesn't take me any longer here now that I have been doing it for a year. 

[ranny9]

Re: the pictures...I HAD to give them names, so I chose Oil Leak 1, 2, 3...then when it came time to post them, those "names" were nowhere to be found, the system had renamed them with an internal name. I had no idea whether they were being posted in the order I wanted or not! grrrrrr

[Janbouli]

Randee , if you are going to stay on the other forum aswell and post photo's there the linked way then it's really easy to just copy paste the post you did on the other forum.

The last post on my layout thread is a copy paste of the one on MRR

Final trackplan of this section, now for my achilles heel , wiring , does it matter where I connect an autoreverser and does it matter where the track is isolated , what's better between the turnout and the curves or somewhere further in the curves.

[img?]http://janbouli.com/images/trackwork/up14.jpg[?/img]

If I leave out the question marks the img  would have shown.  But I see that you use the gallery to post photo's .

Let's see if "copy image location" will work

This is your image on MRR after right clicking on it and clicking on Copy Image Location  http://www.kitforums.com/download/file.php?id=112074

Now all you have to do is click on the Mona Lisa here and click Control V, or right click and click Paste, what I did for the image below.

[Janbouli]

Another advantage of the linked photo's  is that they show up large and we don't have to do the silly clicking to see the real size photo.

[ranny9]

Thanks Jan! When I started this thread this morning, I thought I was here on THIS forum, so I had to continue. Next time I will be more careful. It seems silly to post identical posts to both forums, doesn't it.

[ReadingBob]

That's an awesome looking car!