Heavy Rust and Tarps | Weathering Model Railway 

Amazing result! A cheaper alternative to the paper shaper could be watered down pva, works just as well in my opinion.

Great, I’m dying to try that now, thanks.

Fantastic and well explained how too do this great work my friend absolutely love this channel thanks a lot for doing this for us all to learn more great technique's to improve ourselves keep up the great work

I love the finished product and the tutorial on the tarps. Might have to give that a shot here for my logging line. Thanks for the great content!

I make my own coal loads from a big old chunk of bituminous coal (anthracite would have been easier to use but no railroads used soft coal). I smash it with a hammer on an old piece (about 12 inches) of rail I got from the Central of Georgia (120 pound rail - mainline). I use the really small pieces for HO gauge and the larger pieces I save for my Lionel 027 gauge. I usually make my own weathering chalks. I use the kitchen grater I got at a dollar store. I grind up some white chalk and mix some food coloring in a communion cup (great little cups for mixing paints). I then add my chalk and stir it up with a tooth pick. I then pour it onto my cutting mat and wait for it to dry. Then I use a single edged razor blade to cut it up as if you were cutting out a line of cocaine. :-) Then I put it back into the communion cup for storage until I need it. For trucks, wheels, freight car bodies and locos to add rust I use REAL rust. I take a roll of fine steel wool and put it into a quart jar and fill it up with white vinegar and set it on a window sill so the sun can shine on it. After a month or two, I pour the liquid out into a stainless photo tray from my darkroom (10X14). After it is completely dry I use a single edged razor blade scraper and scrape the rust out of the tray. It usually comes out as a fine powder. I then store it in a snuff container. Depending on how long you leave the steel wool in the vinegar my batches come out with different colors of rust, i.e., some are orange and others are a deeper colored red. When I get ready to use it I put several scoops of my rust into a plastic communion cup (neat little cups for mixing paints) and add some alcohol, Elmer's white glue and a dab of water soluble glycerin. Then I just brush it on. If I want an area where the rust has eaten through the metal (plastic) I use my X-acto knife and make some gouges in the sides of a car and fill it up with my rust. To seal the rust I usually topcoat it with a flat acrylic clear coat. It looks very realistic 'cause it is REAL rust! Happy Railroading! W Rusty Lane in eastern Tennessee

Will you ever stop being a legend, man? :)

That looks so good I made a cover out of toilet paper , used one sheet then I used a old tea bag waited till that dryed and painted it but yours looks a lot better

Another great video. Thank you. I had no idea paper shaper was a thing! I’ll redo the tarp on my Smokey Joe using this method. I used das clay finely rolled but always though it looked a little on the thick side.

wow that looks fantastic i have got the blue CR livery 0-4-0 i will be weathering that soon.

Excellent video, superb job! If you haven’t already could you do a weathering of a Hornby Ruston?

nice work dude!

Have you got a link to where you got the chimney and handrail knobs? I've got a smokey Joe in similar need!

Prefer the process or product.?i enjoy the process of weathering.i repaint triang coaches into irish liveries