New Junction - Track Weathering | No Airbrush 

You nearly answered my question. Where do trains stop in a through station? 0-6-0/ 4-6-2 etc. Two coaches, three coaches, four coaches and where will your new one stop? Just paint all the tracks in the station and the problem is solved. (Of course, new trains do not have oil leaks.) Great weathering. I learn from you every time. Regards to all New junctions Martin. (Thailand)

Great idea Rich doing a comparison test to see exactly what one wants the desired finish to be.

great idea i may give this ago on the track this is the beauty of you tube because the established channels like yourself are so gracious with there ideas and new tricks it gives new kids on the block like me the opportunity to improve my layout 👍👍

Fascinating stuff Richard. This is a job I have to do and like you won’t be using an airbrush. The results are very good too. Time to get my experimental board out and start dabbing. Paul

The still shot really helped to see the effect much clearer.

Great to see some weathering at last Richard! Good thing about it you can always add different textures etc as and when you discover them. I did mention adding some gloop inbeteen rails to replicate a biild up of oil and grime thats almost covered the sleepers. Typically seen in station areas. God im now itching to start ballasting my track just so i can weather it.

Good video, Richard. Brave man using the other halfs hairdryer.

Excellent video thank you as you haven given me some ideas for my track weathering. Love the music also.

thank you for posting very good video

Good work, patience is the name of the game! I have done my track with washes & powders great results can be obtained without the need for an airbrush.👍🏻 Enjoyed the video, looking forward to seeing the rest of the station develop.

Great video and experiment. Love what you are trying to achieve. Having just completed building my baseboards, your videos and those of Everard Junction, will save me a lot of time and effort. Ta very much

Brilliant work Richard! enjoyed the video a lot the new station is looking ace. Big inspiration to me. Regards Aidan

Great idea for in and around stations, sidings etc. In open country air brushing may still have the edge. Best of two

Hi Richard, great job on weathering your track, I am with you it always pays to do a test run before you do the real thing. Well done really nice job, and thanks for sharing. Regards George..

This is brilliant! I love the technique, I believe I may have to borrow said technique when i come to weathering my track!

Finally with some proper music that fits with British Industry. Which band is it?

Another great video Richard. Station looks amazing.

Looks very good Richard

that is a great video on doing the track. different layers. give different outcomes.

Just done exactly the same on my layout. Looks fabulous, not done the oil spill yet

Great stuff Richard a very interesting experiment with colours and painting Technics its amazing what affects can be achieved without a airbrush well done i know a lot of people use paint pens for track work for rusting up track work to dull it down then go over with the track grime i will be very interested to see i will look forward to seeing your next video thanks for sharing ... regards Pete

They look really effective, I prefer to do it by hand also. I might give the washes a try after seeing your results Joe

Nice video! I'm a big believer in painting the track with a brush and in applying washes to the ballast, rather using an airbrush. That's how I do my ballast. ...Roy

Real good video Richard I do like the effect with the watered down acrylics, and a better result by far than weathering Powers I used. Thanks for the video- very useful Garry

Great video - not so sure about the Ground Force sound track! ;-) - and I think you have to be pretty confident with an airbrush to weather your track without weathering three quarters of the layout, so using a brush is a great technique

I'm not sure I can justify the expense of an airbrush, especially as I doubt I would want to repaint locos, wagons and coaches, so I had been thinking along similar lines. I have also thought about colouring the PVA when doing the original ballasting, it would be easy and quick to do this as different shades if using Rob McCraines method of using a wash bottle rather than a syringe to apply the diluted PVA. Not seen any one else using your approach, so well done sir, a brave step and one I shall follow!

Excellent video Richard, ill definitely try this on Sealand central! 😁

Great work and saved a lot of money not using an airbrush. Great vid.

Brilliant Richard I’m not a big fan of airbrushing mostly for the cost I’m trying to make a grime colour to save more money

This is a great approach, I like the final result. I'm working on ballasting around the station now, and would be looking to weather along the same lines as this. I'm not a huge fan of the weathering pens either, but you could just run them quick along the side of the tracks to take off some of the sheen? Iain

Really great intro i love the class 67

Great tutorial will definitely help me when I come to doing this sort of thing

good job. It adds more detail to your layout.

Nice end effect on the ballast and sleepers, but I feel the rail sides need a bit more heavy-handedness on them. Rails get very grimy and rusty on the sides, it should almost look matt...

Very nice.

Richard as for the rails tey joes rusty paint ive used it on mine works great look in 1 of my videos great video though mite try this myself Cheers paul

Might need some bits of toilet paper on the track from the HST's ;) Your track looks nice though! Might have to try this for myself :P Cheers! Ed.

looks far better Richard that track needed weathering, im gonna stick with my airbrush tho, far quicker method, but its always about whats best for you Andy

Nice work! Just a quick question for you is what brand of ballast do you use? I found the best ballast for weathering is to use screened gravel rather than the commercial ballast which like Woodland scenics is usually crushed walnut shells and resists colours more than actual rock based ballast. I order some sieve screens used by labs. I then went to a friendly garden centre and asked them if I could screen their gravels. I got a good c supply (enough for many layouts!) and only had to pay a minimal amount. The reason I did this is that when I measure the commercial ballast under a microscope it is still equivalent to a small boulder. The fine ballast looks so much more realistic and takes washes much better. Looking forward to your next video I love your layout and could spend a lot of time admiring the trains running. Regards

Looos great what size paint brush did you use for the black and the sleeper grime

Looks fantastic! :)

Would love to see a flashing red light on the back of my last container wagon have you ever considered doing it for a future video? I have some electronics experience in past but would appreciate a walk through using a kit via a You Tuber showing how it should be done.

Great video as usual Richard. It's good to see that you can achieve a decent weathered finish without resorting to an airbrush. Out of interest, is that Woodland Scenics medium blended grey (or gray) ballast??

Hi Richard, what a big improvement to your layout! I also thought of this kind of track weathering before. Shouldn‘t it be possible to reach the same effect with a mixture of black and brown very thinned much cheaper acrylic colours? I think I’ll try that someday. Guido

You will find it better to dab the brush as you will get a more even coverage that way instead of sweeping strokes you want to get in the habit of doing it that way it will make life easier for you from an artist me myself i use acrylic paint as it is so much cheaper and you can mix your own shades one tube will do the hole model for three pounds a tube or even cheaper but if you cant mix shades then what you are using is well acceptable but a little expensive but great videos i have subscribed as iam starting a N gauge model in the summer as the loft is finally being converted to stand in and some lighting and empty all the crap you gain over thirty plus years lol.

Great video. I think I'll be doing this. Does it effect the running of the train though?

Hi if I was going to weather something I would try the dry brushing method because I have heard that it is very affective.

Very cool

Is it possible to see the weathering effects on track with concrete sleepers?

Hello ... I'm not familiar with the product having an orange label/blue lettering as I live in Canada. What is the manufacturer's name? You are using the "sleeper grime" colour as your base which seems like a great starting point Also, what is your experience with acrylics adhering to metal rail weathering (eg. rail web/side) especially if a wash. Thanks ~ Hugh

Great. Does getting paint on top of the rail affect the loco pickup?

Do you use cork as your underlay

Great video cheers, what's happening with the columns ??

Hi what size brush did you use please

Do you use flex track as well

what made you decide to use a wash instead of airbrushing to weather the track ?

.Hi yes very nice ,but I would clean the top rails ,so it would look has the loco s ur train have run on the rails so be a shine of Steel ,very nice sleeper s kev philipines

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