Hi dan! this is wade from the silver creek youtube channel. I just want to say thank you so very much for all your videos, they are so helpful. I have bought a fleet of intermountain 4750s to patch as well, and i cant even begin to describe how much your videos are helping, you truly are a master!! keep them coming please, and thanks again!!
You get the luxury of seeing this in 30 minutes. This actual car took about 3 weeks to do working off an on, maybe about 16 hours total. That is honestly nothing, some of my cars can take upwards of 25 to 30 or 40 hours. Locos are even worse!
I am in England and want to start building a US Railroad layout. Is there a web page that i can find with photographs of North American Railroad stock? I want to make sure i am weathering them accuratly but most importantly buying the correct wagons and loco's?
In some cases, yes! If there are finger prints or residues, you want to carefully scrub the model with a toothbrush and some soap and water. I'm very careful to only scrub the parts I need to clean and am careful around fine details! This is especially important on locomotives. I will always take the shell off as not to get water on electronics or the motor. I clean the wheels, truck frames, and fuel tank to remove factory grease or finger prints in most cases.
Regular oils that I have used in the past take WAY longer to dry then water mixable. The water mixable oils work well with thinner, especially over time as the oil begins to dry and become more like a paste. Trying to continue to mix them with water over time becomes more difficult. The thinner trick works very well for model application and it is preferred by many other expert modelers.
I have recently gotten into the detailing and weathering of my rolling stock and locomotives. I am wondering how you measure your reflective tape for the stripes, is there a cheat sheet online?
Maybe there are measurements somewhere, but I do mine by eye. On a hopper like this, you can get the length of the stripes by comparing against the distance between the car's ribs and cut the width so it looks in the right proportion.
