It has been a few days since I have been able to get any modeling done, but I do now have a nice new area to work on models with better lighting, and much less clutter. Took a few days of reorganizing, cleaning, building some things, electrical..... but now I have an area that no one will be piling down with things.
My first project back is this 56' covered hopper. I have not done much weathering in the past and decided to try my first attempt on this Bachmann covered hopper that we got in a lot of stuff. We had two, so the first picture you see is actually the one that I have weathered sitting next to the car as it comes from Bachmann.
I worked on the weathering in stages. First I did some washes and highlighting with the airbrush with a few different color paints (sand, dust, and a custom mix of railroad tie brown and sand). Once the paint had dried I started working on it with chalks. I used 4 or 5 different colors of chalk from a flesh tone to black. I haven't touched the trucks yet, so that will be starting project for tomorrow.
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