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Once I was happy with the appearance, I painted it lightly with
an all-purpose gray primer, which is a lighter color than the
gray used on the locomotives. I am careful not to spray too
solid of a color onto the smoke (8).
When I am done painting, I hang the painted smoke upside
down to dry. This creates the effect of the smoke rising up from
the chimney. Once it was dry I clipped off most of the wire and
glue it into the hole that I had drilled into the chimney.
For the smaller smoke stacks I use only a tiny bit of cotton,
but the procedure is the same. For these, I tease only a little
bit of the cotton on the swab before painting, or I leave them
unpainted, depending on their use (9).
Some items may not have a hole in which to mount the smoke,
or may require a hole too
small to be practical. The
small pipes of rolling stock
or vehicles generally fall
into the category.
When I run into these situ-
ations, I add a very small
amount of CA cement to
the end of the pipe with a
sharp toothpick. I let it set
for a second or two before
touching the swab cot-
ton on the pipe, and then
holding it there until the
CA cement sets up.
8. The teased cotton
with a light coat of the
light gray primer.
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9. The depot with smoke added. It adds a nice touch.
When the cement is set, I pull the swab away, leaving just a
whisp of cotton smoke. This is how I added the smoke on the
smaller chimney of the Scenic Depot (9) and on some of my
vehicles (11).
I have a lumber mill with a boiler house on my layout.
Unfortunately, without the boilers being fired, the lumber mill
won’t saw any logs, which leads to no lumber being shipped.
So time for some smoke in those boiler stacks!
For the industrial smoke stacks of the boilerhouse, I used the
same process as the station smoke.
I made this smoke flowing in an upward direction, and I used
the lighter gray color like the Scenic Depot. After making the
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