J
oe Steimann has that talent to make freight cars to look
used, and he makes it look easy.
He has learned what works by experimenting, and looking
at prototype photos. Oil paints are very easy to work with
because they are very forgiving, he says. If the streaks don’t
look right, wipe the paint off, and start over with no damage
to the model or its graphics. His color of choice for rust and
scrapes is Van Dyke Brown.
Joe models the Missouri Pacific in the 1980s and he came
up with a few weathered locomotives in HO and G scale for
this shoot.
Be sure to watch the video included in this presentation. It
features some very realistic run-bys, filmed outdoors with
the same quality you have come to expect with my still pho-
tography. The HO scale run-bys raise the bar for the video
presentation of models.
What’s neat column - 2
MRH-Jun 2013
