33. 16916 sits on the main waiting its turn to be
switched out of the train. The runoff from last night’s
rain is still standing, creating a nice mirror effect.
Rustbucket weathering - 17
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Those are the basic 12 steps I used
to replicate a Soo Line rust-bucket
boxcar. Here is no. 16916 in all of its
decrepit and corroding state.
All-in-all I have approximately 52
hours wrapped up in numerous ses-
sions on this car. All the weather-
ing was done without the use of an
airbrush, using inexpensive art sup-
plies. A nicely weathered model can
be achieved with cheap acrylic craft
paints, inexpensive brushes, and pas-
tels. It is very easy achieve a believ-
able representation of a prototype
model without draining one’s bank
account. All it takes is a little time.
Additional images of this Soo Line
model and galleries of my additional
works can be viewed at:
MRH-Aug 2014
