when applied with an internal-mix airbrush, it gives a nice ef-
fect. Mix up three washes of paint. The first is two parts Flat
Black, one part Gunship Gray, and 24 parts thinner. This wash
gives a nice exhaust color and should be sprayed on the roof,
particularly ahead of and behind the exhaust stack. Next mix
up a wash of one part Dark Skin Tone Base to eight parts thin-
ner; this is a nice dirt color and should be sprayed on the pilots,
steps, trucks, and fuel tanks. Finally mix up a wash of one part
Sand to eight parts thinner; this is a light gray-beige color and
should be sprayed around the trucks.
Seal the weathering with another clear coat. In this case I used
Testors Dullcote thinned with lacquer thinner and applied with
an airbrush. I tried not to get any Dullcote on the sides of the
hood and cab, so they would keep the bit of gloss from the pre-
vious clear coat and the locomotive would still look like it had
been recently painted.
Use Krystal Klear for water
sight glass ...
Install lengths of A-Line chain across the openings in the front
and rear handrails. Dry-brush the chain with the same blue
paint as used on the rest of the model. Use a bit of Microscale
Krystal Klear to make the window in the water sight glass on
the right side of the long hood.
Install the cab windows from the Cannon & Company cab kit.
Brush-paint the right side window frames silver and the left
side window frames blue before installing. Drill two #80 holes
ahead of the left side cab window, install a Details West 357
wind deflector and brush-paint it blue. Paint the Detail Associ-
