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I'm not that much of a modeller, but on the rare occasions I do something, I tend to agonise over it for ages and then just go for it - these are shots of the body that I've played around with and, to be honest I'm amazed. Nothing special used, apart from spray photo-mount adhesive:
The body was painted in cheap grey primer and matt black. I prepared some rust powder by rusting some steel wool in a weak bleachy solution and rubbed that well into the paint to get the patina, I then used a bit of photomount adhesive and sprikeld some more dust on it, wiping off with an old brush until the streaks appeared uniform.
I'm dead chuffed with it.
The body was painted in cheap grey primer and matt black. I prepared some rust powder by rusting some steel wool in a weak bleachy solution and rubbed that well into the paint to get the patina, I then used a bit of photomount adhesive and sprikeld some more dust on it, wiping off with an old brush until the streaks appeared uniform.
I'm dead chuffed with it.
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You say you are not much of a modeller.
We all have our weaknesses and we can't be good at everything but you certainly seem to have mastered the processes required to turn resin rolling stock kits into convincing models abused by time, weather and lack of maintenance.
This is brilliant stuff.
We all have our weaknesses and we can't be good at everything but you certainly seem to have mastered the processes required to turn resin rolling stock kits into convincing models abused by time, weather and lack of maintenance.
This is brilliant stuff.
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Andy McMahon
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If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, paint it. (RN sailors basic skills course 1968)
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Having recently aquired a 1/4 scale dismantelled traction engine I started cleaning many parts by soaking them in malt vinegar. This worked well apart from the steel parts like nuts and bolts which very quickly went rusty. So I am going to try soaking steel wool in Malt Vinegar and see what happens....
Vinegar is basically acetic acid. It will help a little with degreasing painted surfaces and non-ferrous metals, it will, as you have found out, quickly rust steel, including steel wool.sstjc:99734 wrote:Having recently aquired a 1/4 scale dismantelled traction engine I started cleaning many parts by soaking them in malt vinegar. This worked well apart from the steel parts like nuts and bolts which very quickly went rusty. So I am going to try soaking steel wool in Malt Vinegar and see what happens....
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The moral of this story is to engage brain before throwing everything in a pot to degrease... Of course it also has the benfit that for very little money its nice to work with new nuts and bolts. We live and learn !philipy:99735 wrote:Vinegar is basically acetic acid. It will help a little with degreasing painted surfaces and non-ferrous metals, it will, as you have found out, quickly rust steel, including steel wool.sstjc:99734 wrote:Having recently aquired a 1/4 scale dismantelled traction engine I started cleaning many parts by soaking them in malt vinegar. This worked well apart from the steel parts like nuts and bolts which very quickly went rusty. So I am going to try soaking steel wool in Malt Vinegar and see what happens....
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