Weathering Micro Trains Auto Racks Pt. 2

Weathered Photoetch

The lower photoetch shows where the Tamiya masking tape was applied. Remove the masking tape and weather the remaining panels with streaks of rust from top to bottom. Streaking may continue to a lower panel.



Weathering the Roof

The above photo shows the weathering of the roof from left to right, with the initial streaks to the finished product.  Start with streaks of oils where rivets holding rooftop panels would be, and then dry brush across the rooftop.  The end result is on the right.   When that is done and fully dried, on to assembly.

Pieces for Final Assembly

Carefully position photoetch to side of model and put end caps in place.  Slowly add pillars to model one by one, working from ends to the middle, while making sure the end caps are in place.  The photoetch will try to slide out of position at first, and you must take care doing this.  After one side is in repeat on otherside, again, making sure the photoetch does not slip out of the end caps. 

Finally, pop the roof in place and attatch the weathered  (I am sure you have done this) trucks.  MT has a number of different wheelsets to chose from, including brown (rust) wheelsets. 

At this point it is time to spray Dull Cote over the entire model.

When finished, your model should look something like this.........

Assembled Weathered Chessie System MT Auto Rack

 Weathered Burlington Northern MT Auto Rack

 Weathered Santa Fe MT Auto Rack

 Weathered Rock Island MT Auto Rack

Thanks for looking up this blog.  I hope you found the last two blogs on weathering these models interesting.  Soon I will have a blog on weathering the Red Caboose Auto Racks, which require a different approach.  Next week, more N Scale action on the Needles Division!

 I have posted an N Scale video of a 1981 Auto Rack train on YouTube at:

http://youtu.be/XxzUouLStgo