It has been to cold to do much structure building and I haven't been in the mood for starting any new structures anyway. I would like to finish up a bunch of the little unfinished projects I have stashed away but most of them require using solvents I can't use in an non-ventilated room. In the mean time I keep myself busy weathering freight cars, so I'll post some images of those.
I had finished the weathering of this N&W covered hopper a while back but had not taken any images. I decided a couple of weeks ago to come back to this car and add some cargo spillage on the roof and the resulting dark grime down the sides of the car. I didn't want to over do the spillage on this car because I like what I have and I'm not trying to cover up any mistakes.
To represent the spilled cargo I brushed on some Matte Medium then sprinkled some very fine sand. After about 10 minutes I brushed more Matte Medium onto the sand to ensure adhesion to the car. Later I painted the sand with a dark gray and then a little green on top of the gray to give a "rotting grain" kind of look. Lastly I brushed on some thinned gray starting at the top where the grain piles are then down the sides.
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