Sunday, November 30, 2008

Lightly weathered Porter


Porter 1
Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker.
Black locos always look odd as I've said many times before. You really do have to get them a bit dirty so the details shows up.

This model is requested with a light weathering job. To this end I wafted some dark grey over everything. Then the lower half of the locomotive had some dark brown and earth mixes blown on. Across the top some weathered black simulated the smoke dirt.

This really looks nice. Subtle but effective.

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