HO locomotive and car weathering

• I would like to see the old Coca Cola ads on boxcars, Roger Dean art, YES .. Pink Floyd album covers, I do not like fish either.

• I print pictures of animals, anime, cosplay, girls, etc... and glue them to the cars.

• Weathering: it helps to view images of real weathered locomotives and cars to get an idea of where the dirt goes and what rust looks like.
• Internet railroad image sites
• railpictures.net
• rrpicturearchives.net
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• Weathering Instructions
• Slop on some light color and wipe most off
• Slop on some wash and let it dry into the crevices
• blob some brown rust and let dry into contoured spots
• Slop on rust or grime and wipe most off
• repeat until happy
• just remember to clear coat with matte

• Loads for cars ... other than those already somewhere else
• Lumber loads
• Algoma Central in HO Scale blog has a Lumber Loads page that describes how to make the wood blocks and wrap them with the printed sheets you make from the pdf files he has. Lumber loads
• I did not have his tool set so bought 1/2" square dowels and used them at various lengths. All those days in the hospital making paper cranes laying next to those two kids helped a lot in making these loads.
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• Additional details
• Wheel Insection Dots. These marks began appearing in March 1978 when a type of wheel was found to be defective, and all cars were reqired to be inspected. Cars without the banned wheels received a black square with yellow dots; cars with the wheels received a white dot, and these wheels had to be replaced bu December 1978. Cars built or repained in 1979 and later won't have this mark.
• ACL labels : Color bar codes started and ended during the 1970's.
• Consolidated Stencils : different types of boxes. The 3 box type : 2 above and 1 full beneath is the modern standard one.
• Reflective tape started in 2K and was required by 2015 on all railroad items (cars and locomotives) except passenger cars.
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