CF7 Roof Weathering

[sailormatlac]

I find it more difficult to weather a dark/black engine. Your "trick" worked very well to first light it up to simulate bleached out paint and dust and than apply black from the stacks. The engine looks very good!

Reinhard, that remembers me an old folk who always told me to NEVER use real black. Almost impossible to weather. What applies for steamers applies for any other balck carbody. Steve's technic works nice because you get at least 3 color hues: the original paint, the faded paint and the darkened paint. Add rust and dust and you've got a 5 tones color variation bringing life to the model. When I was doing model figure, it was habitually recommended to use 5 different tone to make a realistic flesh color.

Matt