Detailing Freight Cars & Locomotives
88 page book.
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Enthusiastic modelers know they can rely on Pelle Soeborg's dependable, step-by-step instructions to help them improve their layouts. His new book offers simple weathering and finishing techniques that are easy to complete yet deliver a greater degree of realism to locomotives and rolling stock. Hobbyists will appreciate more than 300 how-to and prototypical photos that guide them from project to project.
Author: Pelle K. Soeborg
Softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 88 pages; 300 color photos; ISBN: 9780890249437
- Introduction
- Weathering tools and materials
- Get inspired by prototypes
- Give an old boxcar a contemporary look
- Weather a white reefer
- Add soil and stripes to stack cars
- Make new gondolas look used
- Let rust rule on steel coil cars
- Weather batches of boxcars
- Turn a ready-to-run hopper into a showpiece
- Add mysterious spills to a tank car
- Improve the look of a good-looking coal hopper
- Weather a black locomotive
- Apply standard weathering to your fleet
- Transform a brass model into a working engine
- Make a scrap metal load from pot scrubbers
- Turn straws into a pipe load
- Make a heavy steel load for flatcars