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