Painting and weathering the bridges for the Keewenaw & Scenic Valley Railroad
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2022
- At last, the episode that many of my viewers have been asking about. In this installment, I finally get the various K&SVRR bridges painted and weathered.
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Super details, Peter! Weathering is something I am not that much into, but I certainly appreciate the artistry you wield as you go about the task. Very impressive work, especially the high deck bridge! T4
Looking great Peter, like how they look with just a little extra attention to them. As always, I learn a lot by watching how you do thing, thanks 😀😃🙂
Your train set looks so real you done a wonderful job keep up the good work.
Looking nice and a nice video again
great work
thank you for your detail video
from Australia
Third!!!!! Looks great!!
Nice vid. Informative, as usual.
I can see just mixing paints until I get a color I like, but when you say "make a wash" I'd really appreciate if you could indicate what you use and the proportions.
I just make it up as I go along.
Splendid. What are 'bridge shoes'?
Bridge shoes are metal castings that the corners of the bridge sit on rather than being directly on top of the masonry piers.
Hello Peter. All the bridges and unassembled parts are looking good. A question…..after applying the weathering powders and before their eventual installation, do use seal them with a dull coat of some sort? To prevent them being rubbed off or smudged. Just curious. Thanks. I look forward to your next update. Bye. Take care.
I don't cover it with anything. It stills well enough by itself and they're not going to get lot of handling.
Hello Peter. Thanks for sharing. When you are finished with the powder? Do you clear coat the bridges? Or just leave it at that?
I don't cover it with anything. It stills well enough by itself and they're not going to get lot of handling.
How do you install that big bridge? Do you cut out some of the layout? And make that part lower? Or is it a huge grade that goes up to it? I’m thinking of installing one but can figure out how to put it on my layout.
Just think of the whole reason why a bridge like that might exit on a real railroad, The only reason for it is a deep valley, far below the level of the railroad. For the model in question, the scenery will drop almost to floor level below this bridge.
Awesome, thank you!
how did you seal the powders in?dullcoat?
I didn't use any dullcoat since they will not be handled much.
Second!😁
First!
Your bridges look fantastic. Great job on weathering them. About 28 years ago I built one of the Micro Engineering 150” tall steel viaduct bridges and I didn’t have any issues on it as I recall. Sadly, I no longer have it. I just recently finished a second one and while it looks “OK”, the instructions were at times a bit confusing. Now that I have it together, I’ll know what to do on a second one, should I build another one.
It takes forever to cut everything from the sprues and to sand them all during construction. Not to mention how delicate some parts are. It is not a quick build model by any stretch.
I’m currently weathering it after a very heavily weathered prototype. Here is a link of my current progress if you are interested. ruclips.net/video/uFnsPtGL36Q/видео.html
I see that you have the Micro Engineering bridges as well. Would you say they are any more difficult than the Walther’s, or about the same? I’m currently interested in building a Central Valley Pratt Truss bridge, but they appear to be on another level of difficulty. I don’t know how they compare to the Micro Engineering models though.
Again, it all looks really good. You are very good at this.
Thank you