Kalmbach 12458 Done in a Day Easy Detailing and Weathering Projects

More than a dozen easy weathering and detailing projects will show you how to add realism to rolling stock and locomotives. Well-illustrated. easy-to-follow instructions make this book suitable for beginning model railroaders.

• Author: Pelle K. Seborg
• Size: 8 1/4 x 10 3/4
• Pages: 88

Pelle K. Seborg is a graphic designer in Farum. Denmark. In the early 1990s. several Model Railroader magazines caught his attention. and he has been a model railroader ever since. A trip to the United States in 1992 added to his interest in modeling United States prototypes. Pelle has written a number of articles for Model Railroader. His images have been featured in MR calendars in addition to Woodland Scenics and Walthers catalogs. He is the author and photographer of the book. Mountain to Desert: Building the HO Scale Daneville Donner River. by Kalmbach Books. which demonstrates modeling techniques through the construction of his home layout.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Turn a shiny new boxcar into rolling stock long past its prime
2. Add graffiti and tags: A completely legal way to vandalize a covered hopper
3. Weather a tank car to leave no doubt about what it’s carrying
4. Weather a tank car to look as though it hasn’t been weathered at all
5. A rusted roof is the key to a realistically weathered old auto carrier
6. Give your first-generation double-stack cars a contemporary look
7. An easy flatcar pipe load made from Evergreen styrene tubing
8. Loading a gondola with stainless steel pipes made from aluminum tubes
9. Make a heavy steel-coil load for your gondolas from styrene strips
10. Easy-to-make removable loads for your open hoppers
11. How to give your once-beautifulWarbonnets a hard-at-work weathered look
12. A few improvements and a light weathering bring an Atlas Dash 8-40CW up to date
13. Apply DCC and sound to an older Kato SD70MAC
14. Apply a multi-color paint scheme to a bare Kato GP35
15. Index