The Weathering Depot

I’ll be at the upcoming Spring Creek Model Train show the July 8th and 9th at the Thayer County Event Center in Deshler, Nebraska. I won’t be there as a vendor, but will have one of my weathered cars there for the store to display permanently plus plenty of business…

Here’s my old layout photo for the week:

Several in the past have asked me especially on my Ebay store about cost, and what is reasonable. As a hobby business I, like any other online store are here to make a profit, not lose money, nor give product away. With that said, I’ve seen models listed for purchase…

I think I may have mentioned my other rail related hobby is rail photography, where i derive my prototype photos from for weathering. I’ve been taking photos for decades, and still do today when I have the chance. I miss the old days however of varied types of locomotives, various…

I’ve decided once a week I plan to post a different view of my old layout, now disassembled in pieces in our storage unit. I do plan to hopefully use one of my modules shown below to set up in my den/office to have a small switching layout and a…

When working on a model for a friend or client, I always look for a prototype photo of the same number car, or a car of the same builder class. I then copy the weathering on that car, the exceptions being when a modeler wants me to freelance the weathering,…

Here I’ll post some detailed photos of past work for clients, showing the process it takes to thoroughly weather a model. Any comments or questions please ask. Enjoy….!

So here I’ll explain what I do with weathering. For those followers of my previous WordPress website on my Penn Central Hitop model railroad, you already have seen my layout and weathered equipment. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to see my previous website, I invite you…