Spring 2021 – Weathering Room

Welcome to the Spring 2021 Virtual Weathering Room

Video Tutorials

• Weathering with Oil Paints – Andrew Thompson demonstrates weathering with oil paints.
• Weathering a mineral wagon – Mick Bonwick presents a short series on weathering a steel mineral wagon.
• Mick Bonwick’s Weathering session this weekend concentrated on wagon and coach weathering. The recording was split into two sections and is available below 
  • Part 1 – A Good wagon
  • Part 2 – An open wagon, coach roof, questions and answers.
• Mick Bonwick has also recorded some higher quality videos to accompany his live weathering session
  • Weathering a planked goods van
    • Part 1 Adding a ‘pinwash’
    • Part 2 Removing blobs of wash
    • Part 3 Adding pigment to the under frame
    • Part 4 Adding pigment to the roof 
  • 5 Plank Open Wagon – an alternative method of applying a wash
  • Weathering a panelled coach
    • Part 1 Panel wash
    • Part 2 Air brushing the under frame
    • Part 3 Air brushing the roof

Weathering Projects

• David Wager describes weathering Accurascale Cemflos:
  • • Part 1 – Prototype & method – An examination of the prototype and pictorial sources for weathering.
    • Part 2 – Process – David takes us through the process by which he weathered these wagons.
• A Irish Railways Class 121 – Mick Bonwick’s step by step guide to weathering a Murphy Models Class 121 Locomotive.
• A 7mm British Rail 14xx – Mick Bonwick shows all the stages involved in weathering this 7mm locomotive.
• Hopper Wagons – Mick Bonwick shows the use of a paint mask when air brushing and also the importance of variation when weathering a set of wagons.

You may also be interested in the Autumn Virtual Weathering Room – click here to view, this includes Mick Bonwick take on weathering Cemflo wagons.

We have the recording of the live weathering session from the Autumn 2020 weekend available here.