Weathering buildings and accompanying details, a continuous thread

[Jaz avalley]

Hut

reference photo on pc and added some shading

once dry

added a white label (paper) for the door
2nd layer of shade
some yellow for lichen and some modelling grass/leaves then painted yellow then shaded

after shading

Just the one colour on the sides

grounded with extra ballast and a bush or two

 

[Jaz avalley]

When trying to get the best out of a weathering piece, I like to set it on the layout, in a placement that also has been upgraded with dirt and weathered items, I often move kit that I know look good to enhance a piece as they compliment it, anything nearby that screams toy inevitably brings down any good pieces near it.
I hide anything I can that I know is a low grade issue, particularly any supports for figures, or goofy looking trees

 

[Jaz avalley]

Nissan hut
this baby got the works
dirt fading grunge at bottom of glazing

the shape made it easy to dribble as would have occurred in real life

with a little glue I even managed sone flaked paint

the cars ok but not the best and the figure suitably de focused

the junk pile needs some work as a foreground item

and pilot although upgraded is still obviously a figurine this close up

but you can see various steps

 

[Jaz avalley]

hornby nissan hut at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

prior to repaint

 

[Jaz avalley]

As I like to weather old rolling stock, it is suitable to weather the buildings in a similar manner and to that mind any detail that was of the day is a nice add and then they too need to be weathered,as though the whole aged together as time slipped by
these brass shed baskets have nice detailing

BRUTES

platform bins

shed baskets

putty or plastercine to hold in place

feet

rusted

 

[Jaz avalley]

Then I just shove them around when the work with other items,

i did not even do a good job, yet they work

 

[Lynnb]

Lots of great scenes and helpful information.

 

[migalyto]

Thanks for sharing your work Jas. Looks like it's a labor of love for you!

 

[Jaz avalley]

Another brass etching
BRUTE
British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment

etching

glue you can soldering but you risk melting the etching (i did that with a coach )

painted blue, plus I laid some tissue over one corner for the BRUTE curtain, it is not really weathered but as the above was etching I added it in

photographed through

and with an appropriate trolley I bought, this one has no curtain

photographed with an appropriate focus they look really nice

 

[Jaz avalley]

I picked up this plastic buildings they are meant t be control rooms but make nice sheds
there s no reference so I could just g as I pleased and I had two choices

I we teracotta, dirt white window, greenery rising onre base a white light and an off back roof, just cause

I did add a little wet / damp look

no glazing

 

[Jaz avalley]

for the second one
I decided I wanted a rusty tin roof
and a dilapidated painted door

I added texture to the window sills for dirt build up

and again a little wet look added

 

[Jaz avalley]

Compare the two I decided to trial more dirt less shine

then I decided to glaze it, but decided that messy the glass would be broken I took some plastic from a bacon packet and cut to size then cut holes in it, and added some dirt so not too shiny

 

[Jaz avalley]

It got so grotty I thought it needed an abandoned placement

sone natural sunlight on the glass, i had added in sone texture to help with the aging look, and some greenand the grasses nearby all overgrown

I have considered filing th door for a bettter plank look just not got around to it

and some rusty vehicles for a vw graveyard

 

[Jaz avalley]

Thanks for sharing your work Jas. Looks like it's a labor of love for you!

Ever since I took part in an online weathering competition,at which I did appallingly but there was so few entrants I still won a prize I have been fascinated by the subject.
Getting the look for the least effort Is my goal,as I have so much that needs doing.
I do get satisfaction from getting the look.
Although I am the first to admit my work rarely benefits from close up inspection lol.

 

[Jaz avalley]

Lots of great scenes and helpful information.

Thank you
Over the years I have either fallen over ideas,tried stuff to hand,or swopped ideas with other modellers. I am willing to try with anything to hand in order to get the look,and have used any number of unusual items along the way, especially from the kitchen bin lol.

One example is tea leaves,how many of us drink tea and just bin the leaves I tear open the bags and dry them in the window sill flat, and crush them between my fingers, they add debris and texture to a weathering job and to the grounding of building and make a good soil substitute

in a lorry load and on the floor

for the garden

empty

and full, ooh looking at these I need some plastic squares off of food plastic to make glazed lids for those beds….
there you have given me a good idea, so thank you. ;D

 

[Jaz avalley]

Weathering
anyone reading the thread will see a common theme

i usually run water first,as it easily shows how rain falls,
the single best cause of rust
wch then makes it easy o lay down the colour
simple observation shows where water pools, and pooling against is a high reason for rusting

I regularly use dark brown,orange brown, thinned black.
The reason for this is they work, simples. (meerkat it lol)

 

[Jaz avalley]

pill box, used by the British as defence 2WW, they are dotted around often surviving in agricultural fields where a farmer may have used them.

as bought already has a light weathering, which works for 1940s to modern day,
but often they are over grown, overtaken by brambles and grass

I just dabbed my blacks and greens as there is no metal as such no rusty browns, but as many are near the coast and get see wash seaweed is often seen on them, so yellow greens are often in evidence

grasses wood based and static grass types, tea leaves for soil and mixed ballast avoiding black

lol found one worse than mine

WW2 Pillbox hidden in the undergrowth © John Beniston

Pillbox at Kelling on the coast road. This Pillbox was not recorded by the Defence of Britain Project April 1995 to March 2002, I wonder why? http://www.britarch.ac.uk/projects/

www.geograph.org.uk

 

[Jaz avalley]

Was a coach loses its bogie now long since a building

colours used are in the photos

 

[Jaz avalley]

 

[Jaz avalley]

Statue
as bought

it’s fine does the job, but I wanted more weathering

sone brown but basically thinned black