While Railfanning the Bucket

... I came across with these cars at Olympia. The train halted in front of the depot long enough for me to get these shots...
Later on I caught this one going through Skerritt IA on eastbound BNSF detour.So as you can see, the First of May Holiday was spent working on/for the FBL. Upload on it's way...

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Nice! excellent weathering technique, Please tell me how you did it, so i can apply it to my SD40's

Shawn shawnssk@yahoo.com
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That was actually very easy with Paint Shop Pro 7. I'm not an expert with MSTS weathering, but I like to try out different techniques.First I created a new raster layer, and then outlined the hopper sides with the selection tool. Then I just airbrushed a mixture of light-grey and some blue (to represent clay).Remember this airbrushing goes on to the "layer" that is on top of the actual painting. The texture itself is not harmed. Next thing I did was to add Gaussian Blur at a factor of about three, until it looked nice. When I was all done, I merged the weathering layer to the background image and exported it with TgaTool2.The letters were made by first typing in the text, and then, using selection tool I outlined the text and applied Smooth. Immediately after that I applied Sharpen (twice) tool to the same area, so the text became rough and had a worn look.

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Thanks for the info! I'll practice this soon

Shawn shawnssk@yahoo.com
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Well I hope it made some sense, English is not my native languange. You should also try the Splitter Engineering website, they have some nice info, too. Can remember the addy right now, sorry...

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LAST EDITED ON May-03-03 AT 10:04 PM (EDT)

you did a really good job. The first shot had me thinking it was real as it loaded.I love the randomness of the painting, and had I PSP 7, I might use your techniques to redo my CNW SW 1500 that's currently in the library.Edit to add following:Oh, one thing you might consider doing. Several times, I've seen cars that were weathered and rusted as those in your pictures, but had a few small bright spots on their bodies. Normally, these spots were small squares, and matched the original colour pretty well. These come from patches of holes, or renumbering. I adds some character to put these on the older cars (let's say take a 40ft box, weather it heavilly, and then put a shiny patch over where it was renumbered) but they shouldn't be used in a high ammount. One or two per car MAX. Try that out some time, you'll find it looks really nice

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Yes, I know what are you talking about. I usually have added such a bright spot around the reporting marks (RR initials & number) when I designate the car as a one that has been sold and renumbered. No I decided to leave these out, as these cars have supposedly fairly new paintjob done, but have seen a lot of dirty service I made one with a different color bright spot on one of the FBL boxcars.

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Great images. You stated these were taken near
olympia....Is there a "Olympia route"?
What is it called?
Don

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Those shots were taken on the fictional Full Bucket line, near the town of Olympia.Jonathan Nikiforovs.
Milepost 180, CP Belleville Sub.

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