Re: C&S Outside Metal Roofs -- Painting and Weathering Models

Posted by John Greenly on Jun 14, 2020; 4:24pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Outside-Metal-Roofs-Painting-and-Weathering-Models-tp15730p15735.html

This is a great thread, I'm a very primitive rolling stock painter and I'll learn a lot.  

About the RGS stock car roof, I agree with Pat.  I used to live next to an old barn that had a metal roof probably from the same era.  I don't know if it was originally galvanized  but by the late 1960's when I knew it, it was rusted and looked, as I remember, just like this.  I remember being impressed by how uniform the surface was, because it seemed surprising to me.   I got to know it well because I helped make some repairs to it.  

 I took the RGS photo and played with the color balance to see if I could make it look like paint.  Nothing I could do that kept the sky, trees and brush colors reasonable changed the roof color much, still looks exactly like that old rusted steel to me.  Here's a slightly tweaked version that I think comes closest to realistic colors overall:



Cheers,
John