Whatever you want to model – military planes and tanks, ships or trains – and in whatever scale, you bring into your workshop a scaled representation of the past and present and perhaps even the future. For me it is model trains and model railroading in HO (1/87) scale.

Some of us model railroaders, as we call ourselves, collect and run lots of model locomotives and rolling stocks with nice scenaries of hills and mountains, lakes and rivers, bridges and tunnels, stations and cities. But these model locomotives and rolling stocks look kinda shiny plastic-ky. There are of course reasons for not “dirtying” the models as these could be resold later. At times, good weathered models could fetch higher prices.

Less is More

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, an advocate of minimalism in architecture

Weathering is, to me, the ultimate step in achieving realism on model railroading. Good trackworks and electric connections on stable layout, multiple trains running at the same time all digitally controlled remotely with PC or handheld devices. Even turnouts could be digitally switched.

It is an unexplored opportunity to realism in weathering. Join me in my weathering journey as I explore new techniques and learn from experts in other fields such as scale models and wargames.