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Contributing editor Pelle Søeborg shows off the weathered rooftops on his HO scale locomotives and rolling stock in this video taken on his HO scale Union Pacific Daneville Sub model railroad. Be sure to check out his article outlining techniques for realistically weathering roofs in the November 2014 Model Railroader.
This and the other film clips on MRVP are from the DVD that was made on this layout. I often watch it for modelling inspiration, although it is HO scale I can still apply the methods from this and his books to my N scale Southern California layout. I used to model HO but you can get a great deal more N scale in a 30 feet by 10 feet layout room, hence the switch. The thing is, American trains are long, very long, so, you need a lot of space to model these realistically, even in this film clip we see the train at full length in the same scene, but in N scale, this is not the case! Now my 10 HO loco's weathered by Pelle sit in a display cabinet but thanks to his weathering books by Kalmbach, I am getting the same weathering effects on my N loco's and freight stock, just stick to his techniques strictly and you can too. Looking forward to his next Midwest layout project and books. Thanks for all the inspiration Pelle ! 🙂
Given the clip's title, I also thought this video was going to showcase structure rooftops. Nonetheless Pelle has done a super job, as always.
Master modeller at work. There is only one thing better than a Pelle Søeborg video, and that's a Pelle Søeborg video in HD!
Very nice.
For older cars (30s, 40s, 50s) that had painted galvanized roofs, try a silver Sharpie to simulate paint that has peeled and exposed the galvanized steel.
And I thought we were going to get a demo of how the roofs of his structures were done, not what he did to car tops (roofs). All in all, a very well done job, and enough power on the train to get it past the camera.
Pelle is tops! I always enjoy seeing his latest work.