Weathering
Ready-to-Run (RTR) locomotives, wagons and coaches look great when new, but real locomotives and trains are never so clean. This is where weathering comes in, the term for giving your locomotives and rolling stock a more realistic appearance. This section applies to all of your model railway: track, buildings, vehicles…literally everything can be weathered!
Weathering the new Heljan 02/2
Prolific modeller, Tony Wright, talks us through the modifications he has made…
06 March 2025
VIDEO: Simple wagon weathering with Phil Parker
It's not hard to give your wagons the appearance of a hard life on the tracks.…
03 October 2024
Dry-brush painting brickwork with Phil Parker
Phil Parker shows us a simple and very useful technique for painting bricks on…
06 September 2024
2024 VIDEO: Weathering an N gauge wagon
Working in smaller scale requires some changes in weathering techniques - Phil…
11 April 2024
How to weather your first model
Looking to create a subtle weathered effect on your latest locomotive purchase…
06 July 2022
How to renumber and weather a locomotive
For the BRM project layout, 'DHAPR wagon works', we needed a suitably scruffy…
By Phil Parker | 10 March 2022
Ask Phil: Dirty Dublo
In the January BRM, you showed a weathered Hornby Dublo Volkswagen van. How did…
By Phil Parker | 22 December 2021
Enhance your layout with a narrow gauge feeder line
Inspired by a recent trip to a preserved railway, Phil Parker builds a narrow…
13 December 2021
Model Railways: How to make a pre-grouping coach
These four-wheel coaches are in plentiful supply, though can be upgraded with…
13 September 2021
Weathering 009 skip wagons
Working wagons should show their battle scars, especially narrow gauge skip…
By Phil Parker | 07 September 2021
Phil's Practical - Personalise a J94
With the reappearance of the ex-DJM models J94 as part of the EFE Rail range, we…
07 September 2021
Phil's Practical - Weather a steam locomotive
Real trains get dirty – Phil Parker shares how to replicate this on models to…
06 September 2021
Detail a Bachmann Wickham Trolley
A OO gauge Wickham is a terrific little model - we look at how it can be…
By Phil Parker | 01 September 2021
How to restore an airbrush
Damaging a top-of-the-line airbrush can prove a costly mistake, as Howard Smith…
By Howard Smith | 18 August 2021
Rust effects created using hair spray
Watch BRM's (British Railway Modelling) Phil Parker demonstrate how to weather…
By Phil Parker | 01 February 2021