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!

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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

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Dry-brush painting brickwork with Phil Parker

Phil Parker shows us a simple and very useful technique for painting bricks on…

06 September 2024

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2024 VIDEO: Weathering an N gauge wagon

Working in smaller scale requires some changes in weathering techniques - Phil…

11 April 2024

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How to weather your first model

Looking to create a subtle weathered effect on your latest locomotive purchase…

06 July 2022

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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

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Ask Phil: Dirty Dublo

In the January BRM, you showed a weathered Hornby Dublo Volkswagen van. How did…

By Phil Parker | 22 December 2021

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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

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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

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Weathering 009 skip wagons

Working wagons should show their battle scars, especially narrow gauge skip…

By Phil Parker | 07 September 2021

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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

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Phil's Practical - Weather a steam locomotive

Real trains get dirty – Phil Parker shares how to replicate this on models to…

06 September 2021

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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

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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

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Rust effects created using hair spray

Watch BRM's (British Railway Modelling) Phil Parker demonstrate how to weather…

By Phil Parker | 01 February 2021

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Ask Phil: What use is a cheap airbrush?

I've been given one of those really cheap airbrush sets as a present. Should I…

02 December 2020

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