How do you make the most of today’s stunning ready-to-run models? MIKE WILD offers 20 ways to enhance your models with readily available products and simple steps.
Weathering models is very much a case of each to their own. However, for us a suitably weathered model finished with care and attention to detail can really enhance the appearance of a ready-to-run product by bringing out its detail and making it unique. To achieve the effects shown here requires an airbrush as well as hand finishing techniques, all of which have been covered in past issues of Hornby Magazine. Favourite colours include Burned Black (UA736), Frame Dirt (UA719), Dirty Grease Effect (UA262) from Lifecolor together with Wilder’s Grease Effect (GP11) powder.
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The footplate of a moving train would never be empty when in motion and nor should our models be either – although we readily admit that this is always an ongoing process for Hornby Magazine’s exhibition layout fleets. There are many choices, but our first port of call is usually the Master Piece range of ready painted cast metal figures which are designed to suit specific locomotives. They are a very qui…
