TMC weathered steam locomotive

[ohlavache]

Hello.
I'm thinking of ordering a weathered steam locomotive from TMC, but I can't determine whether I should opt for light or medium weathering.
Could some of you post some pictures of steam locomotives after light and medium weathering by TMC? This would help me a lot.

For information, I expect some livery fading without insisting too much on the water flows around the chimneys.

Thanks by advance for your help.

[Topcat]

Ring em and tell em want you want. Their weathering is good.

[Newportnobby]

Sadly this guy doesn't offer weathering any more but check out the galleries on his site and you may find something that appeals to you which you could point TMC to.............

http://www.the-art-of-making-dirty.co.uk

[portland-docks]

look on their website, they have examples of all different scales of weathering, if theres a loco you want to recreate for weathering send them the picture and they will match it.

i know the guys there VERY well and they are excellent! some people say they are expensive, but you get what you pay for! iv had numerous things renamed/ renumbered/ weathered and serviced etc!

worth every penny!

[d-a-n]

I'm planning to buy a TMC weathered Jinty when the next run comes out as I saw their work first hand and was blown away by how good it looks - even better than the photos. Nothing but admiration for their skill.

[NeMo]

I will throw something out here: you mention fading paintwork, but TMC, like most of the other bespoke weathering services, seems to be adding grime, dust and oil. If I'm wrong, someone will surely correct me! 

While that's fine, and looks really good, faded paintwork is something else. So far as I can tell, it's done by adding faded versions of the body colour onto the model to replicate bleaching. I've done this to some of my own locos, and it's very fiddly but does result in a completely different thing to what you get from locos that have darker or dustier paints sprayed on top of their standard paint finish.

Mercig Studios is probably the one weathering service that does do proper paint fading, but at a price! So if you really want a faded paint finish, you might want to pick up one of the several books on weathering and have a go yourself, presumably on an unwanted loco body or wagon before doing anything irreplaceable.

Cheers, NeMo

One of my 'Westerns' with faded paintwork; this one used Phoenix Precision Paints faded BR blue.

[ohlavache]

Thank you all for your answers.
The key issue is more how to describe what I want. TMC really seems to do a great job, I have no doubt.
By the way, Christmas shopping is starting, which means I will delay this purchase to 2017. It gives me more time to think about it.

[trkilliman]

I looked at newportbobby's link to the art of making dirty. This is how I remember many of the Westerns in blue when spotting from Bristol T.M, quite shabby. The steam locos have some cracking weathering too!