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I've got a bit of a dilemma. I've been given free reign to build a layout in my garden shed (actually a cnverted single garage), but it needs some weather proofing, insulation and power laying on and frankly this isn't the weather for jobs like that.
In the mean time I've been working on my track plan, collecting buildings and aquiring rolling stock. Now I'm looking at my pristine BR MK1s and 16t mineral wagons and wondering whether to weather them.
In my time I've painted 90mm military miniatures, I've dabbled in AFV modelling and even done some war gaming, I'd never dream of superdetailing a Sherman Firefly without applying a a good layer of mud, dust and general grot to tone down the decals and give it a well used 'in the field' look. But for some reason I can't seem to bring myself to do it to my rolling stock. I've got a Dapol Siphon G which is screaming to have the detail brought out with some dry brushing, but I can't do it. It's not that I don't think I can do a good job, it just doesn't feel right somehow.
Am I alone in this, or do other people feel inhibited in this way?
In the mean time I've been working on my track plan, collecting buildings and aquiring rolling stock. Now I'm looking at my pristine BR MK1s and 16t mineral wagons and wondering whether to weather them.
In my time I've painted 90mm military miniatures, I've dabbled in AFV modelling and even done some war gaming, I'd never dream of superdetailing a Sherman Firefly without applying a a good layer of mud, dust and general grot to tone down the decals and give it a well used 'in the field' look. But for some reason I can't seem to bring myself to do it to my rolling stock. I've got a Dapol Siphon G which is screaming to have the detail brought out with some dry brushing, but I can't do it. It's not that I don't think I can do a good job, it just doesn't feel right somehow.
Am I alone in this, or do other people feel inhibited in this way?