Weathering with PanPastels

[wazzou]

It's funny, I find the one you like the most the least pleasing.
The streaks aren't at all straight up and down.

[ednadolski]

While some folks like them, I've never found the pan pastels to be all that compelling.  They have that same sort of look as straight chalks, tho the colors are perhaps a bit more saturated/opaque. The pans seem to show the brush/applicator streaks a bit more readily.   I suppose tho that they serve well enough, as a quick way to take the OOTB-fresh look off cars.

The SAN 10075 is showing some fingerprints, are the pans hard to fix that sort of thing?

Ed

[Ed Kapuscinski]

While some folks like them, I've never found the pan pastels to be all that compelling.  They have that same sort of look as straight chalks, tho the colors are perhaps a bit more saturated/opaque. The pans seem to show the brush/applicator streaks a bit more readily.   I suppose tho that they serve well enough, as a quick way to take the OOTB-fresh look off cars.

The SAN 10075 is showing some fingerprints, are the pans hard to fix that sort of thing?

Ed

I have a couple reasons why I like them. The first is that they're easy to apply en-masse, and apparently that's how I buy freight cars... no car is REALLY a work of art, but add them all up and they look a lot better than one Mona Lisa and a bunch of bare canvasses.

The other thing I really like about them is that because they're dry they're easy to pickup and put down, which was really great when I was spending much of my day on phone calls that required a grand total of 2 minutes of my attention scattered throughout.

As for the finger prints. They're actually fine once you apply them. I haven't had any real issues with them coming off after application. However, if you don't wash the car beforehand, well, you ARE essentially dusting for prints. And guess what I JUST realized about that car... Oh well, it'll go 12 deep into the train and I hope nobody has a camera in hand if it trips a detector

[High Hood]

I have a couple reasons why I like them. The first is that they're easy to apply en-masse, and apparently that's how I buy freight cars... no car is REALLY a work of art, but add them all up and they look a lot better than one Mona Lisa and a bunch of bare canvasses.

The whole is worth more than the sum of its parts.

[ednadolski]

I have a couple reasons why I like them. The first is that they're easy to apply en-masse, and apparently that's how I buy freight cars... no car is REALLY a work of art, but add them all up and they look a lot better than one Mona Lisa and a bunch of bare canvasses.

Yep I hear you.  One thing tho that I notice in looking at the set of pics is that none of the cars show faded paint.  Can the PPs do a fade if say applied in layers;  alternately perhaps they could be applied on some of the pre-faded cars (e.g. Primed for Grime)?

Ed

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Yep I hear you.  One thing tho that I notice in looking at the set of pics is that none of the cars show faded paint.  Can the PPs do a fade if say applied in layers;  alternately perhaps they could be applied on some of the pre-faded cars (e.g. Primed for Grime)?

Ed

Absolutely. The trick is finding the right color to use. I actually HAVE done a couple of these with faded paint but it's subtle and I don't think these photos really do it justice (the lights were a bit "hot" on the subjects here).