61. Weathering Green Diesel Locomotives at McKinley Railway

There are many different methods of enhancing the look of our locos.
Here is how Ivana weathers our Green Diesel Locomotives at Mckinley Railway. 61.
Paints used by Ivana.
Mig Oilbrusher Paints.
Medium Grey
Black
Dark Brown
Dark Mud
Earth Clay
Gun Metal
Silver
Mig Pigments.
Faded Green P048.

[@greenelmstation7930]

Thank you for not spoiling the video with background music.

[@nmarks]

This is ASMR for model railway enthusiasts. Very pleasant.

[@nathwhhite73]

When a lady says just how beautiful a locomotive is as she’s weathering it….put a ring on it, she’s a keeper 😊🥰

[@railway31]

Thank you for another great video, I must admit the thought of taking a paint brush to a locomotive you've just spent £££ on brings on a sweat😰 But Ivana does a fantastic job and I appreciate what a transformation it makes. May I also echo what others have said and say how lovely it is to see a lady on camera, there are not enough females in the hobby and it's a shame as they bring another dimension to the scenic work. Our hobby is for everyone😊

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

I also knew Ivana's earlier work here. She is a delight ad a natural presenter. Very skilful and practical. Thanks. :-)

[@vxrdrummer]

Ivana is a very good presenter and very good artist. She also has the most beautiful hands!

[@clivestevenson8589]

An absolute masterclass - thank you Ivana

[@pipafumador]

Muchas gracias Ivana por tu video con la técnica de envejecimiento. Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱, Sudamérica.

[@MalcolmCrabbe]

Another ASMR video from McKinley --- Lovely. Excellent video, and what a transformation

[@Zebrails]

The model railway world needs more "Ivana's" to weather rollingstock... I have the greatest respect for such quality and straight-forwardness to "real-ize" brand-new locomotives... clean and spiffy for the first few days... but, "weather and dirt happens" every day. Awesome video of "new to powered strength use" change. Thank you! John British Columbia, Canada

[@tmcg972]

Wow, this treatment turned a beautiful loco into a piece of art! Very effective and detailed, and all without airbrush... Was slightly worried first, when paint was applied generously, but it worked out perfectly. This gave me enough confidence to try and practice on an old coach or wagon, thank you very much for sharing!

[@musoseven8218]

I've seen this lady's work before and I often end up weathering models etc without an airbrush, but I use the latter for base coats, top coats and specific weathering effects. But for detail weathering, almost always, I do so by brush and/or powders etc. I've been weathering models since 1975 - eeekk! - this lady is very skilled and Ive learned about modern acrylic - and modern oil based - products from her videos (I've had to switch to acrylics due to health issues etc over the past few years). It's a shame we don't see more ladies involved with our 3D art form (railway modelling), ladies often have better dexterity too, and, a pretty face always warms the soul too (am I allowed to say that these days? Of course I am, a clever, skilled, pretty lady who's taken time to show us how to model make better, it's a compliment on my part and I'm grateful for all the help that I can get!)😊😊👍👍

[@dattouk]

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[@musoseven8218]

@@dattouk That's good to know. They weren't very kind and reflected badly upon the hobby and a good video✌️😊

[@Trainskitsetc]

@@dattouk good on ya 😊 Hopefully we'll see a few more rolling stock related videos down the line, plenty of stock to show off!

[@philbartlett7898]

@@dattouk glad to hear, although i never saw them. Males simply cannot treat females the way they did 20 30 40+ years ago. Hope Ivana wasnt too offended

[@ianjames1352]

Looks great nice job. Welcome back. Thanks for sharing 👍😀

[@trainmanbob]

Sometimes it takes the gentle touch of one of our lady modellers to do this really well. I have tried but I simply do not have the gentle touch required..age, shakes and arthritis are not the best of conditions to have either. May I congratulate you Ivana on your superb work. I would imagine looking at McKinley so far there will be no shortage of work for you. May I add in a totally non sexist way, how pleasant it is to see young ladies in the hobby. Both my daughters have had an interest since an early age and still do in their thirties.

[@jonathanlawton710]

wonderful work. thanks to Ivana I weathered my locos from her previous upload (blue 25) very talented and perfect for me as I don't have an airbrush. changed my whole outlook on weathering. thank you.

[@ivanafricova7507]

You are more than welcome! Thank you for watching Ivana

[@ZalMoxis]

Awesome work Ivana.... looks like it's now been out in the garage stuffed in a box for years...

[@michelegianni389]

Awesome work and suggestions! Thanks

[@Pastalive2025]

David Wife is amazing at all this painting trains. Great stuff

[@TATICMOOR]

A wonderful, presented video on weathering by the talented Ivana which was a delight to watch. Beautifully showing how subtle or heavy one can work with these colours and the blending the paint and powders together. Always a pleasure to see and hear Ivana in action and seeing the end results of her work, as on this Class 31. Please Mr McKinley, can we have some more... LOL.

[@krumkake56]

Excellent, Ivana. Thanks for sharing.

[@happyknightinternationalma116]

Superb presentation, and workwomanship!. This is the first time I’ve seen oilbrusher paint, I’ll buy some and try it on my models. I usually airbrush, but seeing your technique is inspiring 🙂.

[@1701_FyldeFlyer]

Ivana makes it look so easy I might be tempted to have a go myself.

[@platformten5958]

Hi Ivana. I watched your previous weathering video some 10 months ago, so I'm familiar with your work, and you definitely still get 10 out of 10 for your excellent weathering skills. Unlike most model weatherers, you have a very subtle approach, so let's put it down to a woman's touch. As I'm a steamer person, I would love to see you weather a steam loco as, watching you at work on one, would give me a useful guide to the do's and don'ts when it comes to weathering my steam locos. Keep up the good work Ivana! Paul. 👍

[@ivanafricova7507]

Thank you, Paul, our next plan is weathering steam locomotive. I will be more than happy to show all details. Thank you for watching and your kind words. Ivana

[@platformten5958]

Hi Ivana. No problem as you've earnt any praise coming your way. As for your plans to weather steam locos, that's excellent news. Looking forward to seeing the video. Can't wait Ivana. Paul. 👍👍👍

[@johnbeck7019]

Very helpful video many thanks

[@lawrencebryant7319]

Excellent. You make it look easy. I'll have a go!

[@ivanafricova7507]

I hope you will find this techniques easy. Good luck with your weathering and thank you for watching. Ivana

[@philbartlett7898]

Thanks for this really useful tutorial Ivana. I saw your blue diesel tutorial a few months ago and this one lifts it to another level. Please show us more.

[@ivanafricova7507]

Many thanks

[@mysticrailroad]

Amazing video.

[@fernandoalbertobitarslim281]

She should be a psychologist, her voice is so relaxing... And great model, excellent improvment, thanks for sharing... 🙂🙂

[@tonyrobinson362]

Welldone Ivana very nice❤

[@kellypaws]

Amazingly talented. It puzzles me that we don't get more Ivana videos. Who in the modelling fraternity is likely to spend tens of thousands on block detection? I thought not. Who in the modelling fraternity would lend their hand to weathering stock or a loco? Ah, yes. More.

[@pacset2]

nice work

[@swagmanexplores7472]

Stunning ! - and the locomotive looks nice too 😁

[@kevinenticott2206]

An excellent video and some great techniques Ivana, a great looking locomotive at the end😊

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

fantastic work - thanks!

[@CMDModels1]

The bogies and roof really come to life with your skills. Awesome work and interesting channel.

[@ivanafricova7507]

Thank you!

[@donsharpe5786]

Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed it and like the way it has not been over weathered and the use of blending . I will have to watch it again to look at the roof weathering.

[@johndenbury4697]

Looking good, TT is a nice size to run .

[@stewartsamson835]

What a superb tutorial, thank you 🙏

[@davidberlanny3308]

Great attention to detail. I've been dreading trying to clean my Dublo stock, but maybe all I need to say is that it has been naturally weathered!! Good luck from Spain!!

[@Arnage1969]

Respect ! Very good job ! Congratulations !

[@bigturboxr3i]

Excellent.

[@Viking88Power]

Brilliant work.

[@ModelRailwaysUnlimited]

That was incredible! Of course you do have very skilled and accurate hands :) The effect was brilliant. Have subscribed cheers MIke

[@gerlandkent6377]

[thank, you for youre great helpful video]👍

[@justtim9767]

Excellent work.

[@JohnSmith-bz7yd]

really awesome job thanks for the tips

[@4everdc302]

Well done 👏 🎨🚂🇨🇦🇬🇧

[@joannewhilde7359]

Wow You're good.

[@edwardwaltonbespoke5817]

Wonderful work 👍 Thank you! A great inspiration

[@Batesandrw]

Nice talent, I’m still working on my weathering. I’ve got an O gauge loco you could weather. 😊

[@brianpatterson3233]

Another excellent video - can we please have a video on weathering steam locomotives and carriage and freight stock of the 50’s leeiod

[@ivanafricova7507]

Hi Brian, our next planned video is weathering steam locomotives, thank you for your suggestions!

[@DevilsEyeCT]

Another great video 👍🏻could you possibly do a weathering video on steam locos as-well as I’d really like to see this method done on them too?

[@ivanafricova7507]

Thank you for your comment. Yes, we already have selected steam locomotives for the next video. Hope you will find it useful. Ivana

[@christinerobottom9444]

Thats wonderful thankyou❤

[@mikloschriste9719]

Awsome job!

[@mikefromflorida8357]

A great video with no music.

[@dakdak7609]

I really like how that looks at the end, superb. I can’t help wondering if the Wagons and the rest of the rolling stock will be weathered too. Sounds like a lifetimes work looking at the previous videos taking trips around the storage yards!

[@ivanafricova7507]

Weathering wagons is a very good suggestion for next videos, thank you. We are publishing soon weathering tankers, I hope this can be helpful, also I agree that we can do more wagons in the near future. Thank you for you suggestion!

[@TB-ModelRR]

1000th like! Wheres my trophy?!?! Thank you for the video!

[@gregoirewolff]

Amazing! Will we see Ivana’s skill with steam locomotives? I certainly do hope so!

[@ivanafricova7507]

Yes, we are going to do weathering of the steam locomotives soon. Thank you for watching.

[@philbartlett7898]

@@ivanafricova7507 that will be worth waiting for. Thanks

[@Marienthal1956]

Thank's for this tutorial. 🙂

[@AllensTrains]

A very well presented video that illustrates your technique to good effect. The only thing I would suggest is that you obtain second hand Lima models from eBay for demonstration purposes. Thanks for uploading.

[@ianharper6015]

Thanks again for another great video. It would be useful to know how you clean and restore your brushes.

[@patrickhunt8644]

Another excellent video on weathering, so informative and very well presented. What a transformation. But do you finish with a (airbrush) coat of matt varnish? Echo the requests for a similar video for steam; express locos and workhorses.

[@medwaypeninsulaMR]

I watched your previous video on BR Blue fading an d this one is a s good too. I have used the Oil brushes and will take note of this video and save it for future reference. Thanks for making the clear demonstration will you be doing a video for steam locos ? Cheers Kev

[@francismewton3276]

Ooooo I'm in love

[@francismewton3276]

I remember a few months a young lady had an article put in the model rail mag ,she's got a railway layout in her front room ,she even had a play on it just before she went off to get married to her bloke ,I must admit I never had thought girls where into model trains and here you are weathering the locomotives up ,I fell in love with you straight away (not in the literal way)you know what I mean ,don't get me wrong but your gorgeous and playing with trains xxxx

[@Jimyjames73]

Very good 🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@oceanfroggie]

Great video, very informative. How do you seal the weathering? Do you spray varnish? How to you protect the wheels and windows from varnish?

[@davidstill1256]

Great job but how do you seal it surely handling the model will destroy all the good work?.

[@Derbys65]

I’m in love 😍

[@marka87]

Do you coat the model with varnish before using the oil brushers?

[@thomasldeanjr3337]

I'm in love ........................

[@stevesmith4665]

I really like what you achieve and the oilbrusher paints are excellent , just wondering do you fix with varnish when completed or do you just leave for enough time to dry completely?

[@ivanafricova7507]

We do fix all locomotives with a clear lacquer when the surface is completely dry, but this is optional. We do not fix all wagons, simply because we don't handle them in frequent manners as locos. Thank you for watching.

[@kite7214]

Thanks for your advice with the makeup brushes Ivana, but don’t you find you get green streaks on your cheeks afterwards? ;-)

[@tonycaunt5358]

hi, cant get faded green,can you suggest the nearest alternative?

[@johannesr.]

Great, pragmatic approach to weathering as always! I enjoy your channel very much as, in addition to seeing your fantastic layout, it allows me to learn more and more about British railways. One question, if I may: How is the London station redesign coming along since the last update? Cheers from Germany 👋🏿

[@freezze12]

Have you considered getting some cameras and creating a streaming channel? I personally would love to see some running sessions (particularly at Sheffield) and looking at the comments here others would enjoy watching the upkeep and upgrades you perform on your equipment. I realise this might be a bit too intrusive and fully understand that not every member of McKinley would enjoy hosting streams.

[@dattouk]

We do plan to do something like that. First things first we have to get the railway built and operators trained and the software/hardware/stock all debugged and reliable. Where would we go to understand what is required for streaming? Its one thing to have an IP camera but how do you allow 20 people to all see the same view? If you know of any good web sites that explain it in noddy steps, please let us know. Thanks for your input...

[@freezze12]

Thanks for replying. I think it would be better to simplify the streams by concentrating on a single station/area on the layout. At London for example you could have a camera near the engine shed looking up to the station, so viewers can see the trains come in and depart. Maybe with an overlay of the arrivals/departures board you use on your iPads. You could have those specific operator wear lapel mics, so they can communicate what they are doing to the audience. Maybe have a tech savvy member watching the chat to ask questions from the audience. You could then have that as a setup for a week or two and change to a different area as they are under going their build. I think watching a training session for the new areas would be very interesting. No-one trained me to pilot model trains and my setup will never be a hundredth as complicated as McKinley. I think just a regular KZbin video of a training session would be a great watch

[@richardbradley2335]

Always wanted to see weathering without an AB...not everyone wants one

[@peterjames6607]

A great tutorial, but I'm still not confidant enough to give it a go myself!

[@dattouk]

Have a go with an old coach body or a cheap lima diesel body.

[@ivanafricova7507]

Try on a plastic board first or some cheap scrap models as suggested before. Start with very little strokes, try to make in first model only 'dust' effect. As you will build confidence, it will come. Good luck! Ivana

[@peterjames6607]

@@ivanafricova7507 Thank you. I have just purchased an old Hornby class 47 that I will practice on and as you say, one step at a time!

[@bcsferromodelismo3822]

🇧🇷🚂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@akula9713]

Oh where to find a lady who likes to paint, weather models?