Category: weathered

Welcome to a bonus episode of Rusty’s Quality Used Trains, where we sell quality models that have only ever had one little old lady owner who only ever ran them after Church on Sundays… Well not quite. But instead, here’s a selection of the final sec…

With the warmer weather now upon us in sunny Queensland, it seems that weathering season is over for another year. Having just finished weathering the last of a fellow modeler’s collection that I was helping him to sell, the air compressor downstairs i…

Showcase #33 kicks off with some N scale weathering that I completed last week. I love the size advantage that N scale offers in every aspect except for one… weathering! For something that looks like it should be simpler to weather than its larger co…

This post sees me bring the number of models I have weathered to sell to over 300! But I’m not done yet. So, let’s hop into this post starting with the Dapol OO Gauge bulk grain hopper above. There is still another large plastic storage crate full of m…

Another weathered by Philden Showcase featuring some of the U.S. outline HO Scale models that I have weathered this week. Starting with the above 50′-foot modern Hi-Cube box car for the Aberdeen & Rockfish line. All of these are now live on eBay, l…

Another batch of HO Scale American outline freight cars are now weathered and available for sale!Currently I am working through a large collection of U.S. outline models on behalf of a friend, whereby I am weathering each model and listing them for sal…

My original Philden NSW A4 railway station building is available for sale.After sitting safely stored inside a cardboard box at the top of my wardrobe for the past 5 years, my original HO scale Walker Models A4 NSW Railway Station building this week jo…

Finally, I got around to weathering the NSW candy RUB style carriages that were supposed to form the basis of my short North Coast passenger train operations on Philden Beach, only for, umm…. well… something to befall those plans and instead lead m…

My Pacific National era sugar hopper fleet recently received some attention.I finally managed to catch up on some weathering that had been waiting for me to complete for my own layout. In this case, the Auscision Models HO scale NSW NGGF sugar hoppers …

This week I managed to fire-up my airbrush and weather a couple of boxes of the SDS Models FX/VPFX flour wagons to list on eBay. These were the very last of my Victorian HO scale models I had sitting aside waiting to for some spare time to give them a …