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In this episode Chris explores the craft of weathering railroad model structures and buildings.
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In this episode host Chris Chianelli visits Greenfield Village, part of the massive museum called
The Henry Ford. Henry Ford was passionate about saving buildings and artifacts from Americana, and Greenfield Village is part of that vision.
Greenfield Village not only features an impressive collection of restored and preserved buildings and homes dating back to the 18th century. But the staff here is constantly struggling between preserving and restoring, and presenting the building as it would have looked in the appropriate era. That's where weathering comes in. It's a natural patina caused by climate changes. The same holds true for a realistic model railroad.
Later in the program Chris visits a model railroader who knows about weathering. You might say he's obsessed with creating realistic buildings with the appropriate weathering for a layout based in the Rocky Mountains in the late '20s and early '30s.
Later Chris is joined in the studio by guest John Lowrance, a master model railroader, who demonstrates various methods of weathering as he shows how to weather a freight car.
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