Welcome back everyone for another amazing live stream! Our guest this time should be someone many recognize if you watched our show on weathering last season (Link to that show below). That’s right, Charlie Zimmerman has returned and this time he is going to cover designing, printing and applying decals. Having been in model railroading since 1982 Charlie has done many custom locomotives and cars which we will see throughout the show but more importantly he’ll be taking us step by step through the decal process. If you are unsure about applying decals (Or already know how and want to learn new techniques) this will be the show for you. By the end of the show you should have the knowledge and confidence to work with decals yourself. Charlie also has his own garden railroad, the Smoke & Oak Railroad of which you can see many videos of on his YouTube channel “Garden RR”.
Written by Andrew Fitch
On this episode of Large Scale Consolidated Live our guest is Charlie Zimmerman. Charlie has been into model railroading since 1982 and G scale since 2010. Charlie has his own garden railroad, the Smoke & Oak Railroad of which you can see many videos of on his YouTube channel “Garden RR”.
One thing you will notice right away when seeing Charlie’s railroad is he prides himself on having unique locomotives and rolling stock which includes doing prototypical weathering. During this show Charlie will show us some examples of custom work he has done but the primary focus is going to be on showing everyone how to weather a boxcar. We’ll go from a clean car to a fully weathered one by the end of the show and anyone should be able to weather their own trains after watching this show.
We would also like to mention that Charlie is also a Contributing editor of Live Steam and Backyard RR magazine. In addition to that he is also an excellent photographer with several photos in Garden Railways and Railpace magazine over the years.