11.9.3 Colored Pencils

Modeling Information

Colored pencils are wax-based, rather than the usual graphite-based, pencils. This makes them very creamy and easier to blend and burnish. They blend well. The downsides to these pencils is that the fragile 'lead' can shatter in the pencil and break whenever you use  it.

There are numerous brands of colored pencils. Railroad modeler appear to prefer the Prismatic and AK brands.

The WWSL. The WWSL uses the following pencils for weathering:

Prismatic PC 935 Premier Black PC 938 White PC 940 Sand PC 941 Light Umber PC 942 Yellow Ochre PC 943 Burnt Ochre PC 944 Terra Cotta PC 945 Sienna Brown PC 946 Dark Brown PC 949 Silver PC 997 Beige PC 1003 Spanish Orange PC 1012 Jasmine PC 1031 Henna PC 1033 Mineral Orange PC 1034 Goldenrod  PC 1054 Warm Grey PC 1061 Cool Grey PC 1081 Chestnut

AK pencils AK10001 Black AK10002 Rubber AK10003 Smoke AK10004 White AK10006 Olive Green AK10007 Light Green AK10008 Dark Green AK10009 Sand AK10010 Sepia AK10011 Light Rust AK10012 Medium Rust AK10013 Dark Rust AK10016 Light Chipping for Wood AK10017 Dark Chipping for Wood AK10018 Gun Metal (Graphite) AK10019 Chipping Color AK10024 Dark Grey AK10025 Neutral Grey AK10027 Concrete Marks AK10028 Earth Brown AK10029 Buff AK10030 Streaking Dirt AK10033 Aluminum AK10034 Gold AK10035 Dark Aluminum AK10036 Bronze

 

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