 For this What's Neat this week, it's June. And Joe Steinman, I want you to know, has come up with a concept that needs to be talked about. Rather than oil paint weathering the traditional way with oil paints in a brush, which has always allowed the imperfections of crooked streaks that could ruin the model, Joe has come up with an idea. All of these freight cars have been modeled and weathered with the idea of weathering solutions, new idea of decals. Rather than pulling your oil paint weathering, using real oils in a brush, now it can be absolutely foolproof by using straight decals. But simply by taking straight, different variations, colors of streaks, you can even get up underneath your hand rails underneath the roof locks. Something that we could never do with a brush and get right and get straight every time. So for this What's Neat this week, I really think that it's worth talking about weathering solutions, new way to weather, where the novice and the beginner can have quality, contest-looking freight cars simply in a matter of hours by using these decals. I'm going to let Joe explain it in his own words, and we'll show you how to go about doing this. For this June, What's Neat this week? Hi, I'm Joe Steinman. I'm the creator of Weathering Solutions. And today we're going to do a What's Neat this week on Weathering Solutions. And you may be asking yourself, what is Weathering Solutions? Well, going back about eight years ago, I was in the middle of weathering a bunch of cars. And I said, god, there's got to be an easier way of doing this. And I came up with this concept of do the artwork one time and reproduce it to build your fleet up of weathering cars. So these models were done by Mike Morrison. And this will just give you an idea of what we have going on here. What we've came up with is all sorts of different weathering effects for model railroading. And it doesn't matter if you are a in-scale model railroader, we've got decals for small, medium, and large. And you can do just about anything from in-scale to G-scale to O-scale. So kind of getting behind the decals themselves, I had been in model railroading for many years and never really gotten the prototypical running. One day I was invited to come down to Ken Patterson's and see what he has going on down here. And it kind of inspired me to take my modeling to the next level. That's whenever I started getting into the oil base, weathering with powders, oils, acrylics, you name it, dirt from the driveway, wherever. So wanting to bring my models to the next level, I started doing different types of railroad cars, locomotives, and so forth. And I came up with the idea of why not reproduce the weathering effect one time. And then I'm able to reproduce that several different ways and several different times to create my whole entire fleet of... So what this allows people to do is, for the average Joe, or the beginner or advanced modeler, what it allows them to do is it allows them to take a car and either put a wash on it, do some fades, however they want to do it, use our decals. And they can have a competition ready model within 24 hours. And it's really with today's technology, the way that we're able to print these, is it really does create a very prototypical look. And it allows the beginners to now step up their modeling to a sense of being able to produce something that's of show quality. We also have graffiti. And the reason it sets us apart from all the other graffiti, let's say, manufacturers, is our graffiti, we actually print down a white background first. Then we're able to do color on top of that. And with our color, we can do transitions. We can do fades. We can do stuff that nobody else can do. And our decals, literally, are taken from prototype photographs from real rail cars. So anything that you get from Weathering Solutions will have that prototypical look to it. Heck, I like using them because it takes the guesswork out of it. You're able to get that rust streak exactly vertical. All right, to give you an example, we went down to downtown St. Louis to do a photo shoot. And I had all these cars lined up to do a photo shoot. I took the pictures. I actually posted them on Facebook under Weathering Solutions. And Ken, basically, he sends a comment back and said nice photos of the real train cars. And my response was, Ken, I took these pictures. They're HO scale. So by me fooling Ken Patterson, I think this is a testimonial of how realistic these are. Ken, did I not fool you? I thought they were absolutely real. I saw them on Facebook. I said, great hunting, Joe. You got some great Ichabod shots. And you came back at me and said, Ken, these are models. And my jaw dropped. What you've got's a good product. I think it's really worth showing the rest of the modelers out there the effort that you've done because it's going to pay off the average guy at Can Weather overnight with your product with striking contest quality results. You've made it easy for all of us now to be professionals. For a minute, I want to talk about tripod heads. For about 15 years, I've used this tripod head that fit right on top of my Bogan tripod. It's a three-handled head. They still make them. They still manufacture them. I've actually worn this one out to the point where it will not stay steady anymore. It's just it's literally worn out. But recently, I switched tripod heads to what's a one-handle type of a head. These things are actually really great for modeling, for shooting model photos. Simply because it's a one-handle. You look through the camera. You're able to adjust all ways by simply squeezing the trigger and then releasing in the head stage right where you want it to stay. Jeff also uses this type of a head. It's more of a vertical type head, same principle. But it's really handy in that you only squeeze the lever one time, position the camera exactly where you want it, release, and you've got your shot set up just by a one-handed operation rather than twisting three knobs to set up your photograph. It's actually a lot easier. And I'd suggest you guys, if you start shooting model pictures outside or indoors, invest in one of these types of head. I think you're going to find that it will make your photography jobs a lot easier to do with good results. What you shooting today, Jeff? Just a new freight car. I finished recently. It wasn't really based on a prototype, but it's an X-Berlington Northern Walk-A-Side Pox car. It's on the Montana Rail Link and they had a lot of cars they bought off the BN that had pretty bad paint failures where the blue paint basically just washed right off the car. That's nice. So yeah, like I said, not based on a prototype, kind of a test for how to do the technique. Very nice. It's a good day to shoot today.