C&OMtnMan
Well-Known Member
The day has finally come:
My old school box cars are finished.
Airbrushed Dullcote on the outside braced cars, and attached trucks:
Attached trucks to these other cars that have been waiting, all posted in these pages previously:
I did identical treatment for the trucks and wheels for all of them, but I did something entirely new for the process:
In the past, I used pastel chalks, dipped a paint brush in 70% isopropyl alcohol, , then into the ground chalk dust, and swabbed it on the wheels. I generally did the same with the trucks, maybe mixing a different color of pastels.
This time, I decided to go a more involved painting route. First, the trucks:
I mixed 2 parts Vallejo Dirt, 2 Parts Vallejo Burnt Umber, 1part Mission Models sStandard Rust, and one part Vallejo White, and painted the trucks. I then gave them a wash made from Vallejo Black, and then dry-brushed the above mix back in some spots, then applied Dullcote over the trucks via hand brushing. For my wheels, I still wanted the texture offered by the pastel chalks. So, ground up some brown pastel chalk dust, and poured it into my above mix, stirred it up vigorously, and brushed it on the wheels faces.
I was pleased with the results, especially for something I can’t really see while I’m doing it. It looks a bit rough zoomed in close, but I’m trying to push the bounds of what I can do in N scale:
That last one is a truck from the C&O 1899 box car, an Athearn. The shape of the metal wheels Athearn uses really shows the wheel face work the best.
Here are the colors I used for the trucks and wheels:
My old school box cars are finished.
Airbrushed Dullcote on the outside braced cars, and attached trucks:
Attached trucks to these other cars that have been waiting, all posted in these pages previously:
I did identical treatment for the trucks and wheels for all of them, but I did something entirely new for the process:
In the past, I used pastel chalks, dipped a paint brush in 70% isopropyl alcohol, , then into the ground chalk dust, and swabbed it on the wheels. I generally did the same with the trucks, maybe mixing a different color of pastels.
This time, I decided to go a more involved painting route. First, the trucks:
I mixed 2 parts Vallejo Dirt, 2 Parts Vallejo Burnt Umber, 1part Mission Models sStandard Rust, and one part Vallejo White, and painted the trucks. I then gave them a wash made from Vallejo Black, and then dry-brushed the above mix back in some spots, then applied Dullcote over the trucks via hand brushing. For my wheels, I still wanted the texture offered by the pastel chalks. So, ground up some brown pastel chalk dust, and poured it into my above mix, stirred it up vigorously, and brushed it on the wheels faces.
I was pleased with the results, especially for something I can’t really see while I’m doing it. It looks a bit rough zoomed in close, but I’m trying to push the bounds of what I can do in N scale:
That last one is a truck from the C&O 1899 box car, an Athearn. The shape of the metal wheels Athearn uses really shows the wheel face work the best.
Here are the colors I used for the trucks and wheels:
