Weathering Rolling Stock, a Continous thread

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Thank you. I have called that customer phone number before and they do not repair units like Badger does. I can buy the parts to rebuild but it’s actually cheaper to buy a clearance unit that has only a blemish on the body. I have enough airbrushes that I truly don’t need another. I will however put it aside again and pull it apart another day. Maybe on you tube someone will do a video on the solution.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Nicely done

Thank you.

I've used acetone to clean the airbrush for stubborn stuck paint.

 

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I had to walk maybe 200’ last night from the Rosatis pizza place where I placed an order for their great Italian beef while the sandwich, dipped, was made to the Madison Hobby Stop, my LHS. I’m a sucker for modern reefers as that white is such a great canvas for the graffiti artists/vandals.

This is my 1st one from Walthers as I have Scaletrains, Intermountain, Exactrail and the then BLMA ( now atlas) cars. Not as many finicky fragile details but a well done car that rolls (ST r u reading) super out of the box!

I will throw a matte finish only on the car and between now and the new year I’m sure a tag or some graffiti will appear

 

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Final approval sent for the blue tank car, the rest have been approved

 

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Between pictures sent to commission clients, the spray booth and the benches I have been comfortably busy.

8 of Marlin39’s boxcars have a second fade coat

The reefer has a single spray of matte clear to knock out the sheen. That’s accomplished so I pulled the truck frames and wheels. They now have their base color applied

Marlin39’s truck frames and wheels also have the first coloring. Because there are 8 cars in the batch I did split my base color 4 and 4. One set of 4 cars has my more hull red color applied and the other 4 have more of a burnt umber coloring for the base

Finally, I also found that I will be hand drawing tags instead of using my air brush for tagging the 6 ethanol cars being worked on. Not a good steady hand day for fine airbrush line drawings. There will be 3-6 tags on each car side with no duplicates. I’m good for 2 cars at most per day hand drawing. The client has sent me many photos of tank car tags that roll in the LA area refineries. I have plenty of markers

There will be no progress tomorrow Thanksgiving or at least none shown…

So to all the modelers who check in

I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving

Tom

 

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The eight box cars

from Marlin39 will be weathered similar to this but no heavier, stay tuned

 

[Bruette]

I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones.

And thank you for sharing your amazing work.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Some more small detail I see on the rails watching videos. Replacement wheels with an orange rust wheel face and blue bearing caps stand out as they roll by. Sometimes one axle sometimes two.

 

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones.

And thank you for sharing your amazing work.

It’s been a good time on this thread of sharing my work and what others contribute. I am thankful it worked out the way I hoped. I wanted constructive criticism, on point discussions with little drift, shared tips and for others to contribute to the conversations. I think CambriaArea51 (Tom) would agree that his locomotive continuous weathering thread has also achieved the same

Next year will not be as busy as I start to pull back on the weathering commissions but there will still be much to share

 

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Some more small detail I see on the rails watching videos. Replacement wheels with an orange rust wheel face and blue bearing caps stand out as they roll by. Sometimes one axle sometimes two.View attachment 205592

The issue I have with the blue bearing caps is I am unsure what should be blue

That looks great Tom, thanks for sharing

 

[CambriaArea51]

The issue I have with the blue bearing caps is I am unsure what should be blue

That looks great Tom, thanks for sharing

Here are a couple of examples. One I took and the springs were new also. Second on Youtube where this guy was showing trucks, I paused on this set.

 

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Here are a couple of examples. One I took and the springs were new also. Second on Youtube where this guy was showing trucks, I paused on this set.View attachment 205617View attachment 205618

Oh like the blue springs. That definitely would attract attention. Thanks

 

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A couple asked for a picture of the covers off the gondola. The helicopter was still available

 

[C&OMtnMan]

One Of My Hardest Labored-For Weathered Cars Has Made It To A Strange Home Indeed…

Yes, my 1910’s Borden Milk reefer IS heading an SP Daylight consist being pulled by SP 4449, but that’s where my mother-in-law wants it.

I built the tabletop Christmas tree layout for my in-laws nearly a decade ago; I convinced her (who knew nothing about trains) back then that the SP Daylight was the color and stylistic match for the layout setting. She bought the loco, and the Daylight consist was my further gift.

I was showing her pictures of my latest doings in weathering a couple of months ago, and she indicated a wish for a bright yellow, lightly weathered reefer of her own.

There were too many goings on with the family, work, and hurricanes to work up something new, so I just decided to give her the one she saw.

She’s been a great mother-in-law, so was glad to do it. My only regret is I am unable to find another Atlas N Scale Borden’s/Eagle Brand milk wood reefer; I apparently bought the last one in existence, which you see here in the photo.

She likes it.

She has a neighbor who has his own layout, O Scale narrow gage of a short line railroad serving mines in early 20th-Century Nevada. Hand-laid track, hand-built switches, etc. I’ve seen his layout - it’s nice, and he’s a nice guy.

He is over to my in-laws from time to time and has seen what I’ve built for them. I’ve rehearsed my mother-in-law on what to say if he remarks on any lack of prototypicality in how things now look:

“Pete, it’s my railroad, and I make the rules on how it’s run!”

 

[CambriaArea51]

Three more grain cars in the works. Trucks, underside, and sides weathered. Sides are done in powders and sealed. Next will be some airbrush blending.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Some airbrush burnt umber and desert brown to blend to give it that milage look.

 

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Some airbrush burnt umber and desert brown to blend to give it that milage look. View attachment 205738

Nicely done

 

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Three more grain cars in the works. Trucks, underside, and sides weathered. Sides are done in powders and sealed. Next will be some airbrush blending.View attachment 205735

Those look very convincing to me.

 

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Remember these?

I showed them on my FB page and had asks to buy them! I texted the client and he said no he loves them and will not sell them.

Told the people asking and 2 asked if I had any tank cars I could do the same to. Someone asking me if I had extra cars!!! Image that, I do. Anyway sold today 4 tank cars from Walthers Mainline to 2 different modelers for weathering and delivery 2/21/2025. That is beyond my normal 6-8 week lead times. But with an uncertain December for us I added a cushion!

 

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This is called trust your process!

I am working with 3 of Marlin39’s Western Pacific cars. The cars are faded and the undersides, truck frames and wheels are weathered.

The roof is next and the first part of the roof is the roof walk. The cars have a build date of 1952 so these will not be heavily weathered, some rust (not much) but in the appropriate spots for the time that David models. But we have to make the roof walks stand a little bit out over the roof.

I used Model Air orange rust as a base on the roof walks shown in Picture #1. After drying with some help from the blow dryer I added Model Air burnt umber as shown in Picture #2. It’s drying (no blower dryer for this) for 3 hours as I move to other models. Picture #3 are the colors I used. These were straight from the bottle but the surface had some water spread across it first. I also touched the brake wheel and footstand for the brake wheel.

I know it’s not much and I rarely show these type of in process pictures. But the roof walks look terribly over weathered considering what David asked for. These will dry out to (90% certain) to what I want before moving on. Experience tells me this will be fine. So figure out your process and trust it! Besides if you or someone else doesn’t like it, you can easily remove it before it’s clear coated

VA#71.130 orange rust

VA # 71.040 burnt umber

Proof of colors, these are thoroughly mixed prior to use

My mixer. Expensive at $90 a few years ago but has turned invaluable to me. Completely a subjective statement but the paints are much better mixed than shaking the bottle by hand