Weathering Rolling Stock, a Continous thread

[AirbrushNo5]

Love the Home Shops Seaboard Central boxcar…!

 

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I took these pictures on 12/4/2023. These are just some of the units that either received the 1st clear coat or its last. Most of these will shipped out on 12/11/2023. Just one of them are mine…

 

[migalyto]

Those look great!

Is the blue GATX boxcar an Exactrail?

 

[AirbrushNo5]

Nice work…!

 

[trailrider]

I guess I'm dumb or something. Why would the prototype do that to the tank?

 

[TLOC]

Those look great!

Is the blue GATX boxcar an Exactrail?

It’s a Roundhouse by Athearn

 

[TLOC]

Nice work…!

Thank you

 

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A couple sort finished for me:

There are a couple graffiti artists/vandals on the other side of the cars

Next

a client commission, completed project

Splatter on the end panels is often seen on the prototype. The client wanted these clean so, no splatter…

For the 3 cars

As usual fade coats were done with Tamiya #X-2 white thinned with Isopropyl Alcohol at about 80/20% with 5 drops added of X-21 flat base. Airbrush applied at 16PSI

The rest of the coloring was hand brushed using various Vallejo colors from the Air and Panzer Aces lines, thinned with distilled ( a first for me). Applied as washes with a mix of roughly 40% paint to 60% distilled water

The graffiti are decals from Circuscitydecals.com. Tags were both custom drawn and decals

The clear coats were Army Painters “air” matte clear thinned 50/50 with the distilled water and applied by airbrush.

 

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SC40279 is considered done!

I did chase the vandals/graffiti artists from the other side of the parked boxcars. Here is what they were up too!

 

[CambriaArea51]

As always nice work Tom. The rust spots look really good.

 

[TLOC]

As always nice work Tom. The rust spots look really good.

Thanks

 

[troyphoto]

I'm up. Managed to keep my socks dry until I showered. They're still dry, but in the laundry, with fresh socks on the tootsies.

More later.

 

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SC40262 is almost there. Graffiti is applied but tags need to be added and the background edge for the larger graffiti

These should be the final 2 personal cars for me for 2023.

There are 7 more cars for Monday morning packaging in various stages right now! After that anything done will be commission work

Golf vacation starts 1pm on Monday till Thursday when hopefully we head to Tampa for the NCAA Final 4 in Volleyball. If the Badger women win tonight we will be in Tampa as support!

The 2 SC cars together

 

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Sitting between the front 9 and the back nine in Pebble Beach, California for the last 18 holes being played of 2023.

i thought I had posted these before I left for the Left Coast but I don‘t see them anywhere.

The wells cars are from Kato and the containers are from Atlas

 

[CambriaArea51]

The wells cars are from Kato

I have a few of those, they are really nice and run good.

 

[migalyto]

Sitting between the front 9 and the back nine in Pebble Beach, California for the last 18 holes being played of 2023.

i thought I had posted these before I left for the Left Coast but I don‘t see them anywhere.

The wells cars are from Kato and the containers are from Atlas

Very nice!

Are they for your layout?

 

[TLOC]

Very nice!

Are they for your layout?

No these came to California in my carry on. The client lives near Pebble Beach in Carmel by the Sea, it was an easy delivery.

I have no Kato well cars and while nice cars they are IMO way too light. I have a few sets of my own (Athearn, Scaletrains and 2 Walthers sets that I will start weathering in probably March. I also have a set of 3 and one of the 5 car sets of Bowser’s spine cars. Theose are very sweet cars!

 

[CambriaArea51]

Years ago when I started weathering I took it easy. Mostly grimy black and a little rust. Finished off with some dull coat. Now fast forward to today with more experience and using more colors and weathering powders it's time to revisit some of these cars. First up is the coal train. Painted the inside from black to aluminum and the couplers to rust. Weathering to follow.

 

[TLOC]

Years ago when I started weathering I took it easy. Mostly grimy black and a little rust. Finished off with some dull coat. Now fast forward to today with more experience and using more colors and weathering powders it's time to revisit some of these cars. First up is the coal train. Painted the inside from black to aluminum and the couplers to rust. Weathering to follow.View attachment 178896View attachment 178897View attachment 178898

Tom, thank you for posting. I was thinking of letting the thread die out. Looking forward to how you weather the interior of the car. I sometimes have to tell my commissions that the interiors of aluminum cars generally don’t rust but the coal siding out will take it down to bare metal. Sometimes though they get the rust anyway!