cattle car wheathering help.

[shawn63]

that box car is outstanding !! do you use a air brush or wheathering powders?

 

[CNR Glen]

I sencond that. How was the weathing done on the boxcar?

 

[zoegraf]

that box car is outstanding !! do you use a air brush or wheathering powders?

Thanks. I used chalks and brought out some of the details with a grimy black wash.

I really like the plastic accurail uses; it is very easy to carve off the moulded details. Unfortunately they don't make much that I require for the railroad I'm modeling and era.

Here is a sample of one of their hoppers that I kitbashed and added brass details.

 

[zoegraf]

I sencond that. How was the weathing done on the boxcar?

Thanks.

I used a photo of the prototype to use as a guide. I noticed that that most of the boards on the car were faded almost to the point of being pinkish. So I added a little white paint to a bottle of CN red#11 then brushed it on many individual boards and on the braces. The rest was weathered with chalks and a wash of thinned grimy black. Before I did all this, I dullcoted the car and after all the weathering was done. I dullcoted it again. This shot shows the highlights better.