Show us your weathered boxcars and covered hoppers

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man that rust work along the top and bottom is insane. is that technique/powder, actually metal or is that is a trade secret? those rocks behind there are pretty legit too
 
It's just technique I guess. Most of it is acrylic and/or oil artist paints. There is a bit of powder at the end just to tone it down a bit, and dirty up the seams and sills. The rocks are just Woodland Scenics molds. I recently ripped off the 3 rail track and replaced it with some Atlas 2 rail track. Looks much better since I only use it to display 2 rail cars ;)

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Time to dust off this thread again!!
I finally got around to installing the Plano roofwalks on my Intermountain PS4750 hopper PTLX 14944. I custom made the PTLX and "Crawford Grain" decals in Adobe Illustrator- I used Microscale ACI tags, COTS label and some white data for the hopper bays and slope sheets. The car also got 36" metal wheels, Kadee 58s, cut levers and air hoses. The car is lightly weathered to represent a car after about 3 years of service.

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Thanks for looking!
 
The patches are clear decal film trimmed to a "rolled on" shape then brush painted to give an uneven coverage prior to applying. The rust is burnt sienna and burnt umber artist's oils. The darker was dabbed on first with a toothpick, once it had partially dried the lighter was dabbed on over top and dragged down with a brush moist with turpenoid. :) I still want to add a dark grimy wash, but will let what is on it dry for a bit.
 
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RockDoc said:
The patches are clear decal film trimmed to a "rolled on" shape then brush painted to give an uneven coverage prior to applying. The rust is burnt sienna and burnt umber artist's oils. The darker was dabbed on first with a toothpick, once it had partially dried the lighter was dabbed on over top and dragged down with a brush moist with turpenoid. :) I still want to add a dark grimy wash, but will let what is on it dry for a bit.
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I think it looks fine as-is,
most of the time those types cars are basically clean from being rain washed a lot, they're just worn, faded from sitting in cleaner settings. Other types of cars subjected to heavy industrial stuff collect grease/oil, pollution etc. If you do add, I say make it very thin just to highlight seams, rivots etc, it's easy to over do it, myself and many others tend to go to far.
Great job.
 
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You're pretty much bang on with your comment on highlighting seams and the ribs. I'll try to resist the temptation to add too much, but the car just looks too fresh on its lower half. I'll have to play around on some extra parts to get a feel for how strong to go. This car will be in the ranks of the more battle weary grain cars on my fleet, along side some shopped and painted second-hand cars and some recent deliveries.

I'm using these two photos as inspiration for the weathering.
 
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RockDoc said:
The patches are clear decal film trimmed to a "rolled on" shape then brush painted to give an uneven coverage prior to applying. The rust is burnt sienna and burnt umber artist's oils. The darker was dabbed on first with a toothpick, once it had partially dried the lighter was dabbed on over top and dragged down with a brush moist with turpenoid. :) I still want to add a dark grimy wash, but will let what is on it dry for a bit.
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Looks great. Thanks for sharing the way you did it.
 


Those covered hoppers are supposed to use 36" wheels and not 33"?? I just installed a whole crap load of 33" on kits i won on ebay.
 
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