Weathering Rolling Stock, a Continous thread

[CambriaArea51]

Got a side job done for a club member. 60 containers lightly weathered, dull coat with some earth, Some got the wheel splash, most of what I seen on trains is that they are mostly faded and mud dirty.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Can't waste paint, I always have a car on hand to use up paint in the airbrush cup. So one of the coal cars I've painted and decaled gets a weather job.

 

[santafewillie]

Some got the wheel splash,

Wheel splash seems to be the most prominent weathering that I see on containers coming out of Alliance Intermodal Yard.

 

[TLOC]

Got a side job done for a club member. 60 containers lightly weathered, dull coat with some earth, Some got the wheel splash, most of what I seen on trains is that they are mostly faded and mud dirty.View attachment 157537View attachment 157538View attachment 157539

That‘s the way I have seen them. Excellent work

 

[TLOC]

Can't waste paint, I always have a car on hand to use up paint in the airbrush cup. So one of the coal cars I've painted and decaled gets a weather job.View attachment 157540

Being efficient, good move.

I have a bottle at the paint booth that I pour the rare excess paint into. It becomes a weathering wash when it hits about 50%.

 

[TLOC]

Wheel splash seems to be the most prominent weathering that I see on containers coming out of Alliance Intermodal Yard.

Dansrailroad2011 on you tube shows his method for wheel splash. He uses a metal ruler to flick the paint off the brush. It looks really good. I will find a link to one of the videos where he demonstrates the method.

 

[TLOC]

Hello fellow modelers of weathering effects or modelers just breezing bye.

Thanks CambriaArea51 for keeping the thread alive. It is appreciated Tom.

Just stopping bye to talk about a project I am starting next week. Because the housing move is happening the hobby room at this house is empty. Today the paint booth was placed at the place we should be living at for the next year at least.

At the hobby shop today I purchased a couple Athearn RTR box cars.

Decent cars, nothing exceptional except the price was $18 and I got 20 of them. The full story is at the Mail room thread. Got home and sold 18 of them

This is what I found online and the photographer credit is on the picture.

Lightly faded as the car build date is Summer 2003 and the photo date is 2/21/2021.

Same car with the photo dated 3/19/2014. That’s 11 years after leaving the production line and it looks brand new. I can’t find any info if it was repainted but logic tells me it had to be.

So modelers license will be invoked as I model 2015 and this one is for me. I am going with hand painted graffitI. 1st up is the fade, coming after the 26th.

 

[TLOC]

Its that time of year that in our family is one of the happiest, Christmas. From the OConnell’s to you, have a great holiday

 

[TLOC]

Here’s a old Roundhouse Reefer I lightly weathered and added to the rolling stock roster last spring. I used just a soft makeup brush and a rust colored chalk stick. I used a Graphite pencil for the hardwareView attachment 158313View attachment 158314View attachment 158315View attachment 158316View attachment 158317View attachment 158318View attachment 158319View attachment 158320

Lee very nice. Looks like you have a great touch. There is enough dirt and grime to know the car is in service but not over done.

Thanks

 

[TLOC]

Thanks Tom. Sometimes I like to just lightly weather specially if I really like the rolling stock or power unit I don’t wanna kill it with weathering and lose how nice it looks. I’ll have more to post of you don’t mind I’ve been working on.

Lee, by all means jump in with both feet. Our normal audience likes weathering but we are also interested in everyone’s techniques.

 

[CambriaArea51]

I'm trying to get a few more cars weathered, but this snow storm could keep me going at work through the holiday. Next weekend is rain and 51.

 

[TLOC]

I'm trying to get a few more cars weathered, but this snow storm could keep me going at work through the holiday. Next weekend is rain and 51.

The blizzard to end all blizzards is disrupting the Midwest too. Unfortunately for me the layout is down, my cave is completely empty and I want to run trains. My paint booth and bench have been set up but 3 miles +/- away.

Be safe out there

 

[Smudge617]

I still need to start weathering this, probably a grey or black wash, I don't think it's too bad, apart from the tank, which looks terrible, that came out very streaky for some reason, I may be able to use that when the time to add grime comes, but it's a work in progress.

 

[TLOC]

Good late afternoon. My plan was not to weather until fully in the temporary new place sometime probably in mid-January. But, I am antsy, bored, feeling better and the paper booth is hooked up. I semi organized my space so here I am.

I started a MOW Vehicle weathering thread on 12/28/2022.

I received some freight cars in the parcel drop off today.

4- TBOX box cars to be light to medium weathered. These were purchased to be weathered and sold. They will not see any tracks on my layout

4- CHSX Cenex tank cars. To be lightly weathered but mainly faded. The ethanol tank cars I have pictures of are not heavily weathered, faded yes, real dirty, no. I definitely will keep 2 for me but I will be running the 4 on a through train, then sell 2 off.

I have another set of 3 tank cars that will be weathered at the same time as the 8 cars above. Here showed up last week.

Finally I have 2 for me rarely purchased Athearn Genesis cars coming. I am not sure why and this is strictly my opinion but I do not believe Genesis cars are a good value. I do not like the couplers or the wheel sets, so those will be changed. Rarely have I found the Genesis series to have car numbers matching actual prototype cars. The number series maybe right but the actual number was not produced. Just me!

But I wanted a couple acid tank cars for the paper mill, so after screwing around for the last 6 months or so I ordered them before Christmas from the LHS. Ignore SpringCreek’s price that actually was the best online I could find. But the LHS gave me a much better deal

I was hoping to clear coat the above cars together but the others arrived early and the LHS has not received acknowledgement of his order from Athearn with my stuff in it. So, tonight the above cars will get started.

 

[CambriaArea51]

I have a few of those Walthers TBOX and CSX cars, they are nice. As for the Athearn, the original Genesis box cars (high cube) are now the ready to run with a couple of upgrades and a much higher price.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Athearn Genesis rolling stock more expensive than everyone else now?

Yes, there is currently a lot of "hobby is dying" over at MRH forums in the topic about MicroEngineering track company announcing they are selling the business. The fallacy there is that a great many model railroad companies are owned by one guy and when he is ready to retire, and there is no...

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Post #56 has the pics comparing the two.

 

[TLOC]

I have a few of those Walthers TBOX and CSX cars, they are nice. As for the Athearn, the original Genesis box cars (high cube) are now the ready to run with a couple of upgrades and a much higher price.

The Genesis cars are nice, I am not criticizing that. I’m not a cheapie and if there is value I will pay the price. The Genesis cars I have recently weathered new out of the box from the latest runs feel like a rip off. The trucks are usually bad enough I replace them with Tangent. The couplers are cheap but not a terrible issue as if any coupler is not a Kadee I replace them. Give me a Proto from Walthers over Genesis any day. But, locomotives, I absolutely love the Genesis line but this thread is about freight cars…

 

[Smudge617]

I've done the Sanding Tower Tom kindly sent me, not perfect, but weathering is still new to me, but I'm learning.
On doing some research on these, seems this Sanding Tower is for steam locomotives, from what I can gather, Diesel's have sand boxes mounted on the side of the engine not on top.

I may tinker with it some more, but for the moment I'm reasonably happy with it.

 

[CambriaArea51]

The Genesis cars are nice, I am not criticizing that. I’m not a cheapie and if there is value I will pay the price. The Genesis cars I have recently weathered new out of the box from the latest runs feel like a rip off. The trucks are usually bad enough I replace them with Tangent. The couplers are cheap but not a terrible issue as if any coupler is not a Kadee I replace them. Give me a Proto from Walthers over Genesis any day. But, locomotives, I absolutely love the Genesis line but this thread is about freight cars…

The only thing with Genesis cars is that they are on the light side. They end up on the rear of the train.

 

[TLOC]

The only thing with Genesis cars is that they are on the light side. They end up on the rear of the train.

You got me on being light weighted cars. I think I will pull the scale out and weigh them tomorrow. Heading to the bench now after a 90 minute nap after a light dinner.