Hello All, Awesome weathering Mike! I need to learn to weather my stuff one of these days. Here is an RPO I've painted. Totally fictional for my railroad, but it was an 8 dollar kit. Now to find Seaboard decals that are the right size... First custom painted car btw. Robert
Nice work fellows, but I do NOT weather my cars! Here are a few more recently finished freight cars. This is an Eastern Car Works Airslide 2600 CF Covered Hopper, lettered with Microscale Decals. This is an Accurail 6 Post 50' Boxcar. Lettered using three different Microscale Sets for all the lettering. This car used the PCA reporting marks and no herald as the leasing company wanted to be able to quickly grab their cars back if the PC bankruptcy went so bad as to dissolution. Class X71 was used for clean loading, mostly paper products. This is an E&C Corrugated Side Gon Kit. Lettered for the MP using Oddballs decals. Most MP gons were painted boxcar red, but according to legend the manufactiurer in Mexico wanted to know how to paint the cars so they sent a black and white picture of the current car, and since the paint looked black in the picture the cars were painted black. Thanks for looking! Rick
Makes sense to me. I see you do not weather your cars, as you say, but aren't the trucks weathered? They really are great cars and a lot of attention to detail.
Very nice. Silver is hard to paint for me. I usually seal it before I do anything else. It just doesn't seem to hold up.
You are correct, I used any combination of Grimy Black, Weathered Black, Leftover Paint on the trucks and always paint my wheels with either rust, railbrown, or some color that approximates and rusted unpainted wheel, as wheels were to be unpainted so it would be easy to detect cracks in the wheel face. Rick
Here is this weeks contribution on completed freight cars. This is the second car of this class I did, an Atlas 6 Bay Covered Hopper, painted aluminum and lettered with Oddballs Decals. This is a Front Range ACF Boxcar that I painted in a NP Scheme that was used on 10 cars that the NP rebuilt with DF loaders and painted in a special paint scheme. Lettered with Champ Decals. This is the second car of this class I did with a LBF 52' Greenville car standing in for a similar Bethlehem Steel car. Painted Black and lettered with Highball Graphics decals. Thanks for looking! Rick
Rick: Seems like you may have shown us that once before. Apologies if I was being redundant. Your custom cars are just great. They appear regularly every week, too. You should post this into the Weekend Photo Fun thread in the Inspection Pit. :thumbs_up:
That's a great job. Coincidentally I have been researching the Mobile Missile Train about when you posted this. The boxcars that carried the missile launchers had 4 trucks and were about 89' long if I remember correctly (all the info I copied is on my other computer). Would be fun to recreate the whole train.
Great stuff everyone is doing. Here's my summer project, just completed: It's a scratchbuild of the Halliburton car used to transport drilling compounds (mud). I used an article by John Gary in the December, 1983, edition of "Railroad Model Craftsman", pages 90 - 92, which included drawings by Julian Cavalier. I also used a photograph in the November, 1993, "NMRA Bulletin", page 29, by Andy Hamilton, and some photos available on the internet here: rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?road=HWCX The prototype cars were built by Pullman-Standard in 1961, then the tanks, piping and walkways were installed by Halliburton at Duncan, Oklahoma. The cars are designated as Class LM - "A car equipped with one or more permanently enclosd tanks or containers, provided with one or more openings for loading and equipped for pneumatic or gravity unloading. Car is suitable for handling certain dry powdered or granular commodities, and also low viscosity, nondangerous liquid commodities." (Official Railway Equipment Register, January, 2006, page HC-12.) These cars are in the number series HWCX 50 through 124. The car is painted Floquil Caboose Red and Primer; the walkway is by Plano; the ladders are brass ladderstock. I had the white decals custom printed to my specs and I made the Halliburton logos on my computer. The pressure gauges are pin heads.
Atlas U33C weathering underway. I have completed all the brush applications; now on to the air brushing. Hope to run it on the club layout this afternoon.
The car and the U-boat are both very well done! Here is a before picture of this caboose. It was painted in an almost neon red, it had to go. And here is the after picture I hope it was an improvement, the color sure is better now. Robert
CNW 1518, I've done that also. Either I've changed the Knuckles to Kadee Whiskers or Sargents. The two are not compatable but they both hold together quite well. But it has to be two separate trains Have fun. I've got to post pictures of my Down Town Deco structures I've been working on.
Ballasting Ravenswood Yard today. All of my ties and tie plates have been weathered. I need to locate spikes to install the rail, solder, flux and feeder wire. Seems like I'll be heading to Lowe's or Home Depot at some point.
Ski train is getting a matching rotary snow plow. Should be in the mail when I get home today. Plan is to repaint in the Ski Train color scheme like this: To match my ski train repaint: -Art
15 Flat Cars in various stages of painting, weathering, coupler and wheel adjustments. 1 Quonset Hut Micro-Trains Military HQ Building and Barracks Building 5 Hoppers waiting to be weathered. 1 Gantry Crane 2 Roco Shermans and a Deuce and a Half with Quad Fifty ready for paint. 2 Genesis SD70 Macs ready for sound decoder installs. And probably a few more things that are underneath it all. Trying to get my military base layout ready for club shows and the NMRA 2012 Grand Rails convention. Ty Hogue Holland, MI