RBOX 33604

[cnw1961]

Here is the last pic showing RBOX 33604 shiny and clean …



This is how I turned it into a rustbucket: First I carefully sanded off the lettering before painting the sides of the car with my airbrush to get a dirty, grimy look. I used a 1:1 mix of brown and black acrylic paints that was heavily diluted. It took at least 10 to 15 passes with the airbrush to build up the right amount of dirt. Because the paint being so thin, I had to dry it with a hairdryer after each pass or it would start to run. Next I painted the roof using two shades of brown (acrylic paints). First I applied the lighter, more yellowish color, stippling with a paintbrush using only very little paint. Then I applied the darker brown, again building it up slowly. Some of the rusty patches on the car were done with the same acrylic paints I used on the roof but I also used rust colored chalk. I applied clear paint with a thin paintbrush and then used another paintbrush to put a fair amount of chalk on it. After the paint had dried, I brushed off the exceeding chalk.

Decide for yourself if the car is looking better now:

[faraway]

That is an excellent weathering job but the Corman Geep is a real beauty too
Kurt, where did you get the Corman decals?
Got is: http://www.highballgraphics.com/L-151.htm (H0 scale)
ps. This is O, isn't it?

[Ralph]

Wow! Nicely done!

[MasonJar]

Great job. Nice pix of materials (and explanation) to achieve the effect.

Andrew

[Tom]

The weathering is fantastic, but I am always a little bummed to see a dirty Railbox car, as a kid, I always liked that scheme. You did a terrefic job though of representing what an average Railbox car usually looks like though, those cars are pretty ruggedly handled. Love that Geep though. BEAUTIFUL. Did you paint that?

[Sumpter250]

The weathering is excellent !!

The appearance of the car raises a question, so I will have to go "to the source" ---- a prototype RBOX car, or three, for the answer.

I would have thought, that the car's number, and dimensional data, might have been "re-touched" a couple of times before the car ever got scheduled for a completely new paint job....
( just to keep the brakeman from exhibiting his proficiency with the use of profanity - "where the &^!*^% is 33604" )..... just a thought.
As I said I'll have to go look at a few RBOX cars, my curiosity has been "awakened".

[jwb]

Here are some Railboxes in a photo from about 6 months ago:    
The paint scheme on both the model and two of the cars in the photo are in fact from the 1970s -- in other words, 40 years old!

[Harry]

Kurt , wonderful

[cnw1961]

Thank you guys for your very kind comments. I very much enjoyed to "ruin" this nice clean car, so I am glad you like it, too.

Reinhard, yes it is O-scale. The decals for the Geep are from Highball Graphics: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mgdecals.com/homepage.htm">http://www.mgdecals.com/homepage.htm</a><!-- m -->. They offer decals for N, HO and O. The Corman decals were not available in O, but at my request they resized the HO decals. They are also doing custom decals and if you send them your artwork, they will print decals for you.

Tom, I built the GP9 from a Red Caboose body kit, making my own chassis and using a P&D Hobbies drive. It is much cheaper and runs much better at low speeds than an Atlas O-scale Geep. BTW, the body of the Atlas Geep is the same as they bought the tooling from Red Caboose.





Pete, I looked at countless pics of RBOX cars to see how far I could go with my weathering without overdoing it. You find some of those RBOX cars looking almost like new and others where the reporting marks and data is even less legible than on my car: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2366253">http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2366253</a><!-- m -->. Poor brakemen :mrgreen: :mrgreen: .

[Tom]

VERY cool. I have two of those Undec Red Caboose GP9 kits sitting in various stages of construction on my work bench right now building for a friend. I LOVE those kits. Very nicely done. I appreciate the pics of the P&D drive, that is what I was considering putting in mine, but wasn't sure how they were built. Now I know. These two here are going to be moderately weathered Western Pacific Perlman Green GP9's, need to find one more RC GP9 for myself to go on my bookshelf.