06-24-2023, 06:47 PM
I finished up the boxcars and added a gondola to the mix this week.
After assembling, I went to weathering them all to varying degrees. Some would be almost brand new in my era (late fifties to early sixties) and some would be decades old.
Case in point:
This outside braced boxcar has a build date of 1927 so it would be at least 30 years old by my timeline. Time to age it
I started by using one of my favorite tools for this, a fiberglass eraser brush. using this I wore the paint back down to the primer and the original black plastic in some cases. It also wears down the decals.
I inherited this from another modeler a few years ago. I should start looking for another as it's starting to wear out.
After scratching the wood sides down, I airbrushed the car with grimy black, rust and dirt colors. It's got some miles on it now.
On the other hand, the welded boxcar would be almost new so I only gave it a light weathering, mostly on the lower parts, I weathered the riveted boxcar a bit more.
This is the gondola that I added to the lot for painting. It's another Proto unit, painted and lettered for Pacific Great Eastern in the fifties. It has a build date of 1958 so it would be quite new but on the other hand Gondolas carried a variety of goods so some stayed clean, others got dirty fast. I went middle of the road with this one. I weathered a CN gondola a while back that I weathered a bit heavier as I want to put that one into tie delivery service.
After assembling, I went to weathering them all to varying degrees. Some would be almost brand new in my era (late fifties to early sixties) and some would be decades old.
Case in point:
This outside braced boxcar has a build date of 1927 so it would be at least 30 years old by my timeline. Time to age it
I started by using one of my favorite tools for this, a fiberglass eraser brush. using this I wore the paint back down to the primer and the original black plastic in some cases. It also wears down the decals.
I inherited this from another modeler a few years ago. I should start looking for another as it's starting to wear out.
After scratching the wood sides down, I airbrushed the car with grimy black, rust and dirt colors. It's got some miles on it now.
On the other hand, the welded boxcar would be almost new so I only gave it a light weathering, mostly on the lower parts, I weathered the riveted boxcar a bit more.
This is the gondola that I added to the lot for painting. It's another Proto unit, painted and lettered for Pacific Great Eastern in the fifties. It has a build date of 1958 so it would be quite new but on the other hand Gondolas carried a variety of goods so some stayed clean, others got dirty fast. I went middle of the road with this one. I weathered a CN gondola a while back that I weathered a bit heavier as I want to put that one into tie delivery service.