Weathering a Special Boxcar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Jason, aka "The Train Freak" and I are going to be shipping to and from industries on each other's layouts. He models the Cotton Belt in Arkansas, and I the Seaboard Airline in Richmond, Virginia. We have a couple of the same freight cars, one of the Cotton Belt and one of the SAL. We've each created waybills shipping a load of furniture from Y Junction, AR on Jason's layout to a goods warehouse on mine, and before we each filmed it, I thought it would be a good idea to weather mine.
I follow a lot of techniques I have learned from John Crowdis on JC's Rip Track, and I highly recommend checking his channel out.
For this weathering job, I just wanted a moderately faded look, as the car's build date makes it about 12 years old on my layout. I employed a dot fade over a satin clear coat to tone down the brightness and make it look like it has been in the sun for a dozen years. Next I gave it a gloss coat to seal in the fade and used a pin wash to bring out the details. Both of those methods employ oil paints. After that, I gave it a matte coat and airbrushed some acrylics for a light dusting of the trucks, wheels, underbody, and along the bottom of the sides and ends. Not a contest model, but it certainly gives a good bit of realism to an inexpensive Accurail kit!
You can check out Jason's "The Train Freak" channel here:
/ @thetrainfreak
And here is a link to JC's Rip Track:
/ @jcsriptrack
The gauntlet has been thrown down!!
yeah man! all in good fun
Great looking car john.
Thanks 👍
Terrific results, & not overly complicated.
Thank you!
Boxcar weathering came out great. 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Man I got my hands full with this one as now I have to weather mine...lol! Dude that looks great! I did order some of the wheel paint mask things, whatever they are called. Soon as that gets in, I will get a challenge accepted video up! Great job John! - Jason
Right on! get after it, Jason! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
That is going to be so cool! Great idea!
I think so too! Jason and I are excited to collab on it
Looks good John 👍🏼 Nice technique
Thank you Bill! Hope you are well - Cheers!
good job with helpfull tips for all of us
Glad it was helpful!
Oh no Jason got you to get one of those! He is after me to get one.... Nice job! Take care!
LOL! He actually showed it off to me. I have one of his SAL cars too...lol.
@@TheTrainFreak 😂
Jason is right, I saw it on eBay fairly cheap and had to have it on my layout in his honor. Once I had it, I sent a pic to him and the whole operational exchange thing spawned from there.
@@johnarthur6302 Ah, I am looking for one secretly....don’t tell him ;) lol
I spoken about mailing my cars to another railroader too!
Very cool - in this case we each had the same car, and so we were simulating movement from his railroad to mine. Good time!
"Shack of Sit".....
I see what you did there. :)
That is Jason's industry - and most of his naming is pretty hilarious.
The car turned out beautifully, John! Still to this day I’m surprised how such simple steps can elevate a car from looking fake and plastic to something that all of us would love to have on our own layout. And with the exception of waiting for paint to dry, took nearly no time at all.
Thanks for the tips on the floor polish as well! I hadn’t seen that anywhere and might be something to steal from you as I start weathering up cars and whatnot on my layout. I love John’s channel and I must have missed that suggestion at some point over the last few years. Thanks for taking the time to highlight it.
Appreciate you and your modeling. Be well my friend,
Sean
Thank you Sean, It is not especially difficult - as you say, a couple evenings of 30-45 minutes including airbrush clean up and it was done. A wiser man than me would take on a couple at a time.
Yeah John C - in the intro to weathering playlist on his channel - talks about his homemade clear coats. I use his formulas!
good vid looks good good job
Thanks 👍
I have weathered over two hundred cars for my layout and I’m not sure if anyone becomes an “expert” at it. It does surprise me that a modeler can use a variety of methods and still end up with a nicely weathered car. I’ve never tried the method you used and probably never will, but I enjoyed watching the process.
I think the hard part of weathering cars is to vary the intensity of the weathering so that they don’t all look the same.
Some of my cars were “weathered “ with only a coat of gloss coat since they were fresh from the company paint shop.
Keep up the good work 😊
Thank you Wendell, I surely will. I intend to mix and match some other techniques, and I think you are right - getting variety will be a challenge.
Excellent tutorial!!!!!👍
Glad you liked it!
I've used those same "handles" for years. Nice job on the weathering.
Thanks Ross 👍
Came out great!!
Thank you!
Wow what looked easy. I want to try it out on one of my cheep cars. Have you thought of using a driftwood color on the tack board around the car? Like on at door. If you paint the middle of the tack board, and leave the ends that hold the board in place. I just adds just a little more to the look. Thanks for sharing.
It was pretty easy - just a little block of time for a couple nights and it was done. Agreed on the cheap cars, that is all I have dared weather thus far! I like the thought on painting the tack boards, I have thought about it but had not figured out yet how to do it. I will try this.
@@johnarthur6302 It just needs to be a flat gray. You will love the loo. On two of my cars after I did it. I took some paper and cut out a little squares and glued it on so it looked like instructions were added to the tack boards. Enjoy. Oh I really enjoy your vids. Keep them coming.
You never showed how you did the interior of the gondola. That was what I was most interested in
I Think I showed that in another video - the one with the rusty scrap load?
I've got this car in N Scale.
awesome! Did you weather it? if so, how did it turn out?
Seems like some clever young person could develop an application where users enter their industries, what they need and/or ship, and at what frequency and we could have a nation-wide interchange network. So, somebody get hot on that please.
That is a great idea!
This is great! How can I save a link to this??
Thank you. I think if you “like” the video it will be in a playlist if liked videos for you. There’s probably other ways…?
Break will on car needs to be the same color
you're right. easy enough to fix!
I dare not even think of who came up with the name of the shipper.
Try saying it three times fast
I give full credit (or blame?) to Jason the Train Freak. It is his industry =)
Good job. I like it alot. I'll send you one of mine too for free. It's for your time period....send me an email and I'll send you the kadee car
Man, that is super generous. I have not had the guts to weather a nicer car like a Kadee yet but am willing to give it a shot!
@@johnarthur6302 cool man. I have a huge collection. Even though I model southern pacific in California, i still have 1930s through 1960s cars especially kadee eastern cars. So if you want i can send you one like a florida or Georgian or something and you can ship furniture to me on my layout.