My first attempt at weathering a box car and a Delivery truck....what do you think?

[Red Horse]

I started with a nice shiny truck that I thought would look good aged.

I added some rust using matt glue mixed with crushed brick.

Then came the body rot and damage to round it all out and make it look like it had a hard life.

Here she is, it looks much better than this pic because the flash kind of washed it out and it was my last pic before camera battery died...Sorry!

This is the finished product parked on my layout.

Now for the box car, I started with one that didn't match any of my other box cars, it was kind of an odd ball.

Then I used the glue and brick dust methiod and added some brown flat paint for a more pronounced rust look.

And finally the finished product on my layout.

hope you like the progress, and as always I love input!

 

[OzarkBelt]

i'm not much of an expert, but i'd say that you've done a really good job!! keep it up!!!

[Capt. Grimek]

Same here. Looks very nice and realistic to my eyes. I've got no layout of my own but frequent club layouts and operating round robin sessions and your work looks great compared with very experienced folks' work.
While I'm figuring out a layout/space weathering of my building kits is all I'm doing right now. It gets addictive!

[Packers#1]

Looks great.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Red Horse, I think you're doing a good job of getting this weathering stuff down. Good work.

[pcarrell]

Red Horse, I've been watching your progress over the past weeks and I must say, you're really getting this stuff.  This is your best effort to date!  The truck shows not just basic weathering, but you're gone the extra mile to add  structural weathering by adding dents and such.  The boxcar also shows that you've been advancing your skills well beyond your earlier efforts.  Also, it's evident from the pics that you've been working on the layout scenery as a whole too!  Keep pushing that envelope man!

[Trax21]

Looks really good to me

[Packers#1]

You set your learning curve at steep, and you rose to the challenge. I've had a few years to figure out skills, and I'm finally catching on (yes, i have. I started at either 9 or 10 with a REAL layout, even earlier withg HO scale).

[tomkat-13]

The weathering a +.......put different tires & wheels on truck.....they look too modern

[AltoonaRailroader]

I'd have to say that truck might be a bit much and I agree, try to find some other wheels for it. BUT!!! The boxcar looks REALLY good! You even remembered the wheels and trucks. Which is something I'm sure I'll over look when I try this. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.

 

[Driline]

I don't think I would weather any of your layout. It doesn't fit the mood that I assumed you were trying to convey. I thought you wanted to stay more "toy like" and keep it fun for the kids. Weathering kind of blurs that line between toylike and prototypical. I don't think you can have both, and make it believable. Like I said in an earlier post, my uncle has a HUGE lionel layout that he built which is very toylike and colorful. It represents Christmas in 1955. Nothing is weathered, but the layout is great because that is the "mood" he is setting. Its a blast to run and fun to look at. But no way is it "prototypical" because that is not what it is meant to be.

Just my

[Red Horse]

Thanks for the honest input everyone!

The suggestions about changing the trucks tires is a good one.

Driline , I had to buy the Grand sons an HO set and send it home with them and some of the other stuff that I built for them, My Son in Law said that they were bugging him non stop about comming to play with my train and I'm not ready for this one to be running, sooooo, it looks like I'll have one here for me (what a shame) and one in their home for them.

Now that I'm building one here for myself I've picked the Santa Fe line to do and have been doing much reasearch on the Santa Fe lines that they ran, the scenery that could be found along their routes (well other than the military stuff) and their old Depots and so on, I want to have real road numbers on the locos and cars, so I guess in the end I want the set here to be more realistic, after seeing the work being done here by members I prefer a more realistic layout for my home.

I don't know why I though a 6 and 8 year old would be patient while I worked on a layout for them....what was I thinking?

But they are loving it and they are taking good care of it, so I guess we all got what we wanted.

Happy Rails my Friends.

Jess red Horse.

[Driline]

Oh I see. Different layout completely. Well forget what I said LOL.