To borrow a line from Aggro:You Might Need A Tetanus Shot Just From Looking at It! My Rusty RailBox!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

Nice. [:)] M'kay, If you'd like to advance your skills head over to http://www.modeltrainsweathered.com/forum/

Divizio's forum is a bomb concentration of weathering enthusiast.

PS--Do you have photos of the prototype you copied from?

Yeah, Mellow Mike gave me the link, so I joined and have since been an annoyance to the whole community over there![:D] Okay, actually I've kept quiet and read for the most part, only asking a few questions and commenting on weathering jobs of fellow members.

I had the photos, but they have gotten lost in the jumble of a mess of my home, as we are redoing the dining room. If I stumble upon them, and if I can get my photo scanner to work, then I will share them with you all. I would take a couple more pics, but as I mentioned, three of them, including the main one I was modeling, are probably gone to scarap. The only one that remains is an old FGE "Solid Gold" reefer, and all I was copying off of it was the rust color. The rest of the cars were box cars, just like the RailBox.


uspscsx

[AggroJones]

Nice. [:)] M'kay, If you'd like to advance your skills head over to http://www.modeltrainsweathered.com/forum/

Divizio's forum is a bomb concentration of weathering enthusiast.

PS--Do you have photos of the prototype you copied from?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by uspscsx

QUOTE: Originally posted by 06archerd

seaboard System, thats the one

You got it!

Here's the before pic:


Before..


After

BMTRAINS:
SBD, actually, good guess though.

[NZRMac]

At least your out there doing it dude!! I'm to chicken so far.

Ken.

[Anonymous]

Well, two factors are:
1, I'm a rookie at weathering.
2, I kinda got the look I wanted, and it looks much better in person. But nothing close to Aggro.

Bob, you make a good point, but right now I'm still in the stages of "practice", even though I have sold a car on eBay already. So anything I can get that looks half-way realistic to me, works for now.


uspscsx

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry, but I really don't see any weathering here. It looks like the car was just painted another brownish/rust color. The AggroJones cars, now they look weathered!

Whatever floats your boat I guess.

Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 06archerd

seaboard System, thats the one

You got it!

Here's the before pic:


Before..


After

[TrainFreak409]

CSX?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 06archerd

Southern!

Not even close! But good try..

uspscsx

[Anonymous]

seaboard System, thats the one

[Anonymous]

Southern!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409

Seaboard Air Lines?

Soooo close.

uspscsx

[TrainFreak409]

Seaboard Air Lines?

[Anonymous]

No, not Family Lines. You're getting awfully close, though.


uspscsx

[JohnT14808]

For a tool shed, I can just envision the diorama and detailed scene that could be a really great spot on any layout. Nice work!

[Anonymous]

Some of the pictures it looks like rust others it looks like clay. Probally the lighting. Good job though.

[DrummingTrainfan]

Is it the "Family Lines"?

[Anonymous]

Scott: Seaboard Coast Line? Close, but no.
D.T.: Santa Fe? No.

uspscsx

[Javern]

a most stunning example of hydrated ferric oxidation

[DrummingTrainfan]

I vote Santa FE. As a railcar that is overedone...but as a tool shed that looks fine. Nice work [bow]

[ProtoWeathering]

That's not rust, that's mud.

Sorry, but it just looks muddy.

I'd take some alcohol and a bunch of Q-tips and start wiping it down. Sometimes cleaning up a mistake creates a better looking model. You may be surprised with the results.

Another trick is to wet a broad brush with Microsol (blue) and draw it down the sides, you just might be surprised.

[TrainFreak409]

I'm going for the bonus point here. In the second picture, you can faintly make out "S B..."

Was it patched for Seaboard Coast Line?

Great weathering job there. Should make a great lineside tool shed.[tup]

[Anonymous]

i like it good job, uspscsx!

[ereimer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by uspscsx

QUOTE: Originally posted by Stuckarmchairing

Good point, but those cars would wear a MOW designation. I'm not bashing your work at all my man, its good stuff, just some creative critistism.

Yeah, I understand. It's late here, I'm tired, but I cannot sleep. If I flame, blame it on little sleep.

uspscsx[|)]

rather than flame go out and grab a photo of the prototype , show all these non-believers that this is an accurate model [:)]

[dehusman]

It doesn't look rusted as much as muddy, maybe its the lighting.

Dave H.

[Anonymous]

I think its cool. I saw a old UP or SP ( couldnt read it) box car sitting next to the siding near green valley in AZ. It looked real nostalgic, I wished I grabbed a pic. Yours will have to suffice till i get a cam.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Stuckarmchairing

Good point, but those cars would wear a MOW designation. I'm not bashing your work at all my man, its good stuff, just some creative critistism.

Yeah, I understand. It's late here, I'm tired, but I cannot sleep. If I flame, blame it on little sleep.

uspscsx[|)]

[Anonymous]

Good point, but those cars would wear a MOW designation. I'm not bashing your work at all my man, its good stuff, just some creative critistism.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Stuckarmchairing

Hate to break it to ya but If a cars reporting marks are not visable and clear to a point they are washed off around the reporting marks, by the switch crew, how are they supposed to spot the car if its just a giant box covered in some thick brown paint? I've seen some dirty railboxes but none that you couldnt see the RM's on.

I know that, but if you read this: "This was before I decided to turn it into a non-rolling tool car for my siding, based on cars sitting in the local yard."

A: I based it off prototypes!
B: I understand about that, but it is going to sit around a siding on my layout, serving as a tool car for the MOW crews. There were 4 of these in my yard up until a month ago, when they scrapped 3 of them. I model 2000, they've been there, in all their rusty spledor, since '98.
C: Switch crew? If they don't move, how can they be switched?

uspscsx