Too much for my personal taste, however, very realistic.
Good thing we don't all like the same things or all our layouts would look alike.
Keep up the good work.
Have fun,
Richard
Excellent work! I've seen boxcars cars in this condition a number of times. Take a photo of this outdoors at an upward angle and you'll fool a lot of people into thinking it's the prototype.
Just my opinion: For the purposes of "Selective Compression" it's good to keep a realistic balance of weathering. A mix of cars with light to medium weathering and a few "Penn Central-style" rust buckets within a general freight car fleet (boxes, hoppers, reefers, flats, etc,.).
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Looking good.
Great job I like it!! How'd ya do it?
Dean
30 years 1:1 Canadian Pacific.....now switching in HO
The rust spots look really good to me. What are you using, oil paints? Perhaps the main paint surfaces could be a bit more grimy, the paint looks almost too clean for the rust.
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Any chance you could talk about how you went about it? It looks like you maybe put on some darker brown areas then used some lighter rust colors around them?
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Wow at first I thought it was the real deal . Which car manufacture are you using ?
Excellent, very realistic, strange to the naysayers, all railroad equipment does NOT look like it just came from the factory, and don't a lot of MR's strive for protoptypical realism, then weathering would be at the top of prototypical priorities.
I must add the best tip for weathering is: M O D E R A T I O N
Well done! I'd say you have the hang of it. I agree, though, that the upper left face that we see needs more dulling to the blue paint. The car's lower door sill is quite a bit more deteriorated than the rest of the car, probably a bit too much. But your rust is really good.
Crandell
Nicely done but why two posts??
Joe
One the best I have seen in awhile.. a little heavy but not too over the top.
Excellent job! Looks great!
JoeinPANicely done but why two posts?? Joe
The car is too new for my era, but the weathering is just fantastic.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
railcarbuilder JoeinPA: Nicely done but why two posts?? Joe I really dont know how that happen? sorry for your inconvenience. =)
JoeinPA: Nicely done but why two posts?? Joe
I really dont know how that happen? sorry for your inconvenience. =)
No inconvenience. Just wondering if the forum gremlins were at work.
Nicely done, rivaling what I've seen from some of the "pros". I'm always amused by the too heavy comments. A few weeks ago there was a string of cylindrical covered hoppers in the UP yard at Grand Junction. Many were completely covered with surface rust on the sides.
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John
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Well...........aren't you the "clever" fellow, earning your salary already eh? ;-]
Mark
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Forty Niner jwhitten: Moderator's Note: There were two separate threads going-- one was a duplicate of the other. Both had replies so I merged them together into one thread. John Well...........aren't you the "clever" fellow, earning your salary already eh? ;-] Mark WGAS
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With any luck they'll double it!
Great work! VERY realistic. Rust on!!!
railcarbuilder
You got a layout big enough to handle all that?
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