GTW boxcar weathering job

Here is a detail of what I did:

Trucks:
airbrushed sideframe with diluted grimmy black then airbrushed with diluted roofbrown for rust.
gearbox and couplers: diluted roofbrown
wheels: painted engine black

Boxcar:
1)Wash grimmy black
2) airbrushed diluted overall coat of same color as the car ( GTW blue )
3) I forgot this important step sorry
Used 3 oil paints for the rust patches and streaks. Burnt umber, burnt sienna and raw umber.
When the oil paint was completely dried ( 1 week, that's a long time ) I slightly sanded the rust patches and streaks with some #1500 sanding paper . It is necessary because oil paint is thick. That problem is even more obvious in N scale

4) drybrushed tamiya ( using a slotted piece of styrene ) brown on car's seams.
5) airspray diluted engine black on ends and bottom of doors
6) airbrushed L&N gray on bottom of car and roof edges.

Jacques

 

B. Turkey, not too bad.

But here are a couple of suggestions:

more dust along the sills
keep the rust along the seams
get rid of the big paint "splotches"

the faded look is good, as are the trucks

of course this'd all look better on a better car

 

Up here in Canada we actually have cars in service that look like that lol ... seriously ... no jokes ... actually there is a covered hopper parked in the Valleyfield industrial Park and a CN boxcar that look like that ... rust and all !
Cheers
Adam

 

Thanks Matthew and Adams for taking some of your valuable time to reply.
As suggested by Matthew I realize that I should concentrate the rust where it belongs: the seams, rust streaks where the doors open.
I must admit that I was fascinated by that old banged and rusted D&H boxcar:

Jacques

 

Nice weathering job..I see cars come thru here on CSX that look just about like yours...Jerry

 

Nice job and thanks for the description of how you did it!

I'm interested in the slotted piece of styrene. How do you use that?

 

Thanks Jerry ( OC Engineer JD ) , Jerry ( Cox 1947 ) and jagged ben for taking some of your valuable time to reply.

Please note, I added the important step 3 ( oil paints rust ) to the procedure.
When I tackled that project I wanted to practice the various weathering techniques , and not necessarily copy exactly a prototype boxcar from a picture. I just wanted my weathered boxcar to be plausible. I think ( at least your comments give me that feeling ) that I succeeded.

To jagged ben, about the piece of styrene. I use it as a mask to apply some acrylic dry brushing on the seams of the lateral panels. ( welds or rivets ).
The slot with is about 1mm ( 0.04 " for our friends south of the border ) .
Here is the picture.

Jacques

 

Aha, thanks! I feel like I should have thought of that, but was thinking of something rather different.

I have a lot of experience masking larger objects for painting, but it is never quite obvious how to translate the techniques to small scale work.

 

Turkey thats a neet little tool..I am gonna make me one ...Thanks...Jerry

 

I liked your weathering job; and really appreciated the "How to". The masking tool is slick I never thought of that, but sure will be making one. Thanks for sharing

 

Me too, that little piece of styrene is BRILLIANT. Never thought of that.

 

LOOKS FABULOUS...NICE TECHNIQUES!

 

Thanks Jerry, subwayaz, campp and MOPACJAY for taking some of your valuable time to reply and thanks for the encouragement .
To be honest, I picked the styrene mask idea from a Kalmbach book.
I even see one modeler ( DoctorWayne ) who made a ( HO ) mask, with 8 slots , that covers the entire side of the boxcar.

Jacques