<font color="336633">Well my first finished "proto modeled" Car is now finished, it was bashed from an Intermountian 50' PS-1 Boxcar, it has Athearn genesis trucks fitted and scale couplers. It is now as close as I can get it model of a ex CB&Q 50'7" Boxcar built in their Havelock shops in 1963 BN series 234400-234999 Well its finished but I still have no where to run it, so back in its box.......... </font>
Nice work Matt! Thats a sweeeeeeeeeet lookin' boxcar... I'm sure theirs a few hours tied up in getting it finished! The weathering looks superb as well... I take it as someone posted, done with an airbrush ?? Sure looks good! Keep up the great work!
I saw Matt using chalks to weather the car, meticulously copying photographs of the real thing. Not sure if he also used the airbrush though. He seems proud of the result
Don't feel bad. Am in the same situation, as I slowly finish the new basement/empire area. When your track is laid, the rolling stock will all ready to start rolling away the miles of revenue! Nice job! boxcab E50
<font color="336633">Thanks everyone I first flat varnished it then used chalks, fot the rusty curved scrape on the door i used wet chalks, just dipped a small brush in water and used it like paint. I could have left it as a PS-1 boxcar, but I thought it would be more intresting as a Havelock one. I have a couple more boxcars in the pipeline awaiting some new ladders to arrive. You may have noticed that it has no stirups on it, I have not attached these yet as I have used DA ones and these will only get broken off in the box, so I have drilled the holes for them to be fitted at a later time....... unless I lose them first! </font>
you must show some love for the couplers......... Not trying to be a smarta$$, believe me i am envious to the hilt. I just bought a local stores whole supply of blairline "graffiti decals", in an attempt to have more prototypical cars. Yet again everything into a box, to go to okinawa. Soon though there will be a ROCK ISLAND influence in the ORIENT THE ROCK
