Sweethome Alabama

Those close up pictures are very helpful.

Wolfgang

 

Some great work. I got some ideas from your sharing. Thank you.

 

I have been messing about with some new weathering techniques on some of the freight cars for Sweethome Alabama. I has a go using oil paints, streaked with thinners on a couple of boxcars and also messed around with some home-made graffiti.










Jon

 

I've also had a go at painting some pulpwood cars, essential for modelling Alabama.







I'm not sure, but I think the pulpwood car in the RF&P paint scheme may be a 'foobie'(made-up), but it looks quite nice.

Jon

 

Excellent weathering. I especially like the SSW box cars.

 

Jon, great work as usual. :angel:

What did you use for the pulpwood? I've used cherry tree twigs.

Wolfgang

 

I concur. That SSW is awesome!!:thumbs_up::thumbs_up:

 

nice looking cars. Really like the weathering job that you did. Although for the area that you are modeling, I would go with SOU or SBD for the woodracks rather than the RF&P. As you would not likely see them in AL. Just food for thought on that.

 

I picked up 4 x 40ft pulpwood loads made from resin, at a local swapmeet. I then 'cut and pasted' them together to make 3 x 50 ft loads, adding barbeque skewers to raise some of them up to the right height and to fill the gaps caused by my terrible saw cuts.

Jon

 

I have a couple of SOU cars on order - the three cars I got were the only three in the hobby shop, and they were a lucky find on the second-hand shelf.

My original idea was to patch the two RF&P cars into CSX, but it has been difficult finding photos of the RF&P cars in any paint scheme, let alone patched.

I suppose I could repaint them to SBD, but I do like the unusual RF&P paint.

Jon

 

Understand about the woodracks. I think that I have 4 of them myself and at one time had a back order at the LHS for some. I dont even remember if I canceled that or not. But considering how hard they are too find, I agree on taking what you can get when you can.

 

I managed to get another boxcar weathered, this time an ICG boxcar, that was 'very' orange
ICG boxcar

I mixed a lighter shade of orange to cover the whole car, then rubbed off the paint over the lettering. I added the rust, dullcoated it, and finally added the patched number and graffiti, before dullcoating it again.









In the photo I was working from, I couldn't make out what the graffiti said, so I just wrote gibberish! The 'Zappa' on the reverse just happens to be what I was listening to at the time.

ICG boxcar

Now for a Family Lines boxcar.

Jon

 

I've been learning to weather a few freight cars for the new layout and decided to try out the chalk powders instead of oil paints on the latest boxcar, a patched CSX excess-height boxcar still in Family Lines paint

Family Lines boxcar







The other side (with damaged step iron). I haven't had time to do the new end numbers yet and the graffiti on this side was copied from other cars in the series.






I'm itching to do another one now...

Jon

 

Very nice Jon...What did you use to do the white fine line graffiti?I cant seem to fine anything in white with a fine tip on it.

 

A white, fine-tipped gel pen. Gel pens seem to work well on painted surfaces.

Jon

 

very nice looking cars that you have done. really like the graffiti that you have added to the cars as well.