The Weathering Depot

Here I’ve started on the Rapido boxcar. So far I’ve applied acrylic paint to dirty up the car a bit, applied several mediums to the doors then took most back off leaving this effect, and applied a dirt colored powder down the sides. Here is how the car looked again out of the box and… Continue reading

At the recent Colorado Railroad Prototype Meet I purchased quite a few new cars to weather up and put on ebay. Here they are: Continue reading

Here is another recent project that is now finished. Note the built up grime on the car sides and underside: Continue reading

This guy is now finished, well, almost! After applying the decals, I’ll be lightly spraying a dirt color over the car plus a little light gray over the frame sill, then a final seal. Here’s the car this morning: Continue reading

Onward to the next project. This one is an MDC gondola that started out bright yellow lettered for Illinois Terminal. This car already has three different weathering mediums applied, plus I’ve changed out the trucks and wheels, replacing the wheels with Intermountain semi scale wheels. Below are several photos of the project in progress. Still… Continue reading

Below is a photo of the now finished CSX boxcar,which will also go with me to the show at the end of the month.  If the car doesn’t sell, it will go up on eBay. Also a photo of how the car started out of the box! Continue reading

Although I posted this on the layout website, I thought I’d share this here on The Weathering Depot site as well. Yesterday I was able to purchase two beautiful photo backdrops made by Realistic Backgrounds. These were installed yesterday directly to the plain white wall behind the layout with Velcro strips and I must say… Continue reading

Please join me over at my fairly new website strictly for my modular layout! I’ll from here forward post my weathering projects here on The Weathering Depot website and post news and photos about my layout over at: https://cincinnatiterminalsub.blogspot.com/?m=0 Continue reading

Here is the hew project just started, this one is of course an HO scale Atlas 50’ FMC boxcar lettered for CSX. Below is how the car started out of the box: I already have the underside done with a brown/grimy black paint plus a wash added then Pan Pastel dirt color added while wet… Continue reading

Here’s a quick side project I started on to weather up this forgotten piece of rolling stock soon to go on eBay. This is an older Accurail car I’ve had for some time with very limited weathering. I decided to enhance the weathering by doing the car ends, underside, and adding rust and dirt to… Continue reading

Some other photos from switching operations the past several days…. Continue reading

My modules are now wired up and running after the expertise of Tom C who wired the original layout. Trains are already running great on the modules! Here are some photos of switching operations yesterday, enjoy! Continue reading

While off this week I was able to finish another model to go up on my eBay store. This car as you can see is an HO scale Walther’s Mainline series 50’ ACF Railbox car. Photo below shows it new in box: The car actually took two weeks to complete. Without going into too much… Continue reading

I didn’t like the sudden transition to the Arizona Rock & Mineral limestone ballast on the module, so I spent the morning painting over it to try to match their yard mix ballast on the rest of the modules, then weathered a bit of it per a video I came across on YouTube. Used a… Continue reading

I’m currently on the last car for this current friend/client, a local modeler who models current day operations in California. This CSX hopper started out as shown below and was asked to be heavily weathered but with all the lettering and numbers visible. To do this I’ve simply taped it off to show it as… Continue reading