The Weathering Depot

The P&LE boxcar is now finished as well. This car was done by first spraying a light coat of green that matched the car to lighten the car a bit and take away some of the shine this Athearn car had out of the box. The next step was several brown color washes to dirty… Continue reading

This car actually is finished as well, but for lack of time at the moment I’ll simply post a photo of this project car. This car as finished will also go up on my eBay store this weekend. Story will follow how I did this one: Continue reading

The AN boxcar I was working on is now finished with a photo below plus a photo of the prototype: This one will go up on my eBay store this weekend! Continue reading

A recent car for my fleet was completed over the holiday break, this one an ExactRail 50’ PC&F single door boxcar lettered for Western Pacific. Shown below is the car new in box purchased off eBay: I decided to purchase and keep this car as the stencil on the side says when empty return to… Continue reading

I’m almost finished with this Walther’s 50’ ACF boxcar lettered for Apalachicola Northern. I decided to make this a former AN car, now TASD 9118 which I had a photo of shown here, as well as the AN car new in box: I achieved the dirty orange color with rust and brown washes that had… Continue reading

Sorry for the lack of posting recently but I took a break during the holidays. Now back at it with these updates. I’ve been busy at work on the second module. First off, I ordered two pre-built and weathered Walther’s buildings, their McGraw Oil dealer to be used as a fuel and gasoline dealer, and… Continue reading

Here is a recent addition to my fleet, purchased off eBay. This car in my opinion is a nicely weathered car. Below are two photos: Continue reading

Back from taking a break, today I’m covering the addition of another small module. This module was the smallest module on my original layout, measuring 2ft wide by about 3 ft long. I didn’t have as much room as I thought between the first module and our closet so I had to turn the new… Continue reading

I’ve just completed another project, this one an Athearn Genesis “primed for grime” Golden West Service boxcar. This guy took about a week to complete. The car has the usual underside weathering plus several layers of weathering on the sides and ends. I used washes, powders, acrylic paint, and rust texture on this model. Photos… Continue reading

Coming soon to the “new” layout is another module section I had from the old layout, a 2×2 ft extension. This small module section had the mainline from Dickinson yard coming through it, plus a siding into Electro-Met, a company in Alloy, WV. These tracks on the 2 ft module should connect with the current… Continue reading

I recently was given two HO scale cars to do for a local modeler. This client models modern day, which means plenty of rust and grime on an older boxcar and plenty of graffiti. The second car I was asked to weather is a Cargill hopper. This modeler requested plenty of grime and graffiti on… Continue reading

Here’s a quick little project I was able to do in one day, in between projects for clients. This Railbox car had been lightly weathered previously. This go round I simply applied a brown wash to the sides and while still wet, lightly dabbed some dirt colored powder onto the sides then evenly spread it… Continue reading

Today I thought I’d share a few photos of the module as it looks today. Tomorrow I have a package of Bachmann maintenance crew coming to add to the same figures already placed in Allied Chemical. Photos are coming once these additional figures are added. In the meantime a few more weeds have been added… Continue reading

A bit more weathering done on the module the last few days. Not only did I paint and weather the first set of four tanks posted previously, but I also finally covered up the fake brown plastic base they sit on. What I did was paint the base with white glue, then applied dirt from… Continue reading

Details definitely make a layout. Details set the tone and era for a layout. Details can create separate little scenes on a layout. That’s my intention with this module. It definitely isn’t much of a model railroad, but one must make do with what space you have. This past week I’ve been finding more details… Continue reading