The Weathering Depot

Currently underway is work on five models including the first one, which is this Atlas Trainman series bulkhead flat. Almost finished, this car has acrylic paints, brown wash, rust texture, and five colors of pigments, four alone on the deck. Next up is probably one of two autoracks ….

I have today upgraded the weathering on my Rapido hopper I currently have up for sale on eBay by adding rust to the roof and sides:

This Walther’s car is now finished and in service on the layout. It was finished with black grey and brown acrylics plus Monroe Models black soot powder finished with engine oil by MiG ammo for the spillage around the dome:

Just arrived today to be weathered when possible to go into service on the layout is this Walther’s car:

Just put up on eBay this evening is this Athearn PS 50’ ft boxcar. This is a new in the box model, originally a South Branch Valley car relettered for BKTY and weathered with six different weathering mediums…..

More commission work has arrived, five cars from one modeler and ten cars from another modeler! Always looking for weathering work to do, and nothing satisfies me more than helping a modeler and making them happy with a weathered model…

The Tangent PRR car is now finished and in service on the layout! This guy was completed with four colors of acrylic paint, Pan pastels, two colors of pigments and Vallejo rust texture. Photos below of the finished product:

Here is the current project I’m working on instead of the BAR boxcar posted previously. I had a short break in between commission work, so decided to whip this guy out pretty quick. This is one of the Tangent X58 boxcars that are now pretty scarce, especially this PRR scheme.…

This week’s photos shows the entire current layout, the Cincinnati Terminal subdivision. Shows what a modeler can do with limited space on a shelf layout, as my layout is only 2’ ft wide by 8’ ft long! You really don’t need a basement size double deck layout to have fun..,,

Next project for eBay is this ExactRail PS BAR 50’ boxcar:

A PC geep and cabin works the mine in the hamlet of Hitop, West Virginia, in another view from the old Hitop Branch layout….

I’ve finished this car I posted on earlier and will be on eBay on Friday. The other side of the car I’ve left fairly clean I guess you’d say ( not as grimy as the other side of the prototype) , but of course still faded. The reweigh decal says…

After making a trip to seven different cities around the country my new Walther’s PC NW2 has finally arrived, has been programmed and weathered, and now is seeing action on the layout! Before and after photos of weathering below:

I’ve started on the next project for eBay, this Moloco 50’ Wabash insulated boxcar. I’m trying to replicate the prototype photo shown. So far I think it’s a fairly good representation. More photos when the car is finished:

In this post I’ll talk about what it took to modify the two modules on the current layout. The longest module is part of the previous Nitro, West Virginia module where tracks went into the chemical plant, scrapyard, and bakery. The shortest module was on the other side of the…