The Weathering Depot

Project just started today, and progress so far. This Scale Trains car already has four different weathering mediums on it, including acrylic paint, rust texture, washes, and powder. When finished this will go up on the eBay store. Photos below of the car in the box and as of tonight:

Here’s my next project, in between working on several HOn3 cars. More photos when started. I’m going to hopefully replicate this car: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3969315

 If you haven’t visited the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley, Colorado, I highly recommend you put it on your bucket list of museums to see. Not only will you see a world class 5,000+ square foot model railroad run by volunteers, but also a lot of railroad memorabilia plus…

Another project finished! This one just went up on eBay today. One of a kind special edition car made by Rapido for the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley, Colorado. The car was weathered with six different weathering mediums. Here’s a look at the finished model:

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…

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

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

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:

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…

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!

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…

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

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…

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…

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