The Weathering Depot

In this post I’ll show an older car I’ve had for some years on the old layout that I decided to rework and weather, then keep in the fleet. This car I believe is an older Roundhouse model with a tie load. This car started out as shown below: First…

Just a quick note on my Facebook page! The page is the same name as the website: The Weathering Depot. I now have just under 2,200 followers and over 2,000 likes. If you’re online, please be sure to check it out!

Sorry I haven’t posted here lately, as I’ve been busy with my eBay store, my Facebook page by the same name, and actually a new career that takes up quite a bit of my time! Recently I finished up a project that immediately sold on my eBay store, along with…

Again today I’m posting more details I’ve added to the modules since I last posted about these. Eventually as mentioned before, my goal is to make these modules look like a gritty, grimy industrial area you’d find on Penn Central in the seventies. Details definitely make a layout, as much…

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…

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:

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!

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…

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…

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…

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:

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…

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…

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…

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…