B&O 493027 Auto Parts Box

Last week I posted about starting weathering on three freight cars.  Well, here's one of them all finished up after about 9 or 10 hours actual working time.

This Thrall 86 foot Auto-Parts boxcar is a Class One Model Works model.

This is the Class One promotional photo (different car number than mine) from their site, since I forgot to take a "before" picture before I started weathering.  I think that these have become a little bit hard to find now, so I'm glad to have gotten mine when I did.

So here's some looks at mine all finished up:

We can see a couple of small darker paint patches down low in the middle section, and one at the top as well.  Then the boxcar's blue colour was faded overall with a spray of a beige tone.  I prefer to use that rather than an actual white for paint fading.

I further faded just one door to suggest that maybe the railroad replaced that one for some reason. Also, on all the other doors I very lightly sprayed the top panel with a red primer colour to maybe imply that the original blue was fading away.

The bottom sill is darkened using black Panel Line, which I brushed on, waited a minute or two and then wiped away.  I did the same around the perimeters of all of the doors as well just to highlight the seams. 

And the other side of B&O 493027 is done the same way, but also features a bunch of graffiti along the lower areas. I know not everybody likes or wants to see graffiti, but it's the modern thing now, so I usually put some on one side. These are all decals made by a variety of manufacturers.  I sprayed a few light layers of Roof Brown along the bottom portions to flatten down the graffiti, adding some subtle weathering.

Also, the rust streaking is done with three colours this time.  I used Raw Sienna first, then Burnt Sienna over that, and just a bit of Burnt Umber at the top of the streaking.  The Raw Sienna is a more yellow colour, which shows up better against the blue of the boxcar.

And some views of B&O 493027 from out on the railroad:

To try to show some aging on the roof, I sprayed the whole roof with a red primer colour.  Then sprayed overtop of that with B&O Blue.  Once that had all dried overnight, I sanded the roof panels with 600 grit sandpaper to expose some of that primer.

Off-spot during some switching

This view shows the brake end, which has collected some grime

Second from the end of a parts train.

And a look at the B&O parts car spotted at the plant for the first time.  This one makes a real nice addition to the layout.

And that's about it for now.  Have a good week.  Happy October everybody.