Last time, in my "This and That" post, I mentioned that I thought I had a "before" picture of the boxcar I was in the process of re-painting. Well, I found that picture this week, still in the camera, as I had somehow overlooked downloading it over to the computer.
This previous rendition was from back when the JSSX upper management (that's me) thought they could or should develop their own roster of rail cars.
I stripped off most of that black paint job, patches and lettering, and then primered and re-painted the boxcar.
The paint is a blend of Craftsmart Golden Brown and Craftsmart Espresso craft paints.
I was trying my best to match that faded brown colour of the boxcar in this old photo that I took at Sarnia many years ago.
I think that I got pretty close to the shade I was after.
So with the basic painting done, time to move on to the fun of cutting out and applying decals. Now, I'm not sure that CN actually had any 8-door 86 footers in the brown paint, but regardless, they're about to have one on the layout here.
The white area at the ends of the boxcar is white trim film cut to be a scale 2 feet high and 12 feet long to wrap around the sides about a foot or so. Both pieces slipped right into into place surprisingly easily.
The decals I've used on this boxcar are a set that I had custom printed 2 years ago by PDC Decals, as well as from a Microscale stencil lettering set for the ends, and an old Herald King set that I used for the large CN noodle logo.
The decals aren't all on the car just yet, as I'm still working on the reporting marks at the top of the ends of the boxcar. Those are taking longer than I had hoped, as the numbers are soooo small and difficult to keep straight. I only do a couple of numbers or letters at a time on the ends.
That's as far as I've gotten on this project at least so far anyway. Maybe more next time.
Have a happy holiday weekend everyone.
No comments:
Post a Comment