Berlin Mills Boxcar

Last week's post I referred to weathering and patching a GONX gondola to an HPJX gondola.  I didn't get to that project yet, but did get a start on a Berlin Mills PC&F 5241 cu.ft. boxcar I bought from Rapido a couple of months ago. It's certainly not finished yet, but weathering on one side is complete so I thought I'd show that progress.This is the boxcar as new and just out of the box

Boxcar after fading with thinned acrylic Concrete Gray sprayed through the airbrush. With the paint cup on the airbrush filled about halfway with water, I added and mixed in 2 drops of the paint.  I sprayed each side of the boxcar with about 6 layers of the mixture.

I then sprayed the whole car with Testors Dullcote to seal in fade layers before spending the next hour or two adding the rusty and grimy weathering.

So now that nice shiny boxcar looks like this.

And here's a look at it and the stuff I used to get it this way.

Left to right we have: Pan Pastel Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber  powders, Winsor & Newton acrylic Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber paints, Tamiya Panel Line Black, Folk Art Barn Wood acrylic, and 2 fine tip brushes and one flat brush.

I expect to be able to get more accomplished on this freight car in the coming week.

I had a birthday on Wednesday, and my late sister's would have been today (Friday).  Here's the two engines together that I've numbered with our birthdates.

Side by side in front of the maintenance building at the JSSX.

And the two on a different day working along the shortline.

That's it for now.  Have a good week.