86 Foot Boxcar Weathered

I'd started to give this BlueBox 86 footer some time on the layout, but didn't really think much of the fresh and clean look of it so it landed on the bench for 2 or 3 days for a little weathering. This took me about 3 - 4 hours, done over the course of 3 days.This is one that I re-painted and lettered last year

And so here is a full side view as the parts car looks now, weathered.Posed here off-spot on a spur next door to my parts plant.

I sprayed the boxcar with my normal thinned Concrete Gray through the airbrush to get a light fade to the overall paint. (I like this picture)

Same location, but a look from the other end. The rust and it's streaking are done as usual with Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber acrylic artist paints. Smoke Box Graphics reflective stripes added as well.

And knowing how I like the 86 foot boxcars, my friend Chuck in the Chicago area took it upon himself to send me a boxcar that he feels no longer fits in with his collection.  Chuck told me that he had painted and lettered this Athearn boxcar some twenty years ago or so.

Have a look:

Nice that the former Conrail boxcar has been re-lettered to NYC.  Thank you Chuck !

The Information Technology team (me) here at jssxrailway has added a new blog to the sidebar so that we can now connect really easily to The Hills Line blog which belongs to James McNab.  Looks like a great layout and really nicely composed blog.  Here's the introduction to it: 

The Hills Line is an eight-mile industrial spur of the Iowa Interstate Railroad serving the eastern Iowa towns of Iowa City and Hills. This HO Scale version replicates the practices, policies, and procedures found on the prototype to provide guests and operators a flavor of real-life railroading.

Click on the link in the sidebar to go directly to the Hills Line blog.

Happy Modeling everybody.  Have a good week.