Here's an old E&C Shops boxcar that I picked up at a train show 2 years ago or so, and I've finally gotten around to doing some weathering on it. Or, I should say that I got around to putting it together and weathering it. This one is from back when having a model meant doing some assembly after purchase.
A view of the pre-assembled pieces. A few things about this one are that the metal weight was too long to fit on the bottom floor inside the boxcar so I cut it and installed it in 2 pieces and the wheels that came with it are plastic. When I clipped the brake from the sprue, it went flying off somewhere, and I've never seen it since. Oh, and the plastic body had curved or warped itself inward so the roof that was supposed to be simply press-fitted continually popped off.
So, I cut the metal weight and centered it on the floor of the car, ordered replacement wheels because I didn't have any, found a brake piece that was close enough in my random parts box, and glued the roof in place. Other than that, things went rather smoothly.
The picture's a little dark, but here's the assembled boxcar as it looked to begin with. Not much in the way of details on the doors.
The Ashley, Drew and Northern operated over 40-some miles in Arkansas, was acquired by Georgia-Pacific, so I'm assuming they hauled lumber. The pine tree logo on the sides would also be a clue to that
I had this photo filed away of a similar model done by Norm Madore to use as influence over what mine might become.
I liked that Norm's model had faded to a blue tone, so I tried to do that to mine as well. Green is made up of blue and yellow, and the yellow would fade away first leaving the bluish colour. That's how I think it would work. I don't think I quite got there, but pressed forward anyway.
I masked over the white doors.
So here's the one side after it's been beaten up a bit. Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber for the rust. It turned out darker than I think I wanted it to.
And skipping ahead now, my ADN boxcar has made it out onto the rails...
I'd kind of like to patch the reporting marks, but not sure yet which reporting marks might be appropriate for this boxcar.
Sure is one beaten-up looking boxcar as it rolls by in a train.
A look at the B-end. If I ever find the brake wheel that flew off (slim chance at best) I'll take this one off and put the right one on. I also have added the brake line to the model.
Looks like it should be in the scrap yard where the gondola in the foreground is. The car really did go from the original green to blue though. I had faded it first with the beige coloured concrete gray that I like to use, and then just a really light layer of very thin light Craftsmart blue which made all the difference.
Spotted at Door #1 at Tri-State Paper.
That's all for now. Stay warm out there.
A view of the pre-assembled pieces. A few things about this one are that the metal weight was too long to fit on the bottom floor inside the boxcar so I cut it and installed it in 2 pieces and the wheels that came with it are plastic. When I clipped the brake from the sprue, it went flying off somewhere, and I've never seen it since. Oh, and the plastic body had curved or warped itself inward so the roof that was supposed to be simply press-fitted continually popped off.
I masked over the white doors.
