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Frequent poster 918 posts Yannis Frequent poster 918 posts
Yannis

Hi all,

I have been working recently on a boxcar project which just got finished and took its place on the layout today. It started off as a Kadee boxcar factory painted with various stencils/diagrams. The car was disassembled to put it back into kit form (time lost...). Paint was removed with lots of sanding at parts in order to get rid of the (pad-printed?) diagrams/stencils. Subsequently it was painted using Vallejo colors based on recipes out of MRH's excellent acrylic color guide.

Roof was weathered with a few layers of the salt weathering technique in a specific iteration to replicate heavy paint peeling off the galvanized roof based on prototype photos. The rest of the car was weathered using enamels and oils. The decals used were by Microscale and apart from the FRISCO decals, data from various ATSF/NP sets were also used in order to obtain the correct data for this particular car. The ACI labels are from Highball graphics, courtesy of fellow forum member Deemiorgos (thanks Dee!) . Clear coats used involved Tamiya clear gloss and Winsor & Newton clear matt varnish.

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.  Here is the finished car and more photos follow in the next posts.

Yannis

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Yannis Frequent poster 918 posts
Yannis

Start of the project

In factory form...

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Sides painted/gloss-coated

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Roof before painting/weathering

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Continued in the next post...

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Yannis Frequent poster 918 posts
Yannis

Weathering & Finish

Roof weathered, single layer yet...

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More weathering layers added onto the roof (dust/grime layers). Finished boxcar on a siding opposite a warehouse.

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Side view at the same scene

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And a photo at another scene on the layout...

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Rick Sutton Prolific poster 4,355 posts
Rick Sutton

Yannis

That looks like the real deal! Best use of salt weathering I have ever seen. Could you add some further detail to your process?

 What's the deal on that original paint job? 

Really, really superb!
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Yannis Frequent poster 918 posts
Yannis

Thank you Rick!

I really appreciate the kind compliments! The Factory paint was some sort of special car with diagrams that i got at some point when (if i remember correctly) i wanted something undecorated and this was the closest thing to it.

I am glad you liked the salt-weathering results, it was a small project for something much bigger, hopefully soon, so stay tuned.

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blindog10 Prolific poster 3,306 posts
blindog10

Looks good

Looking foward to your take on the Southern PS-1s.

Scott Chatfield
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Deemiorgos Super User 7,332 posts
Deemiorgos

Awesome. Thank you for

Awesome. Thank you for sharing. 
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Yannis Frequent poster 918 posts
Yannis

Thank you Scott!

Looking forward to them as well, tempted to go for a 3rd one with silver doors, (waiting on decals here, from what i see the SOU roofs did weather like this Frisco car, so at least one of my SOU cars, with older-style logo, will look like this Frisco one).

Thanks Dee!

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kevinn Regular poster 283 posts
kevinn

Very nice

That is one fine looking boxcar Yannis.
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Modeltruckshop Prolific poster 1,050 posts
Modeltruckshop

As a Frisco fan

that brings a smile.  Nice work Yannis!!
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Michael Whiteman Frequent poster 519 posts
Michael Whiteman

Fantastic weathering

especially on the roof.  I'm sure if you had called Kadee  they would have sent you all the pieces for this car unpainted.  The people there are extremely accommodating.  When I lived near I would purchase the frame and all the brake rigging to use under Athern Blue Box cars.

 
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blindog10 Prolific poster 3,306 posts
blindog10

Kadee undecorated kits

Kadee offers most of their boxcar variations as kits.  I've built one and have a couple others on hand.  And yes, they'll sell you any of the parts.  All American made too.

Scott Chatfield
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Deemiorgos Super User 7,332 posts
Deemiorgos

@Scott, I love Kadee cars;

@Scott,

I love Kadee cars; wish they made some Canadian box cars.

Good to know about them selling parts.
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Yannis Frequent poster 918 posts
Yannis

Thank you all!

Thanks Kevinn, Modeltruckshop and Michael!

Thank you very much for mentioning the kits, in fact I already have a few Kadee kits (the SOU cars i was mentioning to Scott, as well as some other RBL projects) and several parts (doors, roofwalks, ladders etc...), they are probably one of my favorite if not the most favorite cars. I got the diagram car back at the time due to availability/price/expectations but since then i moved to kits/undecorated (and even some RTR that was in the roadname i wanted).

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