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| IMRC's WWII Emergency Boxcar lettered for Santa Fe Bx38 class. |
Prototype Weathering Reference
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| ATSF 213481, a Bx12 class boxcar as an example of weathering on Santa Fe boxcars, circa 1957. Tim Logan collection |
While I don't have a prototype photo for the War Emergency car, and I don't have a resin Bx12 class car, which are really cool with the raised roofs. Instead in this post I'll be experimenting with my acrylic weathering and Prisma Pencil weathering on.
Starting Point
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| Unweathered IMRC WWII Emergency Boxcar design, ATSF 129782, Bx38. |
All the cars on my layout get at least a bit of weathering, so this car which is about 5-8 years old during my 1949-1954 era layout, so would be starting to show some weathering.
Weathering Process
Let's first look at the weathering materials that I will be using.
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| PrismaColor pencil set, Michael's art supply had single pencils as well. |
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| Apple Barrel acrylic 'craft' paints from Walmart. |
Applying Weathering to the Model
I started with some light pencil experimenting on the Bx38. Fairly soon, I wanted to apply the general color adjustment with the acrylic paint. I used Pavement and choice of a couple of the medium-dark brown to tone down the paint on the car generally. Territorial Beige is used to apply the 'dust' effects along the lower part of the car.
Several passes with brown pencils and some boards picked out for gray pencils to show aged boards. The Apple Barrel paint helped give a bit of extra 'tooth' for the pencils to adhere to the model.
Completed pencil only weathering experiment. I think it's a little too contrasty, so I knock down the colors a bit with some Apple Barrel acrylic wash.
Trucks weathered with acrylic paint and Pavement on the wheel faces.
Acrylic weathering finished. Time for a little more pencil work.
I decided to only apply the extra pencil work to the right side of the car. The left side at this point stopped with the 1st acrylic overcoat.
Underframe weathered with dirty brown-pavement color.
At this point I sealed the pencil work with a coat of Dullcote. I may do another very thin wash to blend the colors again slightly.
Roof Weathering (Edit)
I did some dabbling weathering on the roof with applications of Dark Gray, Pavement, some selected brown/rust colors and a few applications of Golden Sunset AppleBarrel acrylic, which was a mistake!
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| ATSF 129782 with overboard roof weathering |
I did a final over-wash of Pavement to tone down the dabs of Golden Sunset, which was too bright.
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| Black roof weathered |
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out now that the Golden Sunset yellow is toned down.
In Closing
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| Right side of ATSF 129782 in 'soft' cloudy NV evening light |
Finishing touches include patching out the tare date and last 3-digits of the LD LMT and LT WT. New last 3-digits of the weights and tare station and date. I decided to set this car up as an Santa Fe Bakersfield reweighed car from August, 1949.
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| Left side of ATSF 129782 in 'soft' cloudy NV evening light |
Chalk marks with the white and light gray pencils are also applied along the lower sides of the car.
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| IMRC's WWII Emergency Boxcar lettered for Santa Fe Bx38 class in natural summer NV sunlight. |
I'm looking forward to getting the LED lighting over the Jawbone Branch finished, as it will provide better lighting for photographing the weathering on these cars.
Jason Hill
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