C&S #22 - A Little Freight Car Weathering

[Heisler]

I decided it was time for a little work on my train for my western town of Calmity. The town is served by the Colorado & Northwestern RR which interchanges with the D&RGW and the C&S (and any other Colorado RR that I can find decals for). I grabbed four of my freight cars (kind of at random) and decided to do a little weathering work. You can follow the process on my blog at:
http://wargamesandrailroads.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-little-freight-car-weathering.html
Here is the finished project if you don't want to see the start to finish progression:

[OSHIROmodels]

Splendid work 

cheers

James

[FramFramson]

Aces! Those look great!

[Michi]

Excellent waethering! I will have to do similar in the close future.

[juergen c. olk]

That is very realistic looking wow! Thanx for the tutorial.

[Mason]

That is a gorgeous example of weathering work.
 

[Heisler]

Thanks guys. I have been moving towards getting another batch of cars done but I need decals for them first. I spent a week trying to make my own. Not a great success for the first batch but I'll continue down the path since its the only way I can get the custom decals I need, well short of actually finding someone to do it.

[Mr. Peabody]

Spent a several very enjoyable hours browsing your blog this morning. GREAT stuff. Love the effective, no-nonsense approach you have to weathering your rolling stock. 

Hope you have success with your decals! I keep finding more and more great stuff to do with Inkscape.

[Heisler]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed browsing through the blog. Inkscape is a neat program, very capable with a relatively short learning curve to get started.

[Ramirez Noname]

Great job on the freight cars, Sir.

RMZ

[matthais-mouse]

Sorry if I missed this elsewhere but have you tried the woodland scenics decals? They are quite good.

Very nice looking rolling stock too, when next at a PC ill look at the blog too

[Heisler]

Sorry if I missed this elsewhere but have you tried the woodland scenics decals? They are quite good.

Very nice looking rolling stock too, when next at a PC ill look at the blog too

I have checked out the Woodland Scenics decals, although they are actually dry rub transfers rather than water slide decals. The fonts for letters and numbers available from Woodland Scenics is pretty limited and while my railroad is what we refer to as proto-freelanced I'm anal enough about it to want something closer to the actual font style used by the C&N RY.

The Woodland Scenic sets are an excellent resource though for those that just want something that looks like it belongs in the old west period.

[CPBelt]

Always nice work! Always have liked the blog.

[matthais-mouse]

I have checked out the Woodland Scenics decals, although they are actually dry rub transfers rather than water slide decals. The fonts for letters and numbers available from Woodland Scenics is pretty limited and while my railroad is what we refer to as proto-freelanced I'm anal enough about it to want something closer to the actual font style used by the C&N RY.

The Woodland Scenic sets are an excellent resource though for those that just want something that looks like it belongs in the old west period.

Ahhh I see, well as long as you knew they were available thats the main thing

[Heisler]

Ahhh I see, well as long as you knew they were available thats the main thing

Its always good to point stuff like that out. You never know when that kind of information will be useful to someone.