Guys I need some help please. I'm building a couple of Illinois Central cabooses for my interchange trains. I'm doing the later gray models (pic below). I have the lettering and death star but no numbers or reporting marks. I can't find a set of decals that have them for freight cars. Any ideas??? Thank you in advance.
Greg, I have another BN caboose that still needs weathering sitting here. I was actually looking at your Soo caboose. The BN really let them go at the end before they scrapped them all. I think a heavy weathered one like yours is needed.
Jerome: I used a mixture of oils, aryclic paints and powders to weather the caboose. It was a fun several days and time is needed for the coats of DullCote to dry between applying another layer of weathering. I enjoy weathering and will do more cars in a few weeks.
Greg
This ACL box car was weathered using only oil paints. First I applied a coat of streaked oil, diluted Burned Sienna, down the sides and ends of the car. Once dry and it takes several days to dry, I used slightly diluted oil paint (used fast drying thinner) to make the points of rust and when nearly dry I used diluted Burned Sienna t make the rust streaks. After everything had dried I gave it a coat of DullCote.-Greg
PS: The door was a replacement door so there's little weathering done to the red door.
I used a Mr. Clean scrubbing pad to sand it down. Takes a lot of elbow grease but you can control how much comes off. Doesn't hurt the finish at all. Usually the first step I do.