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Rapido single sheathed box cars B&O Brown from Green

Bruce Griffin
 

Rob,

I have been looking for color photos of any B&O brown boxcar for years, along with others, and they are pretty limited. I skipped some steps in my weathering process, like the reweigh/repack changes, chalk marks, etc. to jump ahead and see what I could do with the basic color. I did paint some gray spots on the roof for paint failure (they show how red I had to make the overspray) and the “metal” parts were given a black pin wash. 

I used my standard matte varnish (https://bomodeling.com/2020/04/30/developing-my-painting-and-decaling-techniques-for-ho-scale-freight-cars/  ) with a few drops of Vallejo Red Brown and Vallejo Fire Red to get the color to shift. I think that’s how the color wheel works, to change a green (blue and yellow mixed) use more red to shift the color away from green. I think it came pretty close to a brown I can weather and darken to look good in my fleet. 

The photos attached are all taken under 5000k LED lights (layout and paint booth). I had to add two coats and the overspray was very pink  While still wet, I used a wet microbrush to wipe the pink overspray from the lettering as it was way too pink to look appropriate. This caused some blotching I hope to cover with some dirt and soot in further weathering  I hit it with untinted, clear matte as a last coat while still wet to try to cover the blotching.

See what you think, for me it’s very close color match to the M-53 I photographed it next to in an earlier photo and in the paint booth. At this post I’ll call it a save and move on. Lemons, make lemonade. Please share what you are able to do with your OD Green boxcar.

 

Bruce D. Griffin
Ashland, MD
https://bomodeling.com/blog/

 

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Joseph
 

Good save indeed!   
Joe Binish
New Hope MN

On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 11:18 PM Bruce Griffin <bdg1210@...> wrote:

Rob,

I have been looking for color photos of any B&O brown boxcar for years, along with others, and they are pretty limited. I skipped some steps in my weathering process, like the reweigh/repack changes, chalk marks, etc. to jump ahead and see what I could do with the basic color. I did paint some gray spots on the roof for paint failure (they show how red I had to make the overspray) and the “metal” parts were given a black pin wash. 

I used my standard matte varnish (https://bomodeling.com/2020/04/30/developing-my-painting-and-decaling-techniques-for-ho-scale-freight-cars/  ) with a few drops of Vallejo Red Brown and Vallejo Fire Red to get the color to shift. I think that’s how the color wheel works, to change a green (blue and yellow mixed) use more red to shift the color away from green. I think it came pretty close to a brown I can weather and darken to look good in my fleet. 

The photos attached are all taken under 5000k LED lights (layout and paint booth). I had to add two coats and the overspray was very pink  While still wet, I used a wet microbrush to wipe the pink overspray from the lettering as it was way too pink to look appropriate. This caused some blotching I hope to cover with some dirt and soot in further weathering  I hit it with untinted, clear matte as a last coat while still wet to try to cover the blotching.

See what you think, for me it’s very close color match to the M-53 I photographed it next to in an earlier photo and in the paint booth. At this post I’ll call it a save and move on. Lemons, make lemonade. Please share what you are able to do with your OD Green boxcar.

 

Bruce D. Griffin
Ashland, MD
https://bomodeling.com/blog/

 
Robert kirkham
 

Nice results Bruce.  I think you are exactly right on the colour wheel & your model has turned out a pleasing colour to me.   Great “save”!

I have as yet only “looked" at the model; was thinking of using some MIG rust wash to do the same tinting you have.  On reconsideration, I think that may be an error as “rust” is too orange.  I’m thinking the colour should be a boxcar red with less of a bias toward yellow than rust has.  Something with more of a bias toward the blue side of the colour wheel.   In any event, I’ll be very pleased if I can save the lettering as you have, but i’m feeling like buying a little insurance -  I am wondering about the most appropriate decals if I don’t have the same level of success.   I have not found decals set for the B&O NMRA cars so far . . . .   

Rob

On Oct 8, 2022, at 9:18 PM, Bruce Griffin <bdg1210@...> wrote:

Rob,

I have been looking for color photos of any B&O brown boxcar for years, along with others, and they are pretty limited. I skipped some steps in my weathering process, like the reweigh/repack changes, chalk marks, etc. to jump ahead and see what I could do with the basic color. I did paint some gray spots on the roof for paint failure (they show how red I had to make the overspray) and the “metal” parts were given a black pin wash. 

I used my standard matte varnish (https://bomodeling.com/2020/04/30/developing-my-painting-and-decaling-techniques-for-ho-scale-freight-cars/  ) with a few drops of Vallejo Red Brown and Vallejo Fire Red to get the color to shift. I think that’s how the color wheel works, to change a green (blue and yellow mixed) use more red to shift the color away from green. I think it came pretty close to a brown I can weather and darken to look good in my fleet. 

The photos attached are all taken under 5000k LED lights (layout and paint booth). I had to add two coats and the overspray was very pink  While still wet, I used a wet microbrush to wipe the pink overspray from the lettering as it was way too pink to look appropriate. This caused some blotching I hope to cover with some dirt and soot in further weathering  I hit it with untinted, clear matte as a last coat while still wet to try to cover the blotching.

See what you think, for me it’s very close color match to the M-53 I photographed it next to in an earlier photo and in the paint booth. At this post I’ll call it a save and move on. Lemons, make lemonade. Please share what you are able to do with your OD Green boxcar.

 

Bruce D. Griffin
Ashland, MD
https://bomodeling.com/blog/

 
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