InterMountain C&O 1937 boxcar with Deco Ends
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I’ve had this RTR car for a while and just corrected its most serious flaw. Only 5400 had the black doors; the remaining cars in the series doors matched the sides. I mixed up some TruColor CB&Q BCR with VIA yellow to match the sides and resprayed the doors. The Route card and placard boards were replaced with a set from Tangent. The side hand holds were replaced with Kade’s and wire replace the grabs on the running board above the ladders. Pencils and Pan Pastel was used on the rivet seams. Yarmouth stirrups replaced the plastic ones
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Paul Doggett
Charlie
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Yet another fine car. Paul Doggett
On 25 Jun 2022, at 02:12, Charlie Duckworth via groups.io <Worth51@...> wrote:
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golden1014
Awesome! Truly—this is beautiful. How’d you fade the sides? What kind of treatment did you give to the roof?
John Golden
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Well done Charlie, great paint match. And nice looking car Fenton
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John
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Charlie,
Looking at your post I had a "Huh" moment. I have been looking at photos of these cars for really decades. As a member and former Board of Director for the Chesapeake & Ohio Histerical Society, my mind processed the photos as having black doors for decades. But going back and looking at some of my photos, they had the door color matching the sides. Did Intermountain not do all their homework? Did C&OHS not supply them enough photos? Re-looking through my photos, also found some had the ends as the same as the side color also. But appears not all either as some had black. Ok, but lets add some controversy, see attached photo of C&O Deco Car #5492. Is that a black door with black rubbed off or a BCR door with soot? But, just a great job on your car. Can I send you my 5 cars to 'fix'???? Just kidding.... But, really can I????? -- John Henning
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John. I got my information off this O gauge site on C&O 5400 being the only example with black doors but your image certainly raises the question is the site correct? https://www.richyodermodels.com/rym_fc_co_boxcar5400.htm
If it’s wrong I wonder were he got his information? Since the car was built in 1937 and my layout is in the early 1950’s it’s only 15-17 years old so I wanted to keep the original lettering. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.
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radiodial868
One would never know that was at one time an Intermountain RTR car.
-- ------------------- RJ Dial Mendocino, CA
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On 2022-06-25 09:47, radiodial868 wrote:
One would never know that was at one time an Intermountain RTR car.-- Kevin Macomber NGMC (717) 474-8399 www.narrowgaugemodeling.com
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The key is in Charlie's first post. Adding the yellow to the paint mix.
I tried this on a recent box car project using Vallejo Model Color acrylics and it really does change the color tone to give it a more sun bleached character. I added Vallejo 70.953 Flat Yellow to 70.982 Cavalry Brown and brushed it over the Tamiya Red Oxide Surface Primer coat on a Trix UP 1940 boxcar I am re-building. Note that the otherwise excellent Trix paint scheme is incorrect for the UP A-50-16 car and the only way to fix it consistently over large areas and apply the NSC UP A-50-16 decal set. -- Ken Adams Omicron BA2.2 may come and go but I still live mostly in splendid Shelter In Place solitude Location: About half way up Walnut Creek Owner PlasticFreightCarBuilders@groups.io
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Lloyd Keyser
Great looking car Charlie. Could you give a little detail on the pan pastel and pencil of the rivet detail. It's subtle but very effective. What size brush did you use and was the pencil run down the rivets before or after the PP.?LK
On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 1:14 PM Ken Adams <smadanek44g@...> wrote: The key is in Charlie's first post. Adding the yellow to the paint mix.
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Lloyd Here’s the roof with black and brown Pan Pastels.
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Curt Fortenberry
I would suggest getting a color wheel. It would help decide colors, tones, shades, etc. Curt Fortenberry
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WILLIAM PARDIE
Charlie is right at the top of my weathering heros list and I hang on his every word. There are a wide variety of weathering pencils out there and I think that I have bought most of them. I just came across a set of Conti pencils which I bought years ago after an article in RMC touted using pencils. The key is to try different products and find what you are comfortable with. I thought that the AK pencils were a water color product that you moistened to use. I may have these confused with another new product on the market. Incidently Charlie is in good company on my hero list which includes Armoldd Swartzenegger, John Cena and Clint Eastwood. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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akerboomk
RE: John Henning photo door
Looks to me like it is BCR + someone over-did the rust effects... -- Ken Akerboom
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Bill While the AK water color pencils can be dipped in water I also just draw with them as a normal colored pencil but the lead is softer and allows you to blend it. I bought the rust color set but haven’t had them that long so I haven’t really mastered the heavy rust you see on some cars. As others have commented there’s a lot of weathering techniques done by the 1/35 armor modelers that are museum quality and that’s were I get many of my ideas in doing our HO freight cars.
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Dullcote & alcohol can make for some very interesting 'blush' effects (the lighter patches)
On 6/25/2022 7:15 AM, Charlie Duckworth via groups.io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Here's a C&O car with early style lettering, a 1954 shop date, in a 1956 photo.
On 6/25/2022 9:17 AM, Charlie Duckworth via groups.io wrote:
John. I got my information off this O gauge site on C&O 5400 being the only example with black doors but your image certainly raises the question is the site correct? https://www.richyodermodels.com/rym_fc_co_boxcar5400.htm --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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