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Rapido Northern Pacific boxcar

Charlie Duckworth
 

I had a kidney stone blasted yesterday and since they put me under general anesthesia no driving for 24 hours.  I’d painted the black areas on the Seaboard AF-4 and wanted the paint to completely dry before masking for the sides.  Looking around the layout for something to occupy my time here was an untouched Rapido NP boxcar.  Sprayed it with my Dullcote mix of tan and black to tone down the factory lettering and provide some ‘tooth’ for colored pencils and PanPastels.   Various light and dark browns were used on a few of the boards, then used a mix of 91% alcohol and thinner with black oil paint and ‘pin washed’ the bolt heads and details on the ends of the roof just to accent some of the details on the model.  Roof walk painted with Vallejo black, flat brown and light gray mixed.  

Relaxing weathering effort on a nice RTR model. 



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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

Paul Doggett
 

Charlie 

Excellent thank you for sharing yet again 

Paul Doggett 


On 30 Sep 2022, at 12:12, Charlie Duckworth via groups.io <Worth51@...> wrote:



I had a kidney stone blasted yesterday and since they put me under general anesthesia no driving for 24 hours.  I’d painted the black areas on the Seaboard AF-4 and wanted the paint to completely dry before masking for the sides.  Looking around the layout for something to occupy my time here was an untouched Rapido NP boxcar.  Sprayed it with my Dullcote mix of tan and black to tone down the factory lettering and provide some ‘tooth’ for colored pencils and PanPastels.   Various light and dark browns were used on a few of the boards, then used a mix of 91% alcohol and thinner with black oil paint and ‘pin washed’ the bolt heads and details on the ends of the roof just to accent some of the details on the model.  Roof walk painted with Vallejo black, flat brown and light gray mixed.  

Relaxing weathering effort on a nice RTR model. 



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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

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Charlie Duckworth
 

Paul
Thanks, only criticism I have with this model, is oddly, the vertical side boards have somewhat rounded edges making it difficult to have a pencil color adhere to a surface.  However the ‘boards’ making up the doors were flat as on an Accurail model.  Not sure how Rapido didn’t catch this before production.  
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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

Paul Doggett
 

Charlie 

You are welcome, I have never got around to weathering mine but I know what you mean about the planks there’s no excuse for it these days 

Paul Doggett 


On 30 Sep 2022, at 13:18, Charlie Duckworth via groups.io <Worth51@...> wrote:

Paul
Thanks, only criticism I have with this model, is oddly, the vertical side boards have somewhat rounded edges making it difficult to have a pencil color adhere to a surface.  However the ‘boards’ making up the doors were flat as on an Accurail model.  Not sure how Rapido didn’t catch this before production.  
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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

Bill J.
 

Charlie!  Beautiful work, not surprising from you!

About your Dullcoat overspray?  Testors Dullcoat?  Cut with lacquer thinner?  What paint, I thought hobby paints didn’t like lacquer thinner!  

A few drops?  Does that mean about 5% added color?  More or less?

I really want to try this, but I don’t want to ruin a beautiful car.

Many thanks,

Bill Jolitz 

radiodial868
 

Wow, that is so much better looking than the shiny version from the package.  You've got that weathering thing dialed in. Going to use this as an inspiration to take mine out and weather, the chipping galvanized panels edges included.
Now, if I could just convince you to migrate to Sergent/IMW couplers. That thing is huge hanging of the ends. What is that?
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RJ Dial
Mendocino, CA

Benjamin Hom
 

Bill Jolitz wrote:
"I really want to try this, but I don’t want to ruin a beautiful car."

Nobody said that your first attempt has to be on your Rapido model.  Plenty of AHM DS boxcars out there to practice on.


Ben Hom

Eric Hansmann
 

Wow. That's another outstanding model, Charlie. Great work!
 
I added one of these Rapido models to my 1926 fleet a couple years ago. It was featured in a couple of blog posts. Here's one on the basics with notes on alterations and upgrades to reflect a 1926 appearance.
http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2018/12/16/new-rapido-boxcar-model/
 
And another post on the upgrades..
http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2019/01/30/alterations/
 
Attached is an image of the completed and weathered model. Charlie mentioned the odd sheathing surface. I had forgotten about that until I started reviewing images of the model. I don't think it registered much when I weathered the model as I did not use colored pencils to alter the sheathing appearance.
 
 
Eric Hansmann
Murfreesboro, TN
 
 
 

On 09/30/2022 7:18 AM CDT Charlie Duckworth via groups.io <worth51@...> wrote:
 
 
Paul
Thanks, only criticism I have with this model, is oddly, the vertical side boards have somewhat rounded edges making it difficult to have a pencil color adhere to a surface.  However the ‘boards’ making up the doors were flat as on an Accurail model.  Not sure how Rapido didn’t catch this before production.  
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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

 

O Fenton Wells
 

Nicely done Charlie 
Fenton 


On Sep 30, 2022, at 8:18 AM, Charlie Duckworth via groups.io <Worth51@...> wrote:

Paul
Thanks, only criticism I have with this model, is oddly, the vertical side boards have somewhat rounded edges making it difficult to have a pencil color adhere to a surface.  However the ‘boards’ making up the doors were flat as on an Accurail model.  Not sure how Rapido didn’t catch this before production.  
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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

Charlie Duckworth
 

RJ
That’s the couple that came with the car. I’m planning on changing out to a Kadee semi scale one 

Charlie 

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 10:04 AM radiodial868 <radiodial57_at_gmail.com_Worth51@...> wrote:
Wow, that is so much better looking than the shiny version from the package. You've got that weathering thing dialed in. Going to use this as an inspiration to take mine out and weather, the chipping
Wow, that is so much better looking than the shiny version from the package.  You've got that weathering thing dialed in. Going to use this as an inspiration to take mine out and weather, the chipping galvanized panels edges included.
Now, if I could just convince you to migrate to Sergent/IMW couplers. That thing is huge hanging of the ends. What is that?
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RJ Dial
Mendocino, CA

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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

Charlie Duckworth
 

Bill J
Here's my formula 
Here’s my Dullcote mix - which I airbrush.  Dullcote, MM black and any tan color in this example I’m using an Afrika Korp brown that MM made and thinner with Testors thinner.   Dullcote is thinned so you can spray through an airbrush and the a few drops of the tan and black.  Go light on the drops (4-5) and just mix up a third of a bottle.   What you’re striving for is to reduce the whiteness of the factory lettering and provide a ‘tooth’ to the model for the pencils and pastels to have a surface to hold on to .  
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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

Tony Thompson
 

Nice job, Charlie, showing what really has to be done on these “R-T-R” models, and nicely done too.

Tony Thompson
tony@...

WILLIAM PARDIE
 

Charlie has a down day and yet knocks a freight car that would take the rest of us (except for Clark and Paul D) a week to do.  He is rapidly rising on my railroad hero list.

Bill Pardie






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-------- Original message --------
From: "Charlie Duckworth via groups.io" <Worth51@...>
Date: 9/30/22 7:04 AM (GMT-10:00)
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Rapido Northern Pacific boxcar

RJ
That’s the couple that came with the car. I’m planning on changing out to a Kadee semi scale one 

Charlie 

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 10:04 AM radiodial868 <radiodial57_at_gmail.com_Worth51@...> wrote:
Wow, that is so much better looking than the shiny version from the package. You've got that weathering thing dialed in. Going to use this as an inspiration to take mine out and weather, the chipping
Wow, that is so much better looking than the shiny version from the package.  You've got that weathering thing dialed in. Going to use this as an inspiration to take mine out and weather, the chipping galvanized panels edges included.
Now, if I could just convince you to migrate to Sergent/IMW couplers. That thing is huge hanging of the ends. What is that?
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RJ Dial
Mendocino, CA

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Charlie Duckworth 
Omaha, Ne.

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