Weathered freight cars for Sweethome Alabama

[Jon Grant 4472]

I started building Sweethome Alabama exactly 2 years ago and have now reached the stage where the trackwork, electrics and scenery are pretty much complete, so much so that I have accepted an invite to attend a Model Railway exhibition in November.

 

I now have to concentrate on detailling and weathering the rolling stock which will run on the layout.

 

The latest freight car to enter service is a TTX excess height boxcar (Athearn Genesis 60' Gunderson). although a bit new for the layout (2007 build), it's a very nice model and the graffiti was added by a friend at work, who is a wargaming figure painter. The prototype photos I found showed very clean cars, but many of them had been 'tagged' with graffiti, possibly within weeks of entering service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jon

[shortliner]

Jon - if you want to do some graffiti ( or get your mate to do it ) get yourself a copy of this - worth every penny

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freight-Train-Graffiti-Street-Graphics/dp/0500285969/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311795041&sr=8-1 Recommended to me by a gent doing demos at Perth

[Pugsley]

The 3rd pic down should be in the 'how realistic' section - that really is superb modelling.

[Prof Klyzlr]

Jon - if you want to do some graffiti ( or get your mate to do it ) get yourself a copy of this - worth every penny

http://www.amazon.co...11795041&sr=8-1 Recommended to me by a gent doing demos at Perth

 

 

Dear Jack,

 

A quick search on some audction sites shows at least 3 different covers for what aledges to be the same book,

buyer beware!

 

Happy Modelling,

Aim to Improve,

Prof Klyzlr

[Jon Grant 4472]

A couple more new photos of weathered freight cars. One of these days, I'll get round to fitting drop steps to the MDW car

 

 

 

Jon