This guy is now finished, well, almost! After applying the decals, I’ll be lightly spraying a dirt color over the car plus a little light gray over the frame sill, then a final seal. Here’s the car this morning:

Onward to the next project. This one is an MDC gondola that started out bright yellow lettered for Illinois Terminal. This car already has three different weathering mediums applied, plus I’ve changed out the trucks and wheels, replacing the wheels with Intermountain semi scale wheels. Below are several photos of the project in progress. Still […]

Below is a photo of the now finished CSX boxcar,which will also go with me to the show at the end of the month. If the car doesn’t sell, it will go up on eBay. Also a photo of how the car started out of the box!

Although I posted this on the layout website, I thought I’d share this here on The Weathering Depot site as well. Yesterday I was able to purchase two beautiful photo backdrops made by Realistic Backgrounds. These were installed yesterday directly to the plain white wall behind the layout with Velcro strips and I must say […]

Please join me over at my fairly new website strictly for my modular layout! I’ll from here forward post my weathering projects here on The Weathering Depot website and post news and photos about my layout over at: https://cincinnatiterminalsub.blogspot.com/?m=0

Here is the hew project just started, this one is of course an HO scale Atlas 50’ FMC boxcar lettered for CSX. Below is how the car started out of the box: I already have the underside done with a brown/grimy black paint plus a wash added then Pan Pastel dirt color added while wet […]

Here’s a quick side project I started on to weather up this forgotten piece of rolling stock soon to go on eBay. This is an older Accurail car I’ve had for some time with very limited weathering. I decided to enhance the weathering by doing the car ends, underside, and adding rust and dirt to […]

Some other photos from switching operations the past several days….

My modules are now wired up and running after the expertise of Tom C who wired the original layout. Trains are already running great on the modules! Here are some photos of switching operations yesterday, enjoy!

While off this week I was able to finish another model to go up on my eBay store. This car as you can see is an HO scale Walther’s Mainline series 50’ ACF Railbox car. Photo below shows it new in box: The car actually took two weeks to complete. Without going into too much […]

I didn’t like the sudden transition to the Arizona Rock & Mineral limestone ballast on the module, so I spent the morning painting over it to try to match their yard mix ballast on the rest of the modules, then weathered a bit of it per a video I came across on YouTube. Used a […]

I’m currently on the last car for this current friend/client, a local modeler who models current day operations in California. This CSX hopper started out as shown below and was asked to be heavily weathered but with all the lettering and numbers visible. To do this I’ve simply taped it off to show it as […]

Just in is this Tangent PRR X58 class 50’ boxcar repainted to PC in 1973. A rare catch of a beautifully detailed model which will join the fleet. This car will receive minimal weathering to represent a newer car. You have to have one fairly clean car on the layout…!

Another short post today showing some random scenes from around the layout. Hope you enjoy!

Just a short piece today showing another layer of rust texture and powder on the roof of my ex-SBV box car. This guy now has four layers of weathering mediums on the roof alone! Photo below:

Here is the latest project that is now finished. More rust texture was applied to the roof plus the underside was done with again what I call “texture weathering ” that simulates I think built up dirt and grime. Finally, reflective stripes by Smokebox Graphics were applied. Photos of the finished car below:

Next car for my local friend and client is this hopper patched for SSW. I started on this one by matching the paint a bit lighter then fading the car. This is still a work in progress, so I’ll have more photos when finished. But for now, here’s what I did to the rest of […]

I’m posting this morning another project finished for a local modeler/client. This is one of three HO scale cars to weather in between working on more HOn3 cars. This car was picked up at a recent operating session. This Railbox car is a “primed for grime” series car and looked as such below out of […]

Here I have part 2 of the current layout:

Well, actually not Johnny but myself in my first video on my two module layout. These are in three parts, so here’s part one and away we go!