It took quite a bit of time to do the decals but then it's something I enjoy doing. The larger decals had to be carefully manipulated around the pillars. The decal set came with decals for 2 RailBox box cars but only one set for the RailGon so I used two decal sets. The stock road number is 310266. I moved the numbers around on the second set to make the second car's road number 301662.
The floors of the gondolas were brushed with rail brown and then dabbed with a small sponge brush to give it the texture seen here. The inside walls were given the same treatment only lighter with some of the black showing through.
After a spray of Dullcoat, 310662 got some light weathering and 301266 got a little heavier weathering.
I had some nice low profile metal wheels that fit the Atlas trucks so kept those trucks and their couplers and sprayed the side frames of the trucks with rail brown and installed those metal wheels. These roll really well and these two gondolas are now ready for service. These 52 foot cars are just a bit longer then the cast resin loads I have for the Micro-Trains 50 ft gondolas . So the next project will be to make some scrap metal loads for these.
They look great. I can't imagine how decaling an N scale car is "fun" but you certainly did a nice job. And then you weathered it!
ReplyDeleteThank you ! And yes, I started weathering some of the freight cars I use on the layout. It's a great way to hide flaws in a custom paint job.
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