CPAA #204526 #204527 #204512, 50' Berwick Boxcarr, Branchline Blueprint Kits

BNSF #724895 ACF 50"6 Box car

N&W #55912 50' Welded AAR Boxcar

IC #501152 50' Berwick Boxcar

CELX 1124 20,700 Gallon Non-Insulated Tank Car

 Seventy One

A 20,700 Gallon Non-Insulated Tank Car. The focus was to be a dirty underside. Small graffiti. I added a little bit of rust and grime to the tank seams to make them pop a bit.

Seventy Two, Three and Four

Details of the end of the car. Work on this car was done on acrylics.

CP 400259 62' Tank Car

 Sixty Five

Here we have another commissioned work. This is an Athearn tank car kit that was given to me assembled. I did a medium weathering job with some rust and went light on the graffiti. Weathering was done with acrylics, rust with oils and graffiti with paint markers

As a side note, in searching RR Pictures Archives it appears that CP mostly used these cars for MOW or internal purposes.

 Sixty Six

 Sixty Seven and Sixty Eight

Close up of the rust and of the "streaking" letters. I did the streaking with several light washes of acrylic paint. 

Sixty Nine

The other side of the car

 Seventy

I took the idea of the red paint off a prototype photo

ARMN 110230 Trinity TRINCool 64’ Reefer

(This image is copyright Ian McCord and used by permission)

 Hello all,

Above is a photo of the prototype car. I was commissioned to replicate it onto a nice new Exact Rail version of this car.  I normally do not do such requests as I find it easier to capture the essence of a prototype car over an exact duplicate. For this request the weathering and graffiti work was such that I was comfortable with the request. Please see the results below. 

Paints were a combination of acrylic and oils. Graffiti was done using paint markers.

 Fifty Nine

 Sixty

 Sixty One

 Sixty Two

 Sixty Three

Sixty Four

MILW 4630 Hi Cube Box Car

 Fifty Three
Here I also had some assistance. "FRIGR" is not my work nor is the other side of the car. I went over the whole car, added "Zone" and did the stencil as the numbers had been obscured. Thanks to FRIGR and the others for helping the development of my graffiti work. All weathering is mine with oils.

 Fifty Four

 Fifty Five

 Fifty Six
To better understand graffiti work I also re-did the colour on this side of the car.

 Fifty Seven

Fifty Eight

CN 479846 & CN 479853 40' Box Cars

    Thirty Four.

These two cars started out as the same car. Both are Athearn kits that I bought second hand. What these cars represent is my early attempts at working with graffiti as well as some examples from others that did some outline work for me. "Grim" and  "Zone" are my original work while the other work is outlined by friends but gone over by me with colour.

 Thirty Five

 Thirty Six
Again the paints used is a combination of acrylics and oils. I wanted these cars to be on the way to being very uncared for but not quite there yet. I consider these cars to be a medium to heavy weather job with heavy graffiti work.

 Thirty Seven

 Thirty Eight

 Thirty Nine

 Forty

 Forty One

 Forty Two

 Forty Three
...I really must learn how to take pictures better.

 Forty Four

 Forty Five

 Forty Six

 Forty Seven

 Forty Eight

Forty Nine
As these cars were to be era wise in at least the late 70's I wanted the running boards off. I filled in the holes and re-worked the ridge work. Finished work below.

 Fifty

 Fifty One

Fifty Two