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