Rapido - CN NSC Combination Door Boxcar

Lightly weathered, mainly just paint fading done to the sides finds my boxcar rolling along the WRD.

I recently picked up a CN Rapido combination door boxcar. They are a nice looking model that all I had to do was add some weathering. Once a coat of flat finish is applied to the car I began with the roof. The roof got a coat of India ink and alcohol. I then applied PanPastel raw umber shade, Vallejo rust texture and AK dark rust deposits on the roof edges and seams. A simple process that makes the car look weathered even if nothing else is done to the car.

I added a few rust spots using Micron black 03 pen with the dots dragged down with a damp brush. I kept these to a minimum. The car is newer as modeled. Sides are done with PanPastel blender to fade the boxcar red a bit followed by raw umber shade near the bottom and roof edges. Paynes grey extra dark (an almost black color is applied to the door, ends and lower areas lightly. A small piece of paper is used as a placard on the door.

Trucks are painted AK winter streaking grime and the wheels are cinnamon brown with PanPastel paynes grey extra dark next to darken them up a bit.

These National Steel Car's were built in Hamilton exclusively for CN in the late 1970's. The CN cars were in revenue service until being retired in the 2000's...George Dutka

Just out of the box and looking way too glossy.

The door is lightly weathered as it is newer. As it ages the yellow forklift door bar is really rusted and beat up. This detail one has to add to the model...the only part that is not attached to the model. The edges of the doors and center areas are rusty from being hit by the forklift repeatedly leaving the paint removed and rusting. I added a paper placard also.

The roof is coated with flat finish and I have just added India ink and alcohol which gives an interesting and weathered look to the roof. In this view the roof is almost dry. The dark areas are still a bit wet. The coloring goes on dark and dries much lighter. One can leave it at just that, but I like to take it a bit further.

Some AK and Vallejo coloring and PanPastel raw umber shade are added to the roof.