Here I am, with a nice lifelike N scale (1/160) boxcar in blue color. At first I wanted to add it in a post-apocalyptic diorama, based on the "The Book of Eli" movie, where everything is burned and rusting away after a nuclear holocaust. So I wanted my model to look as if it 's standing there for more than 30 years under the acid rain and the dusty winds. Bellow, 2 screenshots from the movie.....

So the boxcar looked like that when I bought it....

Time to wipe out this shiny blue color and to extract the nature of the rusted and rotten metal....