Rustbuckets N scale.

 A couple of heavily weathered freight cars in N scale. Scratches made with acrylics and a lot of washes with enamels and oils to achieve the effects.

Some hard working freight cars

Some time ago I opened a box with N scale freight cars and picked 4 of them to use them as objects for my weathering experiments. 2 were made xtremely rusty as I wanted to put them in a Post Apocalyptic Nuclear holocaust diorama. As I changed my plans only one made it in the dio. More about that in the future. This post is about the other 3. Made a custom base for all of them and attended at IPMS NAtionals where they won a silver each at Masterclass "Trains non working all scales".


 Atlas Western Maryland covered hopper.Apart the weathering I replaced the trucks-couplers with Microtrains sets on this one. This one is for sale , just visit my Ebay page.

The second one, an Atlas also Boxcar. Changed the company to C&O with Microscale decals and airbrushing the Heralds.

The 3d one is a cheap Bev Bel Evans High Cube 50' Boxcar. It started its life as a Western Maryland. I striped all the paint, replaced the lower step of the ladders with thin brass rod and corrected the problem of the floor that these models have: The front sits higher of the back and vice versa. Also made it to look heavy just like the original. Body mount Microtrains couplers and Microscale decals.

 

All 3 of them are currently on auction in my Ebay page.

An N scale dio as a base...

I wanted to create a base for a couple of old and abused freight cars , i.e. the Lifelike 3dome tank car ( remember it from a previous diorama design? ) and a yellow Union Pacific box car. I decided for the second to remove the wheels and add timbers as bases, so it resembles a small warehouse.

The building was created as a background but it evolved during the construction. It's made out of cardboard for the inner structure and printed brick sheets that I 've worked a bit at photoshop for the first stage of weathering. Wood putty was used for covering the seams and for adding some concrete texture on the cardboard. Some items - the windows, the rusted crane on the rooftop etc. - are there just for the photography and not glued yet. Some details are still missing.