Large Scale Central

Boxcars

Modeling Rolling stock
#1

More boxcars rolled out of the shop today.

#2

Nice cars Bob, but your sign painter needs some lesons in lettering freight cars.

#3

Bob, nice looking cars, but isn’t the lettering just a lil over the top??? can’t you tone it down a bit???

#4

I like them, and your simplistic approach to numbering. Very post common-carrier EBTish :smiley:

#5

Nice work Bob. Now you’ll have a little room in the car shops

#6

Thanks guys. Yep, a bit of room in the shops. Two cabeese just rolled in there for completion.

#7

I like 'em.
Decaling is a PITA for me.
I figure if the real ones had painted lettering, why can’t we do it as well.
I bought some little stencils, but still can’t get the edges of the lettering
sharp.

#8

Try using an old fountain pen John. Far more control than a brush. Flat acrylic paint works well and is easily washed off the nib.

#9
Alan Lott said:
Try using an old fountain pen John. Far more control than a brush. Flat acrylic paint works well and is easily washed off the nib.
My local art supply store has a lot of "paint pens" in any color you can think of with fione/med/wide tips. I used one to add gold striping to a coach - just ran it along the ruler and it was done. Should be fairly easy to write with if you really want those kind of numbers.

P.S. Added 8/22. The same art store has a “bow pen”, which is similar in effect to a fountain pen, but specifically designed for writing/drawing using paint or other none-ink liquids.

#10

This is assuming I have some artistic talent with a brush/pen, which I don’t. I can’t draw a straight line with a ruler.

#11

Alan,

Great tip, never would have thunk it!!!

Edit - Calligraphy pens for letters and numbers. HMMMM

Bob C.