Well, I figured it was time to start another project that may never get finished… This time it’s going to be a 53’ Evans Double Door Box Car. The donor car was one of the 2002 Aristo Craft FEC show cars. When it’s done, she’ll be a slightly beat up repainted Michigan Coffee Car. I’ll post pictures as I go. The first shot is the car in stock form with the truck mounted couplers removed. Kadee body mount couplers will go back on with nice draft gear boxes for smooth starts.
Here’s the first part of the repaint.
And in one of Jonathan’s N scale magazines they had an interesting article about over spraying the roof on box cars. The idea is to duplicate the way cars are repainted in the shops. The sides are prepped and painted while the roof is left alone to catch all the over spray from the work done while the car is in the shop. I thought I’d give it a try on the coffee car to see if I like the effect. Here’s what it looks like now but it may be better after the roof gets a bit of weathering done later.
Here’s the second part of the new paint job… I did a quick tape job and loosely covered the top of the car with newspaper and shot the second color onto the car. I decided to paint the ends a solid color instead of making it two colors like the sides. I think it gives a more prototypical style to it. Also note the top half of the car looks more yellow in these shots. It’s really a aged white color though. It looks much more white in real life, more of an antique tinge if you will. I’m not too worried about the touch up work along the taped edge’s where the bars, ladders or edges are either. Most likely they will get rusted and weathered so you’ll never see them anyway.
I made a full set of decals appropriate for a 53 foot Evans double door car too. Right now they are all black with a few white spots but I may change the color for the decals on the darker lower portion. I was thinking about making something close to the color of the aged white on the top half of the car. I’ve actually been mulling over the color of decals for weeks but can’t decide. The black decal sheet.
The white decal sheet complete with crop (cut) marks.
Jon.
