Western Maryland 70ton Hopper

[surlyknuckle]

A few years ago, I picked up a 3-packer of the Atlas Trainman hoppers for a whopping $30. Probably didn't need 3, but here is one after some decal work, and weathering to bring it up to the early 80s:



Nevermind the non-Kadee couplers, and the trucks. The real cars rode on 70 ton roller bearing trucks with 5 springs. To use anything other than the Atlas truck requires bolster modifications that I'm on the fence about deciding it being "worth it" on just a Trainmen line car. So for now, I just weathered the trucks like the rest of the car.

Here is another car from the 3-pack, un touched. This is what I started with:



I should probably mention that I do not own an airbrush. The weathering was a mixture of Polly Scale roof brown, Grimy Black, plus Burnt Sienna oil paint. This was, of course after adding re-weigh data, wheel dot, lube stencil, and ACI label.

Thanks 'fer looking.

[nebrzephyr]

Nice job!

Bob

[marknycfan]

great looking car. Do you just brush paint the patches and add new data?

[surlyknuckle]

Thanks. The patches are made from Microscale black trim-film. The two most useful colors I've found to be have been black and caboose red.

[slowfreight]

Pretty cool. Wheel dot, lube plate, and ACI panel. That car's got it goin' on.