I have been weathering mainly HO Scale model trains since 2009 for fellow modelers and family. I specialize in freight cars, especially rust buckets. I do anything from light to heavy weathering using a variety of different mediums, sometimes three or four on a single car. I take care with models, therefore a model may take me a week plus. Please check out my work here on my page. My price varies as to how much weathering is requested. I will also for an extra labor and parts charge change out couplers and wheels. My fees and hours are on the "contact me" tab.
This new addition is now finished and in service on the layout. This is an Accurail kit of a 50′ plug door boxcar, lightly weathered using pigments and washes. ACI plates and lube stencils were added along with new wheels and couplers: Continue reading
With just some detail parts and one billboard sign to be added, the layout I believe is pretty well finished! I hope to eventually add one more caboose, either an N8 or a transfer caboose plus one or two beat up dented gondolas that two manufacturers are coming out with next year I believe. Here… Continue reading
Well, I finally got around to installing the rest of the power lines to poles on the layout as shown below, using the great product by EZ-Line. Now I just have to be careful uncoupling cars….!! Continue reading
Well, we’re back to work the next day, another fortune first trick shift. Today it’s the crew of myself, Jimmy, Dan, and Charlie as engineer. We’ve got our work cut out for us today, as we’re finishing up yesterday’s work plus switching Monsanto. First, after breakfast at the diner across the tracks, we fire up… Continue reading
Well, we’re back at work this time on first trick again working a few cars out of Riverside yard. Our crew today is Fred as engineer, myself as brakeman, Jimmy the conductor, and Dan as flagman. After firing up 8806 we’re going to pull off the tank car of fuel oil and spot it in… Continue reading
Added to the layout the past several days are these detail items: multiple pipes added to the set of tanks shown below at Monsanto Chemical, another derail and derail sign added on the siding to Sullivan scrap, and coming soon from Scale Signs, the signs shown below, which one will go by the siding into… Continue reading
Please notice the YouTube icon at the bottom of my homepage and click on it to open up my new channel, which has two videos currently but hope to be adding more! Continue reading
Here’s another car of ten I’m still working on, which takes awhile with heavier weathering, as I do the weathering in layers. On to the next one to finish which is an N&W boxcar, plus an LVRC boxcar: Continue reading
The local out of Riverside yard has shown up with our next inbound cars, which looks like a gondola for Sullivan scrap, tank cars for Monsanto, and a wood chip boxcar for Armitage Furniture. Stay tuned as we work these soon. In the meantime, we’re working on spotting tank cars at Monsanto from the holding… Continue reading
I’ve added a new video, my first actually of action on the layout! You’ll find it here on the home page under my podcast video. Hope you enjoy it but excuse the big arm in the video….:) Continue reading
The Weathering Depot 