New boxcar from Rapido

[mu26aeh]

Rapido posted on their YT channel these have arrived and will be shipping soon

[ljudice]

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Hmmmm.... lighting?

[dem34]

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Hmmmm.... lighting?

Pre-faded for weathering. Its fairly close to how they look in current lumber service.

[ljudice]

cool, thanks!

[Philip H]

This one is form a decade ago, and close to the one Rapido has released:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3041628

[Tristan Ashcroft]

Looks like I might have to add 1 or 2 to the fleet.  I took this picture at the Gettysburg & Northern interchange track off the CSX Hanover Sub

I'm late to the party, but just chiming in to note that a lot of SP 50 ft boxcars - double door and wide single door - have been coming east (Pennsylvania and New York are where I've made most of these sorts of observations since 1976) for the whole life span of this prototype.  I suppose one good reason is lumber and timber products.  There were plenty of reasons why SP was poor by the 1990s, and this is probably a small one, but it probably didn't help their bottom line that they owned a lot of freight cars that spent a long time on empty return trips, and in a service that I assume didn't have the greatest efficiency of equipment use.

In the early 1990s, a lumber yard in Cortland, NY - for example - would get a single SP 50 ft boxcar delivered every so often, then take their sweet, sweet time unloading it.  It seemed like they were using it as a warehouse annex.  The cars would usually linger at the loading dock for a couple or even a few weeks before they'd finally leave again.

[mu26aeh]

The one I photographed in Gettysburg was off to an International Paper plant with a load of paperboard or similar product

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Mine arrived today. Pretty nice cars from my quick look.

They definitely need some dullcote though.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

So check this out.

I tried Tamiya Flat Clear (since I'm trying to wean myself of Dullcote).

Check out what it did to the one roof.

It's fine. I'm gonna weather the car, but beware.

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[bbussey]

I like airbrushing the Dullcote in a jar.

Waiting for them to appear at MBK.

[peteski]

I even put my reading glasses on, but I'm not sure what the problem is.  Is it the car with the silver roof in the back?  It seems that some brown color is showing through the silver. Is that it?  A close-up photo of the problem would have made things clearer.

Tamiya acrylic paints are alcohol-based, so it is possible that it can attack the paint on the model.  If the fairly mild Tamiya paint caused an issue, I suspect that Dullcote (which uses stronger solvents) would have also affected the silver paint.

Why are you trying to wean yourself of Dullcote?  The brushable stuff in glass bottles seems to still be widely available. You can brush it on or apply (thinned or unthinned) with an airbrush.

[dem34]

End of the day with a lot of pojects that don't need a fine coat a rattlecan is just convenient. And most hobby shops have the Tamiya Flat Clear on hand while my stock of Dullcote is also dwindling and I'm in the same boat.

It seems less like the Silver paint is dissolved and more like whatever its made out of reacted with a Pinkish crazing effect. Similar to what happens when Dullcote contacts Alcohol more than anything. But that is usually a stark white haze.

[peteski]

Rattle can?  I saw a jar if Tamyya paint in the background so I assumed that was the clear flat.  But if Ed used Tamiya spray can, then that (pungent) paint is probably as "hot" (or hotter) as Dullcote.

I guess since I like to use airbrush for everything, I just assumed that the flat coat was either brush painted or airbrushed.  To be honest, Ed provided very sparse info in hos post.

PS We have here another perfect example of the famous "TRW thread drift". 

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Yep. Sorry.
1. I used a rattlecan because it's just quicker and easier for stuff like this.
2. Yes, the issue I had is that some of the silver paint has thinned, exposing the red underneath. It looks like the software crushed that file down to make it somewhat difficult to pick out.

Again, not a big deal, but something to keep in mind when dulling these cars (which you absolutely have to).

[squirrelhunter]

Another point for Tamiya vs Dullcote in cans or airbrushed- Tamiya spray cans have vastly better nozzles (compated to most rattle cans) that put on a fine coat without the setup time for an airbrush.

Ed, how thick of a coat did you put on? I have noticed if it ends up pooling/puddling it very slightly deformed the lower sill of an MT sleeper I was weathering. I have also had that happen where I screwed up my masking and had Tamiya paint pool on the side of a boxcar I was painting.

I've found using a couple very light coats seems to give best results.