Sorry for dropping off the radar again, from October 2015 to just about March 2016 projects got put on hold. Now we are ready to go.
One thing I have noticed with the train cars we have for our layout is that they are either black, white or brown. Remembering when we had our friend and her 4-year old grandson visit, he was very excited to see the Cookie Monster graffiti on one of our boxcars. I wanted to create a brightly coloured train car with large graffiti.
I wanted to try my hand at hand-painting one so I decided to use one of my Grand Trunk Western box cars.
I then masked off the road numbers text. (Later, I can paint over them if I find the correct decals). I then painted the sides and inside with turquoise paint.
Next I painted the roof, rails, ladders and end panels black.
I then painted the NYC Logos. (Once again, decals would have had sharper detail but I enjoyed the challenge of painting.)
Finally, I painted the graffiti.
I Still need to purchase metal wheels and Kadee couplers, but it was a fun project to do.
Decided to take some photos outside. Yesterday we got slammed with some snow and we are under a Snowfall Warning for tonight, another 10-20cm is in the forecast. Yuck.
Mary was so impressed, she decided to take a photo herself. Here is a Marshmallow Man she painted a couple of years ago and put it with the train car. :)
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