Detailing Walthers Hot Metal car

Last night I finished one of my bottle cars. I installed end grabs and coupler lift bar. The lift bar I made from .00010 wire, I followed the design pictured on the cover of the "Bethlehem Steel Railroading" book for this particular car.



Here are a few pictures of another car that I did using a lift bar that goes from side to side. This car was weathered by painting the trucks Floquil "roof brown", and surface areas facing up. Next I sprayed on light layers of Floquil "rust", the dark patches in various areas are made from standard craft acrylic dark brown paint.

The skull on top is done by gluing on "Highball" ballast, once dry I painted it first to the color of the bottle car, then Floquil "graphite" at the top. This is to represent fresh spillage.