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Beautiful!

Did you get the fonts from Letterhead Fonts Company?

Good eye Ray - I did!

Making a little bit of progress - things have been really busy lately.  A family reunion in Missouri.  Classes started for the semester and I've got my heaviest teaching load ever.  Major project deadlines at my day job.  Lots of excuses...

So far everything is done with various washes of oil paints.  I'm not very satisfied yet, but we shall see.

How much more you do would depend on the level of weathering you want. The car currently looks as though it's been in service for about a year. Everything is nice and subtle. Anything more than a few dabs of weathering powders could be a gamble.

Given your real life commitments, you might want to invest your limited time in a new model, maybe one that begins with weathering effects prior to assembly.

Besides, we rarely find our models satisfactory until we haven't seen them for a couple of months.

Russ

All good thoughts Russ.  I haven't decided how far to take things, or to put it another way, how new or old the car is supposed to be.  I figure I'll know it when I see it if that makes sense.

I have a couple of other projects in the works, but all of them have stalled because of my dissatisfaction with my painting skills.  This boxcar has been a useful test bed for a couple of techniques.  I envy the armor, aviation, and naval modelers because there are so many options for weathering metal surfaces.  I find painted wood SO much harder - at least for me. Part of the challenge is also the effort per part I'm willing to invest.  Chuck Done has clearly mastered the art of weathering wood and I'm looking for methods that approximate his perfection, but with a level of time and effort that I reconcile with building a rolling stock inventory of 15-20 cars.  In this lifetime!

Another progress shot.  At this point I've just applied some basic color variation before starting with wear, dirt, soot.