Weathering A BN Caboose! Tangent BN WV Caboose

In this special video, I show how I went about weathering this highly detailed Tangent BN caboose.

[@GEVOlutionCPKC]

I definitely won't miss it🎉💫💫🚂👈🏽

[@Grainexpress]

Your a lifesaver Dan! Home with bad back trouble and was hope for a model RR video to pop up and better yet it is from you! Thanks Dan for giving me a little peace watching a weathering video! Take care!

[@robertschmidt6383]

Looks fantastic! Well done.

[@metalmike669]

I have several BN cabooses in N Scale. A couple of mine I plated over the windows for conversion to a modern day shoving platform. As worn out, weathered and most have graffiti on them these days, it allows more projects in my future!

[@eagleriverandkankakeerailr6042]

Great work as usual Dan.

[@KeeganPren]

Awesome. I’ll have to use these techniques on my CNW bay window cabooses in their later years as shoving platforms.

[@PhilBender612]

Nice work Dan. I have always loved the wide vision caboose as well.Denatured alcohol works really well for removing CA glue & residue. Just use lightly.

[@mikeberthold1593]

Yeah you're not kidding.... trying to find a wide vision Chicago Northwestern caboose is not easy great job on the weathering

[@tomstarcevich1147]

Looks awesome 👌 👏 👍

[@sernajrlouis]

Awesome work

[@NicholassTrainChannel]

Amazing work Dan. Caboose/guards van weathering is always good fun. The open window is a great effect. - Nicholas.

[@NarbonneGauchoBoingo]

Great job Dan, grew up in the 70’-80’s with these wide vision caboose on the Santa Fe here in SoCal. Love the BN colors too.

[@TheLEMRR]

looks great!

[@roydrink]

The end photo looks like the real caboose!

[@jamesnicholas7180]

Great work! Looks awesome. I always loved those cabooses.

[@RFMCabooseNP1713]

Fantastic job. I have purchased several of the Tangent models in NP. I will give the weathering a go.

[@joeraderblackrockcentralrr]

WOW. Turned out great

[@evanschaefer3812]

Looks amazing

[@andrewpalm2103]

Nice video, Dan. Up to now I've been using brushed acrylic washes (using windshield washer fluid as the thinner) for fading, using a color slightly tinted up from the original. However, I'd like to try using my airbrush for this step as you do. What is the ratio of paint to thinner you use with craft paints? I might also use thinned VMA. And I'm guessing you are also using a lower air pressure for that thinned paint. What is it for your Paasche? Thanks and cheers from Wisconsin!

[@majikglustik9704]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@Mr6017]

What color are you using for the grime? It looks great

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Nice work. Are you still looking for a C&O 903180 20TH ANNIVERSARY cab?

[@DansRailroad2011]

Y E S!

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

@@DansRailroad2011 well one popped up on eBay last week. It has no box, the top of one ladder is gone (they tried to fix it with ca) and the chimney is a little bent. But it was really cheap and wouldn’t last. I’ll let you have it if you do a video on it, no time pressure of course.

[@w.rustylane5650]

If you cannot see what you're doing, then why bother showing a video. I'd like to see what you're doing.