Custom painted CP Rail Cylindrical Hoppers

Were those the Atlas O Undecorated ACF 3-bay cylindrical hoppers? 

No, they were Wayne's Feed yellow cars, I used 600 grit sandpaper and wet sanded the lettering off and used Testors 1233 Flat Light Aircraft Gray to prime then scalecoat paint.  I did not strip the paint off, I found wet sanding the lettering off was easier.

I did the same thing last year painting two RailKing cylindrical hoppers in the green Saskatchewan grain hopper scheme.  I used a combination of sandpaper and a fiberglass eraser pen to remove all of the lettering and markings and painted with ScaleCoat paint.  I got the decals online and the cars turned out terrific.  I don't have pictures and the cars are stored away right now (layout is waaaaayyyyy too small!).

Rolland

Nice!!

Nice job. Canadian road names are my favorite.............Paul

Those look really great!!!

Bob

Nice work!!!!! good to see custom work.

Thanks for positive feed back, Canadian road names are my son's favorite and starting some New England road name boxcars now.  Something very satisfying doing custom work,  we are trying to decide on a engine now, maybe a GP9, GP38 or GP40 in Bangor and Aroostook solid blue color, found the decals in a file with my Lionel catologs.  Looking for a engine at a good price that makes it worth while repainting it.

Just ordered 8 MTH York Boxcars at a great price for more custom work.

Looks like we need to start a post with custom work fellow Forum members have done, if there isn't one already.

George

proto-typical or not they came out great, look right and will add some variety to your unit train.