Finishing that grey container wagon - part 2

Following on from last time, my original plan was to clip the silver container onto the wagon  (its overhanging sides grip the side of the container wagon well) and use the bottom of the container as a guide to apply the twistlock squares tight up under it. Then I could take the container off and paint everything neatly. 

Some .030 square plastic rod was cut into cubes for the twistlocks and applied with some PVA-ish glue but this wasn't going well, and the twistlocks looked too big.

So I popped the container off, removed the twistlocks, and glued the containers on permanently. Then went with .020 rod for twistlocks, superglued on. These looked much better.

A strip of .020 x .010 was applied to represent the under-rib on the side sill. 

This is what the wagon looked like after those mis-steps were re-steppped:

This all happened pretty quickly and some paint was lashed on - it turned out to be easy enough to paint the wagon sides grey without getting any on the containers. 

 In the above pic you can also see a brakewheel on each side (stolen from some less-attractive Marklin coal cars) and tiedown hooks (above the bogie bolsters) from the original red curtain car that donated its chassis for this project. On previous wagons, I've stuck the tiedown hooks 'out' a bit further and like this look much better. The protective bars around them have not been applied in this picture.

On the underframe, there is an airtank, a miscellaneous 'box', and the wagon data board stolen from the red cutrain-top.

The tiedown hooks, twistlocks and brakewheel rims were picked out in yellow, the buffers painted black, and the brown undersides painted dark gray except for the angled bits which are grey. The data board had a wash of dark grey added to try to remove some of the brown while hoping to retain the white printed wagon data.

In faked-up-action:

And finished with the protective bars around the tiedowns picked out in yellow, plus some weathering attached - a browny wash on the grey wagon to accentuate the sills and some brown and dark chalks on the containers. I accidentally blobbed some yellow paint on this side of my tanktainer, so had to cover that up with white paint (near the G in Den Hartogh). Whoops.

Overall I'm really pleased with how this turned out, and will make another one soon.