Walthers Work Flat

[cnrglen]

Working my ay through a number of projects that I've left unfinished for the past year or so. I bought a Walthers Work flat kit at a swap meet last year. I already had one that was built stock:
   

But I wanted to up the new ones game a bit.

   

I replaced the cat-in corner grabs with wire, then I weathered the deck with a series of grays, tans and washes. 

   

I painted the rest on the car in boxcar red and gave it a single number since it's for my logging line. I still used the original gondola sides but I weathered and painted them.
I found the car was a bit on the light side so I used some stick-on weights and hid them under a stack on ties.

   

After that I replaced the cast coal/ gravel pile with woodland scenics ballast, The plastic barrels with some wood kegs of spikes, and some hand tools.

   

It needs it's final weathering yet.

[Charlie B]

Very nicely done. A great addition to your fleet. It looks like it is right at home.  That's a good idea hiding the weight under ties, you could hide some in the ballast as well. 
Charlie

[tompm]

Looking good!

[cnrglen]

Thanks guys. I'm waiting to finish two other rolling stock projects before I add the weathing to the flat. Coming soon.

[cnrglen]

I finished off the work flat this evening:
   

A mix of several weather paints and a bit of dry brushing to put some miles on it.

     

I faded out the number lettering with some polly-s dirt. The trucks are taken aparts and weathered, then reassembled on the car for the final touches.

   

I added both standard gauge and narrow gauge ties to the car since my logging RR runs both gauges.

[tompm]

Great looking flat! Nice job.

[Genetk44]

I really like that….I didn’t know there was a kit available now. I scratchbuilt one about 10 years ago…I’ll tryand find a pic of it.