I think you’re like the Bob Ross of model railroading.

Another awesome little diddy Boomer. It’s all about the story of the scene !!

Absolutely love it! The tarp, the front spindle and the brake drum, along with the flat tire are all perfect tou8ches. BTW, the car is actually around 1958 Cadillac-ish. Superb.

Fun! I appreciate how you keep driving home about trying things. Art is subjective and everyone develops a style. I love your work but I also love my work and how I am inspired by yours. Cheers!

Incredible work. Just spectacular! Thank you for the privilege of letting us come along with you as your students.

Thanks Boomer! Awesome as always. I always enjoy and learn so much from you.

Once again all great content. I especially like when you inject your brand of humor when it's least expected as it adds to the enjoyment of the lessons. Only in American will you find a car thats so in your face and excessive that a bumper on a 59 caddy is as large as most European cars. The quintessential land yachts. Only fitting for another boat on the River Road. I spent my youth building model cars and honed my skills painting them to look like show models. It never occurred to me that one day I would be trying to make things look old and weathered. I think it might actually be more of an art form and a challenge to make things look like they have aged gracefully. I've really been enjoying myself, learning new techniques, thanks to guys such as yourself. Keep up the good work. They really are invaluable lessons. Happy rails

I could watch you work on stuff like this all day. Love your videos.

Great detail. Has the vibe of a 1957 Cadillac

Amazing work, as usual!....thank you for sharing...keep doing more videos!

It's all in the details. Thanks for sharing your techniques, Boomer. That blue tarp really pops draped over the faded yellow Caddy. And the abandoned Caddy looks great in your layout. Beautifully done.👏

Howdy Boomer! This is just... amazing! Soooo glad I found your channel. Lots and lots of knowledge for a newbie like me just starting down the model railroading rabbit hole. Your videos and I will become very well acquainted in the future lol. Really well done and thanks for sharing 🤠

I had total knee replacement of my left knee 5 days ago and have been falling behind on your videos intentionally in order to give me something to do while I’m laid up. Fantastic as always, thanks for the inspiration! Stay safe!

A masterclass in modelling and weathering, superb. Regards Stewart U.K.

Boomer, what a great little story for infront of the Slum Building, some poor lad, down on his luck, has had his pride and joy wrecked, but they can't bring themselves to get rid of it, and there it sits in its poor codition for all to see. Great techniques and tips. I want to try the wet on wet painting, but I have to wait for an eye condition to improve, and the docs say it is, but I can't see it yet. So, I have a new technique to look forward to. Cheers, and thank you for the inspirational video. Stay safe, Michael

Another great tutorial. You made the comment that most modelers apply to much paint. I confess that describes me. I need to focus on thinner and more layers of paint.

Ok, had to subscribe, just for the channel name, being a diorama building boomer myself. I went from model railroading to dioramas with a railroad element when I discovered that this (content) is what I enjoyed most. Thanks for the tips and encouragement.😊

Dusty would like her old spot back😆

Hey Boomer. Thanks to your regular encouragement I have adopted use of the airbrush, but not without a trip to the Emergency Room of my local hospital last night. I think the story is worth sharing, as according to my attending physician it is not that uncommon. It was about midnight and I was cleaning my airbrush after using it and got to the point where I backflush the device. For those unfamiliar with this procedure, after rinsing out the bowl and removing the bulk residue, you place several drops of water in the bowl, pull back on the lever to retract the needle, put your finger over the nozzle to block the air from discharging, and then press down on the lever to release the pressurized air. It’s easier than I've made it sound. I’ve done it many times without incident. However last night somehow my finger slipped and I felt the very slight pin prick and immediately let go of the lever, but it was too late. The column of 35 PSI air flow found the entry point into my body. This all happened very quick - instantaneously. It was a very strange sensation. I had this weird feeling, I mean I could feel the air shoot up my index finger and through my hand, following the path of my tendons according to my Doctor, all the way to my wrist. There was very little pain, maybe a 2 on that 1-10 scale, but definitely discomfort. As I rotated my hand and drew it closer to take a look I couldn’t believe the noise. I’m not kidding, it was a trip. If I just bent my finger in the least I could feel and hear what sounded like hundreds of miniscule air bubbles rubbing against one another. If you were sitting 5’ away from me you would have heard this weird noise, and I was feeling it inside me. I called the hospital and with great difficulty tried to explain what had happened to a triage nurse. She put me on hold while she spoke with a Doctor, who said I needed to come in. Nobody wants to lose any function in their hands, and as a guitarist I was particularly concerned about that. After struggling to explain what had happened to the nurse I decided to take the airbrush with me. I was seen promptly by the Doc. He examined me and could feel small air pockets in the palm of my hand, and hear the noise I talked about. I was surprised when he told me this was not an uncommon event. He explained there was nothing to be done, and that my body would naturally deal with the air. He told me this is sometimes serious, when the airbrush discharges an oil based solvent. I was back home about 1:30 AM, and when I awoke this morning my hand seemed to be back to normal. I won’t be backflushing my airbrush in this fashion any more.

Well Boomer... I would have to say this is one of your best vids, definitely in your top...🤔... ooohh...100+..👌😁. Great vid Boomer learned a lot. Thank you.🫡

I am not a modelrailroader or have anything to do with the hobby, but after a long day of work I just sit down and enjoy your work. You a wizard, keep the good work up!

Dear Boomer, once again, whether airbrush, washes or pin wash, such an awesome instructional video. Very interesting to see all the different steps have their function towards the finished model. Love the wheel knuckle you added. On the paper round I used to do whilst in high school, there was this guy who owned this kind of model as a former taxi cab. It was his ongoing project. Truly comes close to that remembrance, maybe only the tarp was green. But the amount of rust and paint fade is absolutely on point compared to my remembrance. Cheerio

Greetings From Colorful Colorado WJ, Another awesome Vlog from a Master Model Maker. Listening to and watching you continues to give me new prospective s on modeling. I wish I knew how to thank you more. Send you a bottle of Burnt Umbur? The car you did is a 1959 Cadillac. It was stolen in 1967 and later abandoned at the Slum Lord's parking lot after taking the engine. Everyone that lived there thought it was one of the tenant's car and the Slum Load didn't care. That cool old 59 Caddy belongs in that Hood. Enjoy, John

Cool. I live for the details.

so FUN to watch you work Boomer. Great job! I built Monogram models and Blue Box Athearns as a kid. You have helped me get excited about model railroading again, 40yrs later.

Awesome work Boomer! Spectacle and Lens wipes (the wet ones) are good for tarps, when you've finished cleaning your glasses! ... Cheers Les.

👌 👍👍👍 Artwork!

Absolutely superb, the car has hints of '58 Plymouth or Dodge.

Another awesome job!

I am in the Hobby since more than 50 years... Today I just watched an "unboxing video" from an 1:32 Dambuster Lancaster Plastic Kit (Price is ca. 800.- Swiss Francs). Now I am watching your video here. Well, I definitely enjoy your model building more! For me, it's the little things that make our wonderful hobby so great. Thank you for your motivation, greetings from Switzerland.

Amazing! I love this kind of detail. The tarp idea is brilliant. More, more, more!

Agree to use of Vallejo’s own thinner. Tamiya thins well with Ethyl alchohol.

The car turned out great! The tarp looks very realistic and it does look like there is some weight to it!

Turned out great! No coincidence that I'm currently building a speed shop / service station, and the parking lot will need some wrecks. Love the tarp!

Great stuff Boomer!

Well Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper might be your favorite painter (I will looked them up) but to me Boomer is my favorite: painter, tree maker, landscaping artist, evergreen brasher etc….An other masterclass from the master

Fantastic video yet again. Love the way the yellow colour turned out. A real New West special 😂

My newest favorite used paroles for kind of modeling like this: "Just BOOM It " :-)) ...Greetings and a big 👍❤, CHEERS from Olli

Nice work! The engine revving sounds cracked me up. I got into building model cars in my early teens and used to imagine the engine and exhaust sounds while building those components.

I fav this video, as it has so many tricks I can reuse or share with friends. Thank you! Can't wait to discover your next locomotive project! A SD38-2, perhaps? ;)

Thank you for sharing.

“…every model, in a sense, is a practice model for the next one” ❤

Brilliant!

Stunning.... I have my own thoughts/ideas but you covered them too 😂. If it has been me then one of the would have been off ( but that would mean scratchbuilding an 'inner' fender.. Front axle looks fine to me, especially with shading and 'rust' on it. No criticisms from me.. Yet another GREAT tutorial...

Ha ha ;-) I have a very similar tarped Vauxhall Cresta on my layout, the difference being I messed up the paint job! So the tarp is there for a different reason. After watching this I may revisit it

Good video nice work thanks lee

Superb Boomer!

Great video! What would happen if you pushed your hot knife into a quarter panel? A cool way to weather an old car is put IPA on top of Vallejo Model Air - looks like the car has been out in the sun too long and the paint is failing. For normal airbrushing with VMA, I use their Airbrush Flow Improver 71.562. Works great. Cheers! Bill.

You don't remind me of Bob Ross, but The Friendly Giant. Remember that kids' show on CBC, also on PBS in the states, back in the '60s? Friendly would do a voice over while you saw his hands placing the chairs for folks to sit in (dollhouse furniture of course). And he always played Early One Morning on the recorder. I've been watching a couple years, and I tell customers who come in to the hobby shop, who want to do realistic scenery, that they should watch your videos! Pretty sure the Vallejo has no alcohol. It would have a flame symbol on the label, plus it curdles Vallejo paints. Except that metallic paint they discontinued two or three years ago - that was alcohol based.

Looks great. I think you have a 58 Caddy there.

Looks like a Caddy to me.

Thanks!

Thanks

Now that is just too cool 👍🤠👍

I know what you mean by setting a few hours for this sort work I really enjoy spending an hour or two on weathering a freight car. I like the tarp idea and must try your wet painting methods.

I'm not feeling the windshield,but hey to each their own,still awsome.been sweet if it was a little charred up.nice work

Thanks! It reminds me of my first Plymouth LOL But yours looks like you just picked it up from the dealer, compared to mine 😂

Fantastic job again, the old car looks really run down - absolutely awesome (of course just as the whole layout)!🤩👌🏻 I subscribed to this channel sometime during the dinner series, but so far I have only been a silent viewer and a big admirer. However, I would like to give a very small tip😇: I also use heated blades or screwdriver tips for several jobs. However, I press the plastic part onto the sooty side of the blade (or the other way round), as it usually doesn't stick as firmly, the soot serves as a release agent, so to speak.😉 Cheers from Southwest Germany🍀🙌🏻

Each of these companies must be accompanied by a technical data sheet and shows each chemical. You'd be surprised how similar and readily available here locally rather than japan tamiya or spain vallejo I use windex for final clean just my .02 love from the lower mainland.

Laying in bed, watching your video, wife comes in and ask how i can watch this for 40 minutes, 😂😂😂 girls just don't understand! I could watch you do this for hours! Well, going down stairs to " piddle" with the layout, that's what she calls it, been married for 26 years! She doesn't bother me!!😂

That sedan needs an ho scale Dusty sitting on its roof.

boomer I have used Fantastic Kitchen cleaner to thin regular Vallejo paint and it works great. I have not tried it with Model Air with it yet. I have even used Fantastic to clean my air brush when I shoot acrylics. The project on the wrecked car was very cool. Why did I try Fantastic? I was out of Vallejo thinner. Like you said try stuff. Thanks

1958 Cadillac Series 62.

... One of the fenders...

A weird car, front looks like a 57 chevy with twin headlights from a 58 model, while the rear of the car is from a mid 50.s Caddy... Great modelling as usual!!!

I love how you think. I have a bunch of those Athern cars. I like the late 50s mopar wagon they made. Do you ever go on the 1/87 web site?

Thanks again, Boomer

I am brand new into model railroad but I love the scenery and the detail of good modeling. I want to get an airbrush and set up an indoor spray booth to help with fumes. It’s cold in NE Ohio. Are the tamiya fumes bad and how do you deal with them when spraying indoors or using ipa indoors. Thanks again. Love your content

You should all know that's a model of a 1958 Cadillac deVille. I think Irv Athearn must have owned one.

Watching this video, I'm struck by how nicely your acrylic washes seem to flow. I think you answered in the past (and apologize if this is a repeat) but do you typically add something to your water in order to make it flow better? If so, what exactly is it? I've tried dishwashing soap but that doesn't seem to work as well. As always, many thanks for your expertise and willingness to share with the modeling community!

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The Vallejo thinner appears to be some type mild form of ammonia / flow release / water solution. This makes sense too as ammonia can thin acrylics…even loosen them up, if hardened dry. Funny thing is Full Strength ammonia is extremely hard on your lungs . This is very far from full strength. So, diluted to this point - you almost don’t smell it. But always where a mask to protect your lungs. Other funny thing is that Full Strength Ammonia will weaken / eat at brass. Funny because airbrushes tend to have brass fittings and parts all over them. And yeah, start cleaning your airbrush over and over with full strength ammonia and you will likely damage parts. Very likely. I say this as I decided to really clean down an airbrush from some dried acrylic and destroyed my first airbrush….and because of that, I learned my lesson. 40years later….I would also say that even after cleaning down your airbrush with whatever acrylic thinner…before you set it down or end a session….do a good hard spray of clean water through it. Get all of the soaps or solvents out of it. You shouldn’t have issues arising next paint time. Cheers

Beautiful job on the car, I'll be on the lookout for a blue box like that. But what happened with the loco? Why no driver?

Would it have been better to paint the tarp before you crumpled it up? The diorama looks great.

Excellent as usual. My question is where did you find the model in the first place? Have you been holding on to it since childhood?

Hi Boomer, I'm really enjoying your videos! Can you give me a link to the site where I could get HO sedans, RTR shacks, etc

I have gotten to not liking Vallejo paint for air brushing, I find it too much of a bother to airbrush with. It does not like much more than 10-15 psi and because it does not like IPA it takes longer to clean out the brush. The selection of colours is so wide though.

What’s the story as to why the wreck is there?

cigarette - roll your own papers as well

Also! I gotta tell you that Walgreens stole your music! I’ve seen a new Walgreens advertisement online and I hear the music that I’ve come to know from your videos, but there’s no beautiful scale models, they are just trying to sell drugs lol.

😂This hobby mandates OCD !