Weathering a Special Boxcar

Jason, aka "The Train Freak" and I are going to be shipping to and from industries on each other's layouts. He models the Cotton Belt in Arkansas, and I the Seaboard Airline in Richmond, Virginia. We have a couple of the same freight cars, one of the Cotton Belt and one of the SAL. We've each created waybills shipping a load of furniture from Y Junction, AR on Jason's layout to a goods warehouse on mine, and before we each filmed it, I thought it would be a good idea to weather mine.
I follow a lot of techniques I have learned from John Crowdis on JC's Rip Track, and I highly recommend checking his channel out.

For this weathering job, I just wanted a moderately faded look, as the car's build date makes it about 12 years old on my layout. I employed a dot fade over a satin clear coat to tone down the brightness and make it look like it has been in the sun for a dozen years. Next I gave it a gloss coat to seal in the fade and used a pin wash to bring out the details. Both of those methods employ oil paints. After that, I gave it a matte coat and airbrushed some acrylics for a light dusting of the trucks, wheels, underbody, and along the bottom of the sides and ends. Not a contest model, but it certainly gives a good bit of realism to an inexpensive Accurail kit!

You can check out Jason's "The Train Freak" channel here:
   / @thetrainfreak  

And here is a link to JC's Rip Track:
   / @jcsriptrack