08-15-2010, 02:19 PM
Thanks Mister Nutbar... this morning, I am working on the concrete slabs on the bayou banks. For now, I am only doing the ones immediately below the bridge. Although I was able to model the bridge pretty much as the real thing, I am going to have to selectively compress the entire scene to get it to fit. There is a road bridge on the aisle side of the layout, it will eventually get concrete slabs under it too, so for now, it will just be blue foam in that area, to the left of the slabs in the photos. Needless to say, i am using a little "modeler's license" on the slabs below the bridge - not looking for an exact match, just the "overall spirit" of it.
First, a base coat of concrete color made from white, gray, and antique white craft paint. Although it took a few batches of the paint mix to cover the slabs on both sides of the bayou, I didn't have an exact formula for the paint color. At this point, a little color variation is a good thing. Also, all of the brush strokes need to be vertical, running from the top of the slab down the slope to the bayou. You want a little textured streakiness here, so that the washes will make little tiny streaks heading down likerun-off water, and then the weathering powders later on will do the same thing.
Then, going by the prototype photos, the area directly under the bridge is tinted a light rusty color from the run-off coming down the rusty bents. Did that by adding a dilute wash in that area.
Next, put a brown wash over everything:
And then a black wash, in the control joints and in certain areas as per the proto photos:
Next will be a spray with dullcote to fix what is done, this will allow more washes over the existing without messing the layers already there.
First, a base coat of concrete color made from white, gray, and antique white craft paint. Although it took a few batches of the paint mix to cover the slabs on both sides of the bayou, I didn't have an exact formula for the paint color. At this point, a little color variation is a good thing. Also, all of the brush strokes need to be vertical, running from the top of the slab down the slope to the bayou. You want a little textured streakiness here, so that the washes will make little tiny streaks heading down likerun-off water, and then the weathering powders later on will do the same thing.
Then, going by the prototype photos, the area directly under the bridge is tinted a light rusty color from the run-off coming down the rusty bents. Did that by adding a dilute wash in that area.
Next, put a brown wash over everything:
And then a black wash, in the control joints and in certain areas as per the proto photos:
Next will be a spray with dullcote to fix what is done, this will allow more washes over the existing without messing the layers already there.
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