01-18-2011, 08:51 PM
Sorry no pics yet but I didn't have much time to spend on the layout tonight - but what i did was crack open that gallon of mistinted paint I got at Home Depot and painted about 8 feet of the pink foam in the sort of dark brown color this paint is. To properly hide the lettering ont he foam it will take 2 coats, but in like 5 minutes I was able to improve the appearance of one section of my layotu by 500%.
I have that one Woodland Scenics scenery kit that makes up into a small diorama good enough to display a single loco or car - it has a cut, and a culvert under the tracks. I was tempted to grab the ground foam out of it and sprinke some on the wet paint but a) I want to finish that diorama and hopefully get some of this scenery stuff figured out, b) I plan to add some additional terrain maybe iusing a ground goop mixture so everything's not dead flat and c) I just read about the foam soaking up the paint color, I don;t want dark brown grass and weeds.
--Randy
I have that one Woodland Scenics scenery kit that makes up into a small diorama good enough to display a single loco or car - it has a cut, and a culvert under the tracks. I was tempted to grab the ground foam out of it and sprinke some on the wet paint but a) I want to finish that diorama and hopefully get some of this scenery stuff figured out, b) I plan to add some additional terrain maybe iusing a ground goop mixture so everything's not dead flat and c) I just read about the foam soaking up the paint color, I don;t want dark brown grass and weeds.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com