Ken Brunt said:
Looks purty darn good to me…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Thanks Ken I am breathing a sigh of relief that the special spray paints did not eat up all the carefully stacked and carved Styrofoam. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
tom
Tom, what the lady said is true for most spray paint, and she was just trying to be helpful. But the new latex and foam safe spray paints are, um, foam safe.
Looks like you are making progress. Maybe a light wash of a darker colour to make the rocks pop, and a little but of green algae here and there on the rocks. Its just a suggestion.
David Maynard said:
Tom, what the lady said is true for most spray paint, and she was just trying to be helpful. But the new latex and foam safe spray paints are, um, foam safe.
Looks like you are making progress. Maybe a light wash of a darker colour to make the rocks pop, and a little but of green algae here and there on the rocks. Its just a suggestion.
Thanks David. Good ideas on finishing up the rocks as well. Doc Tom
It’s coming along nicely!
i’m just sitting and shaking my head…
spraypaint with texture in it…
what will they find out next? gras-textured paint with pop-up daisies in it?
the color- and texture effects look really cool.
if it were my layout, i would try to re-do the vertical cracks a little bit. at the moment they look a little uniform. or are you going to break the uniformity with vegetation?
dandelions.
Time for a little more color. The hills around here, as I noted earlier, are composed of limestone capped by sandstone.
It was time to bring some color to the sandstone I had carved from the blue foam. I dry brushed on umber,a variety of browns, orange and white.This was all blended by an India ink wash to try and represent sandstone rocks and ledges.
The tan brown areas on the layout are where “the forest floor” will be affixed later.
Let me know what you think.
In a few days I’ll start working on some highlights on the limestone.
Doc Tom
Looking good so far Doc. I figure the limestone highlights will get some of the gray tone into it. Amazing detail so far(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Looking good Tom.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Thanks Ron and Dave. Yes dry brushed grays to follow in a few days on the limestone. Also “ice falls” will be modeled as well to break up the monotony of the large cliffs. Ice falls are frequently seen around here in the winter as water trickles through the limestone and freezes on exposure to cold air.
Doc Tom
Tonight I did some work with painting limestone on the “Kit Creek” side of the layout.
The tan brown areas are where the wintertime forest will be planted.
Thanks for your input. Doc Tom
Thank you Ron and Ken for looking in on this little corner of the “Large Scale” world.
Doc Tom
Well in the recent posts I went from a blue cube to some painted rocks. Now the layout looks like a camouflaged Aircraft Carrier with a flat deck. I need to bring some 3-D changes to the top of the layout.
To do that I will use some of the many scrap pieces of Blue Styrofoam leftover from the beginning of the construction. These will ultimately form small hills to break up the flat deck look.
These scrap pieces will be cut carved and fitted.
Before permanently fixing them to the layout I will adjust to allow for clearances of railroad equipment. This was something fairly difficult to do in the past with plaster scenery.
Thank you again for following along. Doc Tom
You got my interest.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
I see the resemblance to the aircraft carrier.
Tom Grabenstein said:
Thank you Ron and Ken for looking in on this little corner of the “Large Scale” world.
Doc Tom
I’ve got an 0n30 switching layout myself so I find this corner of the world interesting as well…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Ric Golding said:
I see the resemblance to the aircraft carrier.
May look like a golf course soon(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif) with bunkers and small hills to run logging lokies around. Tom
Ken Brunt said:
Tom Grabenstein said:
Thank you Ron and Ken for looking in on this little corner of the “Large Scale” world.
Doc Tom
I’ve got an 0n30 switching layout myself so I find this corner of the world interesting as well…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Do you have any photos you could post to this part of LSC ?? Tom(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
