the fun and sloppy part is done!...mixing paint-tinted sculptamold, applying it with a spatula and wet fingers! I tinted the sculptamold because this is an Ntrak module and is subject to knocking and it's more than likely that they're will be a chip or two, here and there...no bare sculptamold revealed... the colors look a little 'stark' right now, but that will change with colors, washes, greenery, talus, etc....you'll notice piece of blue foam 'rocks' planted in the wet sculptamold...theres will get a paint and wash treatment. thanks for looking...carving the rock comes next! ~Bruce
Weathering Aide I am having trouble making those straight lines for streaking when I am weathering cars. I made this to help in that endeavor. Patent applied for. H0 scale on the left; N scale on the right.
sun is setting on a full day... sculptamold is dry in most places, so I started to experiment with carving....I found my Dremel engraving tool very helpful; makes the process fast and easy... Tomorrow, I'll finish carving, then start tinting the rock and slopes with various tints and washes... Thanks for looking, ~Bruce
Just off the workbench - Power Car PGE 990281 has joined the MOW fleet: A big thank you to friend and fellow TB member Greg Kennelly who laid out most of the decal artwork, and Jeff Briggs who printed them and weathered the car. I also purchased the other five road numbers for the Prairie Shadows BCIT bulkhead flatcars, and cut down the RH side ladders to match the first one I did. paint touch-ups, deck re-painting and weathering are next. Tim
got up early this morning to get some texture and glue on so I can color the purple foam 'rocks' this week...ballast, talus, and final vertical rock painting (I'm going to represent the sedimentary layers with airbrushing and masking)... that gives me the last week for details and nit-picking...I'll add a bit more green, especially in the foreground to mark this area.... Thanks for looking, ~Bruce
Here is what has been on my workbench for the last couple days. He has been weathering cars and making billboards. Mike
Hello all...last update for the weekend...done as much as I'm going to get done until middle of the week...put a few bushes in, and drybrushed the foam 'rocks'... still a lot more to do, especially with the talus and vertical rock face (many painted sedimentary layers with predominant red colors)... but, as you can tell, the last 7 hours of work has produced an amazing amount of change... still to do... paint the skyboard with lighter shades of blue, then background scenery talus field Red rock faces and sedimentary layers ballast then, a little tweaking and we're on our way to Round Rock/Austin! Thanks for looking! ~Bruce
I am going to see this in Round Rock! I can't believe you are painting this and not staining or using washes. You must be an artist.
This thread is supposed to be about what's on your workBENCH, not what's on your benchWORK, but Bruce is cheating... Love it... so I'll cheat too..... I have this dilemma, about how to make my ATSF mainline disappear into L.A. staging. Working based on a prototype location, in San Bernardino flatlands, I couldn't just put a tunnel in the wrong place, so the tracks have to disappear behind the Pacific Electric overpass and a bunch of trees. I devised a set of view baffles, set in parallel, with trees painted on....spent a nice Sunday afternoon trying to make the trick it work. I hope when other scenery is in place, it will all blend in... Regards, Otto K.
There is some great scenery work here, makes me want to paint up a BNSF engine. Almost finished with BNSF #7768 ES44DC in it's "What if BNSF did Heritage units."
thank goodness for another beautiful weekend in coastal Alabama...heading into the last few laps on this one.... a quick airbrush coloring of the slope and vertical rock face over a cup of coffee...then some posing and final positioning of the 'mechanicals'... and then... quickly before we run out to do a few errands, the part that has the most effect apart from the ballast; the talus field....this is AZ Rock and Mineral Apache stone and Cajon Sandstone Rip Rap... Alcohol to wet, and scenic cement to fix... after a cookout of charbroiled oysters and lime-chili charbroiled Royal Reds....I'll tackle the ballast! ~Bruce
