What I have is Valspar flat latex color Milk Chocolate, and Olympic flat black.
Both work fine. The Olympic is cheaper.
Most people think dirt is much darker than it really is.
You can take dirt into the store and have it color matched, if you like.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
I buy my paint at Lowes. Just make sure it's flat. The color should probably lighter than you think.
I'll get the brand I use when I get to the train room later today.
Phoebe Vet wrote: West Penn Nscale wrote: Phoebe Vet wrote:I like the Rustoleum imitation stone, brown for dirt and black for roads. It does eat foam, and takes a lot to cover the color underneath. My soulution is to first paint black or brown latex with a brush, then a thin coat of the Rustoleum over the top. It only takes a little because it doesn't have to cover the blue, and the latex protects the foam.I was looking at a can of Rustoleum stone just the other day.... do you add the ground foam on top of the stone paint ,,,, I do it in this order:Chocolate Brown latex with a foam brush.Rustoleum stone sprayed lightly. Just enough to add texture.Blended turfassorted colors of ground cover foam bushesSmall stones (yes, real stones from outside)Deadfall (real sticks from outside)small treeslarge trees.
West Penn Nscale wrote: Phoebe Vet wrote:I like the Rustoleum imitation stone, brown for dirt and black for roads. It does eat foam, and takes a lot to cover the color underneath. My soulution is to first paint black or brown latex with a brush, then a thin coat of the Rustoleum over the top. It only takes a little because it doesn't have to cover the blue, and the latex protects the foam.I was looking at a can of Rustoleum stone just the other day.... do you add the ground foam on top of the stone paint ,,,,
Phoebe Vet wrote:I like the Rustoleum imitation stone, brown for dirt and black for roads. It does eat foam, and takes a lot to cover the color underneath. My soulution is to first paint black or brown latex with a brush, then a thin coat of the Rustoleum over the top. It only takes a little because it doesn't have to cover the blue, and the latex protects the foam.
I was looking at a can of Rustoleum stone just the other day.... do you add the ground foam on top of the stone paint ,,,,
I do it in this order:
Chocolate Brown latex with a foam brush.
Rustoleum stone sprayed lightly. Just enough to add texture.
Blended turf
assorted colors of ground cover foam bushes
Small stones (yes, real stones from outside)
Deadfall (real sticks from outside)
small trees
large trees.
Hey, where did you get the chocolate brown latex? and what brand is it? My girlfriend and I went to Michaels and Home Depot today, and didn't really find anything that appealed to us.
So, am i to take it also that regular acrylic paints are OK for the blue extruded foam stuff?
The spray paint ground foam project worked very well over the weekend ....One problem ..... the Brown paint was to dark and made for a odd (fake looking base) ,,,, I will try a tan this weekend and hope it works no pics yet ,,,,,,,,,
Best Regards, Big John
Kiva Valley Railway- Freelanced road in central Arizona. Visit the link to see my MR forum thread on The Building of the Whitton Branch on the Kiva Valley Railway
West Penn Nscale wrote: Help ,,,, before I do something I will regret in 2008 ,,,,, I want to use a brown spray paint on blue foam then apply ground foam ,,, I guess this would be ok, as long as its not oil based???Thanks for the tips in advance Happy New Year Pat
Help ,,,, before I do something I will regret in 2008 ,,,,, I want to use a brown spray paint on blue foam then apply ground foam ,,, I guess this would be ok, as long as its not oil based???
Thanks for the tips in advance
Happy New Year
Pat
Ho Ho Ho, this reminded me after i sculpted a whole mountaim boad out of it. Sprayed it black base coat and boom!! i big melted(ish) table. My advise is to FIRST spray the foam with polyurathane, then the paint. it works!!
Hope this helps
As loathar notes in a posting above, the Krylon H2O paints are not flat or matte. They aren't exactly gloss either -- a sort of semi gloss -- so some matte medium brushed over it might be in order. Thus far I am having no problems since I am using it as a base color covered by ground foam, dirt, etc
Dave Nelson
Dave, just came back from art supply big box and found it today .... Krylon H2O Latex .... I am going to use this as a base on the foam and add ground foam.....I am also going to try the black stone look for the coal operation ...... This is my first big step into scenery .... I am going to use a little piece of foam as a test area....
Krylon now makes a line of spray paints that are water based and safe to spray on foam.
Their website has color chips. I first learned of this paint on these forums and now I see it is in all the hardware stores. I have tried it and find that it covers a bit differently than regular spray can paints -- a little tricky to really saturate a surface.
http://www.krylon.com/sprayyourway/h2oproducts/
Bob, I think I am going to try a combo, of your process for my general areas and black spray paint for my additional detail for my coal operation ....
Thanks for the info
I prefer to place the scenery materials on wet acrylic earth colored paint. This is a good base for the initial bonding of the scenic material. If you still want to use a spray, the American accents line is foam safe or any other acrylic base as well.
If I have an already colored base then I'll just brush on a thinned white glue or matte medium then ground foam.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Phoebe Vet,
Thanks for the pics, that looks great ...I would like to use black around the coal mine operation I am wanting to build this winter ....
Black Rustoleum stone over flat black latex.
Brown Rustoleum stone over flat black latex.
Brown Rustoleum stone over flat chocolate brown latex.
Ok, sounds like I great plan to start me off in the right direction in 08 .....
I had the woodland scence mat down on the foam ..... but was not happy at all with the look ,,,
thanks for the info
Plus I have been looking at this blue foam for THREE months ,,,,,, I need to start painting,,,,,
Back to Home Depot .... I know better ,,,, I am glad I asked first ..........
thank you