stucco

[snowey]

there's an article on here showing how to apply drywall compound to a building to represent stucco. I know somebody must have tried this, so did you try applying decals to it? How did they come out?

[Anonymous]

Snowey:

The process is called "parging". Both plastic and hydrocal stucco materials are available if you are building a structure.

There was an article posted on the online MR site some time ago. Alternately have a look at the Forum index or search the articles data base.

Randy

[dknelson]

I have seen these technique - cover the styrene with an art product called gesso
while it is still wet press another piece of styreme on top. let it set for a while then pull off. The gesso will look a little like stucco -- it might be "too big" but a little smoothing can give it a stucco like appearance.

Another old technique is to use fine sandpaper (possibly painted or sprayed with dullcoat to kill the little glisten that sandpaper gets).

Dave Nelson

[orsonroy]

Gesso or Modge-Podge will work better than drywall compound to replicate stucco. Even smearing on and teasing thick superglue would work better, considering how fine the stucco's texture would be in HO scale. (I'm of course assuming that you're modeling in HO. In O or G drywall compound might work OK)