Just about done with my Walther's Grain Elevator and needs some tip on making it look used, not falling a part. I will be painting it Tuesday with flat white paint, then installing the windows after I paint the frames. Main reason I have put off building the kite for 8 months now I will add.
I only have chalk, craft paint and dull coat to work with. My rolling stock looks OK. Main thing I want to avoid is brush marks.On the rolling stock not a big problem, casting details helps break them up.Walls on elevator are slick, so there could be a problem. Tips and pictures would help.
Next question is about making a dirt parking lot and road. The section where the elevator will go is on 2 inch foam. This will give you a little bite of a idea of the the area I am working with. Elevator that is in the picture is card board and beer cans wrapped in paper.
I know I can use drywall compound to make the parking lot and road, but it will be higher than the ground? Would that look odd? Or just mark off the lot and road and sand the foam to make ditches and lower the ground?
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Chalks shouldn't leave any brush marks and if you dry brush the craft paint applications, it shouldn't leave any either although a little streaking would be appropriate.
Cal
Hi!
I built one about 4 years ago, and painted it with a thinned out "boxcar red" that I mixed with testors or master builder paints. Then I streaked it with a "dirty wash". Eventually I took it off the layout as its footprint was almost too big for the space I had. Maybe it will work on the new layout I'm now building. My layouts are set in the '50s, and anything "worthy" of something called a parking lot (in the country at that time) usually had some stone spread over it to keep the mud down. Given all the farm truck and pick-up traffic in the area, this was a wise investment.
ENJOY,
Mobilman44
ENJOY !
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
Just a thought, but maybe a fin grade (smaller granuals) ballast would do the trick for a parking lot.
I used gray spaycan primer, white acrylic paint, black acrylic wash, weathered with chalk.
Dirt lot is tan laytex paint & gravel lot n scale ballast.
Before scenery
You might be able to use a fine textured spray paint for the surface of your parking lot. I tried some on a seprate piece of foam as an experiment and it looked pretty good for a fine gravel texture.
Have fun,
I got it built and painted, used a medium coat of almond of spray paint so some of the white shows but not much. After it was about all done, I found some problems with the kite? On the train side, seems they wanted me to fit a square peg in around hole for the the pipe to the cars? Then there was not holes for the braces to hold the pipe to the building? Hum, seemed odd, but we are modlers right?
After it was done, I saw I was missing a door? ( I bulit the main buliding and painted before I installed the windows and doors so I missed the missing door) Looked at the manual again, both the left and right side of my kit was the same, manual showed the windows and doors where not the same on the driffrent sides?
Seems they sent me two sides that where the same in the kit. There is quality control! Said and done, still not a bad kit, would be nices if they sent the right parts! Will be posting some PIC in the next WFP.
I changed the fill pipe on mine as I did not like the looks of the one that came with the kit. I left the doors off the drive thru & the door off the front. I built a floor and walls inside & added a figure.
This stuff here makes great dirt parking lot Ken, nothing like using the real thing.
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