Any suggestions on what to prime compleatly dryed hydrocal castings with? I'm back in the game after a few years and I can't remember what I used to prep plaster with for latex topcoats. Thanks.
How about...primer? I've used gray rattle-can primer from the hardware store when I want the result to be gray.
If I want a more brownish stone look, I go with Rustoleum's textured speckled spray paint. I don't use a primer.
These cobbles are from a home-made latex mold formed with plastic beekeepers's honeycomb. After the paint dried, I brushed on a thin India Ink solution, with several applications between the rails.
This "stone bridge" is actually the top of a tunnel portal. I made a latex mold of the original, too, so I could make a thinner casting. It's also using the textured spray paint with India Ink to highlight the details.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I use Rustoleum Painter's Touch 2X in either white or gray to prime (lightly) my hydrocal models.
Modeling an HO gauge freelance version of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Utah Railway around 1957 in a world where Pirates from the Great Salt Lake founded Ogden, UT.
- Photo album of layout construction -
Do you really need to prime hydrocal? I only used india ink washes 20 years ago, but plaster sucks in water based solutions.
Now there is one theory that you start with black and the paint progressively lighter colors. I have never had problems with black settling in to places where black is supposed to be.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Thankyou everyone. I'm gonna go with red rattle can primer because the castings are brick buildings. I'm definatly going to use up some of my textured paint on my stone castings. This was my first post as a new member. I can see I made the right decision to join. Beautiful work. Pretty excited about getting back in the game. It's funny. I've been collecting huge amounts of DCC 0n30 equipment for a layout build but now my grandson and I have decided to go old school and get out the lionels. Now I can use all of the three rail trains I've collected as well as my dad's and his dad's. Thanks again.
I just used washes.