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QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen Hi gang, I couldn't find this topic last night at midnite and I was too tired to hunt for i beyond the 3rd page. CW your roads do look really good, I still haven't figured out how to weather mine. Matt - I especially like the light-blue trolley on the right! You're amassing quite a collection of those now, eh? Carl - I really like those signals in your photo, I'll have to add that to my ToDo list (behind a gazillon other things) for my own pike! Ray - that new trainroom looks like it's off to a great start! polzi - that wall looks great to me, especially compared with your 'before' shot at the bottom. My garage walls are covered with shelving [and the CFO insists on keeping them] so I had to stick 2" blue MDF sheets vertically in the center of my 'island' layout. Which brings me to my topic: Over the past week I've been painting-on 'trees' - or should I say, splotches of green paint that resemble the edge of a forest. I remember seeing cheese3 do this on his layout, he said he got the idea from watching a TV artist named Bob Ross. As for me, I did landscape oil paintings this way during my college days. Anyhow, this was a cheaper solution than buying several hundred dollar$ worth of Woodland Scenics foilage clumps - especially since I had a leftover $60 coupon for my local Home Depot, might as well put that to good use! Here are some of the materials and tools I used: Medium and light shades of green latex paint (also black which isn't pictured), a round 1" brush, a natural sea sponge to apply paint for the 'foliage' effect, and a disposable paint roller tray for pre-squeezing excess paint from the sponge. The next three photos illustrate my forest-painting technique on a sample chunk of MDF. One of the reasons I chose to paint my own backgrounds instead of buying the pre-printed variety, was so I could position where I wanted to have any 'openings'. In the following image of the model town of East Minister, I needed a gap where the highway 'disappears' into the backdrop. I added a bluish-green-gray 'treeline' in the background to finish off the scene: Wish I could've shown more, but this is the only area not covered with tools and construction debris!
Adam Thompson Model Railroading is fun!
QUOTE: Originally posted by cheese3 ken that came out great!!!!!!!!
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QUOTE: Originally posted by loathar CW-Those are the best looking roads I've ever seen! MR did an article last year on weathering roads but they painted the wheel tracks a darker color. You got it right!. If you look at a real road, it's the center part of the lane that gets dark.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!