What is your favorite facia color and why?

[Anonymous]

MEC Pine Green, or maybe Pullman green.  Prototype colors and it looks good on our Club Modular layout (NMRA judges thought so too).

[farrellaa]

this is what I wound up with for my facia. I had some sample paints (HD $2.89 jars) and liked it. I added the grey strip to accomodate some 'obstructions' during construction and liked it as well so now I am putting the narrow band all around. Just looked good to me.

    -Bob

[rrebell]

Very brave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[John Busby]

Hi all

I use a boring grey colour the idea being that people will look at the layout not the boring grey facia

regards John

[gfewster]

It is about that time for me to paint my facia and would like so see some examples and opinions as to why that color was chosen.

The basic color of my scenery (plaster) is a good grade of flat acrylic, color matched at the paint store to Floquil earth.  In some places, particularly on steep slopes, this brown shows through gaps in the green ground foam.  This effect looks good to me.  The layout facia is tempered hardboard/masonite, and is brush painted with the same brown paint.  First the facia is glued (carpenters yellow glue) to the layout framework, clamped, but with no screws or nails, for a uniform surface.  The joints are finished before painting. One caution is that I have seen a wide variation in the surface of tempered hardboard.  The harder and smoother the better.  I have seen some that has the surface texture of a sponge, and needless to say, that does not look good as a facia.  Dark green or black also seem to be reasonable choices, but I have been looking at this brown for about 10 years now and it still looks like the best choice to me. As mentioned, trying different colors is easy and repainting later is not that big a deal.

 

Gordon Fewster

Ontario Soutnern Railway

Hendersonville, NC

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[rrebell]

Unfortunately I will get one shot at this as my scenery goes over the edge of the masonit, which by the way I put on with a comercial staple gun I had lying around. I will have to be super carefull as it is to make the top edge look good.

[Medina1128]

I, too, went with a dark green. The human eye is automatically drawn to lighter colors. This draws the attention the layout, not the fascia.

[rrebell]

The more I think about it, black is the way to go for me and with a cloth backdrop, it will hide the unfinished garage, now if it wasn't all set up for stage lighting (it is almost all track lighting), it might be different.

[trainnut1250]

rrebell

The more I think about it, black is the way to go for me and with a cloth backdrop, it will hide the unfinished garage, now if it wasn't all set up for stage lighting (it is almost all track lighting), it might be different.

 

 

Yep,

Back in Black here.  Use the eggshell finish to avoid scuffs.

 

 

 

 

Have fun,

 

 

Guy

[rrebell]

Eggshell is what I was thinking. How do you like the eggshell finish, any problems if you have to do a touchup?????????

[trainnut1250]

I haven't used the eggshell.  I went with flat and it scuffs like crazy.  Many of my friends use the eggshell and like it a lot.  They made the suggestion after I was finished painting (of course!!)  Don't know about touch up....

 

Guy

[bing&kathy]

To hold it, I hot glue clothespins to the inside bottom lip of the fascia every 10" or so. These can be painful reminders on the noggin if you're not careful, so other ideas about doing that could be helpful.

I too am going to use the weed cloth under my fascia. As I am using steel studs, magnets in the cloth will hold them on and allow them to be removed quickly and easily.

[Kyle]

Steven S

Here ya go.  I used the eyedropper tool to sample the sand color and darkened it for the second one.  The third one is the sand color.

I don't recall whose layout it is.  If anyone recognizes it, let me know. 

 

Steve S

 

For desert scenery, I like the tan color (last photo).  On layouts were the scenery is mostly green, I like a green color.  The reason why is because I feel it blends in with the scenery and therefore makes it seem more realistic, and larger. The ceiling as long as it is a light color is ok.  Unless you model night all the time, the lighter ceiling makes it brighter like the sun is out.