I been trying to put a back drop for little scene it is 18 inch deep 63 inches long and 16 inch from the ceiling here is a link to the photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/icr140/7916776652/ . The town I 'm still building setes in the Mt’s of New Mexico not a good drawer so any ideas?
Clouds, spray painting by Lowance RMC Mar86 p.63
“The Clouds” Walthers Part # 519-1, p. 369 Walthers 2004 HO Scale
At one time, Lowrance marketed a stencil for painting clouds:
“The Clouds” Walthers Part # 519-1, p. 369 in Walthers 2004 HO Scale Reference All scale, $9.98, not currently in stock at Walthers. Sold by a company that used the name of Lowance’s railroad, “New London.”
Lowrance described in the clinic how to make your own stencil. Find a color slide with a nice cloud shape, (are you old enough to remember when there was such a thing as color slides and slide projectors?) project image onto sheet of poster board, cut off shape of cloud with all little indentations along edges.
I just TORE irregular shapes in posterboard to make shape of EDGE of cloud (not worrying about making shape of whole cloud.) Then I spray using different parts of the stencil to make different parts of edge of cloud, not attempting to paint entire cloud at once. It is the overlay and soft transitions that create the effect. I do NOT want a hard like stencil of lettering, but put the stencil a fraction of an inch away from sky surface for the TOP of the cloud which gets the HARDEST edge. I spray along edge of stencil so I get a sharper harder white shape and then it softens out toward what will become middle of cloud. That harder edge represents where sunlight hits the top edge of the cloud, outlines it. Bottom of cloud is sprayed with stencil three or four inches from surface to make a very diffused “feathered” edge. Lowance does not recommend using any black or gray sprayt-- allowing blue to show through creates the “shadowing” and shading. Very simple but effective.
I posted pictures but they did not display. I’ll try again…
Spray-painted clouds for a bay scene…(You would need