I am not good with colours, that green roof that is on the Atlas train station is driving me nuts. Can someone tell me what colours to use on it and maybe post a pic I would be grateful. Paint or powders it doesn’t matter. I weathered most of it years ago, everything but the roof. I think it is supposed to be a moss coloured shake roof. I wished Atlas would have made it shake brown instead of that ugly green. Make it look new and we can take it from there.
It is one of those things on the layout I never got around to finishing even though a few minutes is all it will take. Now is the time!
I’ve had some good results with the old stand-by, India ink wash.
A few of my structures are the Walthers “Built-ups” that have a factory finish (usually unpainted plastic). My intention is to re-finish these “someday”.
In the interim, I have given them the Indi ink treatment and it is a quick way to age the structure and make some of the details stand out.
In some cases I masked the windows and gave them a dusting of Dullcote, then did a light ink wash.
I much prefer kits, of course, but a few of these structures were only available as built-up at the time.
I’ve not seen green shakers, tho in humid Maryland if we had shaker roofs they might be green. Go brown with grey or all grey. I hear there are 50 shades
Ah, but like all things, it depends: green shingles are incredibly common in some parts of the country. Slate roofs too (you know, like the same kind of material they used to make green chalkboards out of!). There were definitely B&O and PRR stations with green roofs out there.
I used Plastruct Styrene shingle sheets for a recent scratch built home. I’d never used Styrene shingles before. I did a Google search for weathering and several sites advised to use a light grey primer. Scratch up the singles with a steel wire “Distresser” then India Ink to bring out the wood grain.
Now I could live with that green. The green on my Atlas station looked like a bright neon green. I think I will go with a dark gray with an India ink wash.
It is funny how the brain of a slightly colour blind person works. If I say something is green and someone tells me its gray and I look at it again, I will see gray, go figure.[:|]
I was just looking for an excuse to post that old photo I’ve had laying around! I knew I remembered a green roof from somewhere and it wasn’t a Lucy Maud Montgomery book, either [:D]
Hopefully Brent will find a good way to tone-down or change that depot.
Hey, Ed, truth be told, I really like that photo of the train station that you posted. Since Brent has revealed that he is somewhat color blind, maybe that green color on his station is not as ugly as he believes that it is. [X-)]
