Ken That Really looks great!
Carl…
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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-paint
Ken,
Very nice. And that station looks familar:
Although, mine is still under costruction.
Nick