Tag: Scenery

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Painting the harbour

It’s a windy day at this harbour today

Wow what a difference adding paint and varnish makes to the harbour scene. It gives a more realistic appearance. I used techniques shown in a harbour video tutorial found in the link below. Lots of great videos here.

https://www.youtube.com/user/marklinofsweden.

PVA and toilet paper make great looking waves
Now for some shaded painting with careful selection of colours
Now to add the wave foam
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Planning for the roadways

Taking a looping track that represents a linear track plan with stations at opposite ends requires careful planning. When it came time to introduce the roadways my new roads also needed to model this same concept. I used woodland scenics paving tape to act as boxing while I poured the plaster and used the paving tape to screed the plaster to form the road. Then peal off the tape when the plaster is set. Provided you get everything ready in advance ( smoothing, correct spacing and parallel tape, the end result looks really good especially after you give the road surface a light sand with a fine sanding block to make the road surface uniform.

The planned roadways were outlined using black insulation tape so lines could be easily adjusted until the final shape appeared, Then the lines could be out line and made ready to pour the roads.
Road was painted grey, black marker was used to detail road crack and a white marker for road lines accurately drawn.