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Hi, I'm Bob from Classic Toy Trains magazine.
Here's a little bit of a tip on how we did some of the paint scenery
for our new project layout. I believe I mentioned,
on another video, we used a sponge type roller,
and a real sponge, and just a regular roller to create a textured look.
It's a very simple process. Firstly
we used a sort of, I guess, desert tan, sand tan
brown and we create a pretty nice, pretty solid,
base coat would represent the dirt as seen in your backyard.
Okay now that the paint has dried, we've picked a green paint you can pick,
yeah, I think this looks like avocado. You can pick whatever
green is predominant in your area.
Again, using a sponge - now, why are we using the sponge? - so we have sort of a mottled
not a one hundred percent fill. Maybe I should have worn an apron, this is a slopping
paint all over the place!
And while we're not shooting for a complete 100 percent fill
with the green paint there are some spaces we might want to add just a
little bit more to
so we use a sponge sponge not a roller sponge.
In fact you could probably use
this more effectively for tighter distances tighter spaces
and use this for the overall area.
So you think this for around stations, the areas where you're going to mount a station, have a platform,
have an accessory,
and the roller for the wide open prairies.
And so you can see when the paint has dried you have a very interesting effect:
the solid brown ground
with the kind of splotchy grain. You come out with a really nice
appearance that the ground cover, the grass, whatever, has not quite covered
all the dirt.
This is a very clever way of painting the base of your layout without
just
covering it a hundred percent in green or a hundred percent in brown -
and since this is Wisconsin, we find that's probably half the year!
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