The layout I’ve been planning has slowly taken a little bit of shape with some track laid and some possible buildings, however I needed some placeholders for a potential small town is was going to make. I had some Superquick kits that were built by my late grandad and I thought it would be a nice homage to use them in some capacity.
So I began looking at them in a bit more detail. The problem that quickly struck me was that there was a fundamental issue in that everything was flat- proportionally it was great, the windows really nice but I felt that a new roof, chimney (it had already fallen off- the kits are a little battered but as I’m covering everything it won’t be an issue) and definitely some more interesting walling was required.
So some coffee stirrers, balsa, white plasticine and my own printed brick papers using video game textures were applied to one wall to see how it would look.
I used brown artist acrylic and white dry brushed on. With the plasticine I think the lesson is not to use too much in the way of weathering powders as they stick rather too well as the black part in the middle attests!
So I began looking at them in a bit more detail. The problem that quickly struck me was that there was a fundamental issue in that everything was flat- proportionally it was great, the windows really nice but I felt that a new roof, chimney (it had already fallen off- the kits are a little battered but as I’m covering everything it won’t be an issue) and definitely some more interesting walling was required.
So some coffee stirrers, balsa, white plasticine and my own printed brick papers using video game textures were applied to one wall to see how it would look.
I used brown artist acrylic and white dry brushed on. With the plasticine I think the lesson is not to use too much in the way of weathering powders as they stick rather too well as the black part in the middle attests!
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