Shelby's Marine Service

[Janbouli]

Great modeling Steve, I really appreciate you showing us how you build the dio's and then place them in your layout, looking forward to when you do scenery to bond it all together.

[sdrees]

Thanks Mark and Jan. 

[ACL1504]

Steve,

Getting caught up on your build. Beautiful work, the water front looks wonderful.

Tom

[sdrees]

SierraWest Scale Models include many many castings in their kits that add lots of detail to their Here is a quick guide on how I go about it.  As you can see from the photo, I use many types of paint, Rembrandt soft pastels, Reaper acrylic paints, craft acrylic paints from Michaels and what ever other paint I may need.

The first step for me is to prime the castings with a spay paint.  For wood items, I spray the castings with a earth tone color. For metal items, I will use a gray colored paint.  In this case, I used an air brush.

I always use a piece of glass for my palette because it is so easy to cleanup.  I just use a straight razor blade to scrape the glass.

On the left side of the glass are powders made from the soft pastels.  In this case I used pastel numbers 408.3, 408.5, 408.7, various shades of raw umber, 231.3 a shade of yellow ochre. 
I use alcohol to mix with the powder to paint all the wood surfaces on the castings.

Then I use the acrylic paint to paint all the little details of the castings such as wood and metal barrels, various tools, cans, buckets, parts, etc

I will then use an A/I solution and go over the whole casting and then let the alcohol dry.  I will then use various shades burnt sienna and add rust where I want it.

Once the casting is complete, I will then dust it with a light gray or earth tone to dull the colors so that non of them draws your attention.


These castings are completed.   

[Zephyrus52246]

Nice work on the castings, Steve.


Jeff

[postalkarl]

Hi Steve:

The castings look great.

Karl

[Mkrailway]

Steve, you are getting along great with the build.

[sdrees]

thanks Jeff, Marty and Karl,  this is only about a third of them, and more to do.  Then there are some things that I want to update on the diorama to bring it into the early 1950's such as the stationary steam engine etc and the boat will be a powered with a diesel engine instead of sails. This will require more castings.

[engine909]

Steve, It is always a joy watching a Sierra West kit being built. You are doing some fine modeling.
Thank you for sharing. It is a very generous gesture.
ed

[sdrees]

I have been working lately on the loading dock, overhead crane pieces and the hoist house.  here are some progress photo's of the hoist house.

I have modified the front of the building because I am going to install an electric winch in it that will be able to be seen. 

[sdrees]

Ed,

Thanks for stopping by and the nice compliment.

[postalkarl]

Hi Steve:

The weathering looks just great. Love the red you used on the walls.

Karl

[jerryrbeach]

Steve,
What Karl said.

[donatode]

What Jerry and Karl said.....only double!!

[sdrees]

I have been working on the fishing boat. This will be in the repair yard when the diorama is complete What I have done is add a prop and rudder to the boat. Also the cabin I made the walls out of 1/64" bass plywood and made several templates and wrapped it around and glued the plywood to them. The roof is 1/32" bass plywood.