Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

Finally, for tonight, we have a picture of the molds after the first test casting with hydrocal. I mixed up enough plaster to fill both molds in a disposable cup.  I plan on making some resin castings with the molds tomorrow.

[S&S RR]

I started painting the castings for the Brambell's build today.  This is a photograph of my first attempt for the wall pit wall castings.  I want them to look like they were made from the stones in the area. This casting is a plaster casting from the mold I made. I painted it with earth paint first - then used 6 different colors of pan pastels from there.  What do you think? 

[ACL1504]

John,

The walls look great.


Tom

[S&S RR]

John,

The walls look great.


Tom

Tom


Thanks for the kind words - a few more details with the chalks and I think I'm ready to go with this. The details in George's castings are just amazing.  Keep in mind that this is duplicate casting from one of my molds.
Thanks again for stopping by the thread.

[deemery]

The wall matches your local stone color, that's a great match.


dave

[S&S RR]

The wall matches your local stone color, that's a great match.


dave

Dave


Thanks - I'm finding myself using less and less paint and more chalks and pigments. I plan on giving the plaster rocks in the foreground of the layout some detailing with chalks I like the results so much.

[deemery]

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Dave

Thanks - I'm finding myself using less and less paint and more chalks and pigments. I plan on giving the plaster rocks in the foreground of the layout some detailing with chalks I like the results so much.

My 'style' for these is to spray prime with the mortar color, then sponge paint the basic rock color.  That gives me a consistent sealed work surface and gets a lot of color on cheaply and quickly.  Then I'll work pigments and chalks to bring out details.


dave

[S&S RR]

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Dave

Thanks - I'm finding myself using less and less paint and more chalks and pigments. I plan on giving the plaster rocks in the foreground of the layout some detailing with chalks I like the results so much.

My 'style' for these is to prime with the mortar color, then sponge paint the basic rock color.  That gives me a consistent sealed work surface and gets a lot of color on cheaply and quickly.  Then I'll work pigments and chalks to bring out details.


dave

I sealed the plaster castings with Krylon Camouflage Ultra-flat Earth Paint, put skipped the sponge painting and when't right to the pigments. Today, I'm going to try this process with resin castings, but I can tell you at this point I like the plaster castings better than the resin. This may just be me - but I think they look better.  I will post pictures when I get something to show.

[Zephyrus52246]

I agree with Dave that the color match for your rocks is spot on.  Nice work.

Jeff

[Mark Dalrymple]

John - the colour match to the local rocks is great. 

I wonder whether the top lintel should be concrete too?  It looks too uniform to be stone.  Also - can you get any mortar lines in the brickwork?

Looking great, cheers, Mark.

[deemery]

John - the colour match to the local rocks is great. 

I wonder whether the top lintel should be concrete too?  It looks too uniform to be stone.  Also - can you get any mortar lines in the brickwork?

Looking great, cheers, Mark.

If not concrete, then granite....


dave

[S&S RR]

Jeff,Mark, and Dave


Thanks for the kind words, and yes the top lintel should also be concrete. This was a waste casting and I was trying to decide if I wanted the lintels to be stone or concrete. George also has some bolts cast in that need to be painted rust. Every time I work with one of the FSM castings I am amazed at the detail.  The mortar is very deep on this casting so I'm going to try using grey primer as my base coat on the next one. Stay tuned for test two. And thanks for stopping by the thread and commenting.

[Twist67]

Hi,

wow....fantastic work on those walls.....great....

Cheers,Chris

[LongHornCaddy]

Nice looking walls and nice looking trees in the background!

[S&S RR]

Hi,

wow....fantastic work on those walls.....great....

Cheers,Chris

Chris


Thanks for the kind words and for stopping by the thread. I think one more test casting and it will be time to start building this structure.