FSM Kit # 240 Branchline Water Tank - 2022 Challenge (2)

[Mark Dalrymple]

Nice colouring, John.

Cheers, Mark.

[S&S RR]

Nice colouring, John.

Cheers, Mark.

Mark


Thank you, now for the chalks.

[S&S RR]

I have used this technique on a number of builds now with different colors of chalk. Warning: It looks bad until you go through the blending process. In this case the soft pastel chalks that I'm using are pan pastels, but I'm scraping them out of the container they come in on to my glass plate and applying them with a brush using alcohol.

[S&S RR]

I paint individual random stones with the chalk and alcohol solution.


After color 1:





After color 2





After color 3:




After Color 4:





After Color 5:

[S&S RR]

After the alcohol has dried - I then use a dry brush with a little gray tint and rub the colors all together.

[S&S RR]

After I'm satisfied with the blending I use a soft rubber eraser to remove some of the chalk from the brick surface and the cement block surface.





Here are a few progress pictures.































I just keep going back and forth by adding chalk and using the eraser until I'm happy with the results.

[S&S RR]

If you rub the brush on the surface to hard you can get corners or high spots showing through that are shinny.  I just go back and add chalk on these spots and dry brush again - lighter this time.

[PRR Modeler]

Very nice John.

[chris.mincemoyer]

Wow that looks great. What does the alcohol do for this process? Doesn't appear you used as a wash.

[S&S RR]

Very nice John.

Curt


Thank you,

[S&S RR]

Wow that looks great. What does the alcohol do for this process? Doesn't appear you used as a wash.

Chris


The alcohol turns the chalk dust into paint so it just brushes on.  You want it on the surface heavy so you can move it from one stone to the next during the blending process. To my eye there is a lot more color variations than what you see in the photographs. I'm taking the pictures with my iPhone - I will get the SLR out for the final pictures.

[postalkarl]

Hey John:

All I can say is WOWIE!!!!!!! Those walls are just beautiful. can't wait to see more on this kit.

Karl

[GPdemayo]

Love the way the stone is looking John.....I need to get some chalks and try this technique. 

[S&S RR]

Hey John:

All I can say is WOWIE!!!!!!! Those walls are just beautiful. can't wait to see more on this kit.

Karl

Thank you, my friend. Today, some door castings, and I will start on the wood portion of the Tank.

[S&S RR]

Love the way the stone is looking John.....I need to get some chalks and try this technique. 

Greg


Thank you for the kind words.  I really enjoy working with the stone work with this technique. With this color combination it looks like the stone for this water tower was picked up from one of the talus piles along the Railroad line.