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 Posted - August 01 2012 : 9:42:45 PM
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I've been using Dave Frary Model railroad scenery as my bible.
So far everything he shuggests and illustrates has come out well
BUT not the skies, clouds and mountains.
Twice i've tried the blue top, white bottom proceedure blending while wet. It looks like a painted wall. blue on top white on bottom. The pics of backgrounds, clouds, distant mountains look like they were done by a professional artist and blend in to the layout with no break in the perspective
I am not an artist but would like to have a realistic back ground of sky, mountains and even a town
any suggestions with out breaking the bank . Printed murals are too expensive.
I could look around for a starving artist
fred in MI
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Posted - August 02 2012 : 6:19:21 PM
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Fred,
I'm not sure what to suggest, but I've also had the same problem. I think that latex paints just dry way too fast.
I have painted oil-on-canvas and the sky comes out beautiful, just as Frary's does. But the oil paint takes 3 weeks to dry. The oil stays wet for a long time and that is why you can take your time to blend it. But I can't justify oil-on-canvas for my current layout.
So as I said, I don't know quite what to suggest. If there was a way to slow down the drying time of the latex paint, that might do the trick.
- Thomas
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Posted - August 02 2012 : 8:50:39 PM
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Well the latex paint dries fast due to less humidity in the air, so, if you "paint" a room when its hot, and humid, the paint takes longer for the water in the paint to evaporate, so, add in humidifier and make the room hot so that the water evaporating isn't as fast!
There are no real ways to slow latex from drying sadly this is all I can suggest for you to try.....
What size brush you using? I would venture as guess to use the largest brush you feel comfortable with, and to that try brushiung it from the white into the blue and then the other way around, work in sections, to the wetness of the paint.....moving on ONLY when your satisfied with the result of any one given section that your currently working on.....
KEEP a spray bottle with you, and add water onto the wall as you go.......
HTH
~John
Many have tried to, and failed, ya just can't repair stupid...
Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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Posted - August 02 2012 : 9:35:01 PM
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old painter trick--add vinigar to retard drying
or get artists acrylic paints and add retardant
My problem is lack of artistic ability. I use a 4 inch brush to blend the white and blue with horizontal strokes like the book instructs.
Keeping it moist not a problem, iy just doesn't look like the results in the book
I'm going to look for wall paper
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Posted - August 03 2012 : 12:42:30 AM
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what I did to my modular when I belonged to a club was use the polyester stuffing for clouds
I would paint the back ground blue Make cloulds & glue them to the background
Silly I know but looked 3-D instead of flat
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