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 Posted - June 23 2015 : 9:06:49 PM
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No one starting us off again this week? Ok well then how about the old Plasticville Freight Station. A second hand building with second hand details a little paint and a brick paper tower I tossed together for the original layout I built for my son in the eighties. 
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Posted - June 23 2015 : 10:17:13 PM
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| Nice Gary. Nice load of materials on the deck there.
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Posted - June 23 2015 : 10:57:26 PM
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| Simple and very nice. It shows the potential in some of the simplest kits.
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Posted - June 23 2015 : 11:12:59 PM
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Well done, Gary.
Well put, Burlington77.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - June 24 2015 : 12:54:55 AM
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Nice! I like the boarded-up tower window.
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - June 24 2015 : 08:21:35 AM
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| Man, that is an awesome piece. Very simple but says a lot. Love it.
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Posted - June 24 2015 : 8:03:51 PM
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Thanks guys, glad you like it. You know looking at my photo I got to say what makes it is the crappy paint job. Just enough that it doesn't look like a plastic toy. Sometimes that all it takes.
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Posted - June 24 2015 : 8:14:09 PM
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quote:Thanks guys, glad you like it. You know looking at my photo I got to say what makes it is the crappy paint job. Just enough that it doesn't look like a plastic toy. Sometimes that all it takes.
Originally posted by Gary BÂ -Â June 24 2015Â :Â 8:03:51 PM
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You say "crappy paint job", I say "weathered" 
I like that stonework. Is that just painted on?
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - June 24 2015 : 9:39:03 PM
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Naw Jerry, weathering is what guys spend a fortune on powders and special paints and practice air brushing techniques for. Modeling magazines publish monthly articles on how-to and photo essays featuring the best of the best. They even have books and clinics on it. What I did was a 'wham bam thank you mam' couple of brush strokes and that was it. But hey, it works!
The stone is printed off a texture site (below) on to thick card and pasted on. That works too.
http://www.cgtextures.com/
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Posted - June 25 2015 : 12:55:07 AM
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Last week I mentioned changing Sam' car lot. I bought a new kit for parts and modified the base to enlarge parking space. I trimmed off the first 5/8 inch of the left side with the rounded sidewalk to make a square fit. Removed steps etc, smoothed then used a light coat of textured paint before the flat black. Will glue together, fill the seam to get black area all the same color, and paint the sidewalk all one color. I'm using only parts from Sam's kit to make this, other than the two lighted Life-Like poles...
 
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Posted - June 25 2015 : 11:45:29 PM
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Finally got a Wells Fargo Station for my town. Now I have a place for my stage coach
passengers to disembark.
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Posted - June 26 2015 : 7:20:32 PM
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quote:Naw Jerry, weathering is what guys spend a fortune on powders and special paints and practice air brushing techniques for. Modeling magazines publish monthly articles on how-to and photo essays featuring the best of the best. They even have books and clinics on it. What I did was a 'wham bam thank you mam' couple of brush strokes and that was it. But hey, it works!
The stone is printed off a texture site (below) on to thick card and pasted on. That works too.
http://www.cgtextures.com/
Originally posted by Gary BÂ -Â June 24 2015Â :Â 9:39:03 PM
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The people who do all the fancy weathering stuff you see in magazines speak of powders and airbrushes as if they're something I can afford...  I find that comparable results can easily be accomplished using $1 craft-store acrylics, a 10-cent foam paintbrush, and some boredom.
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Posted - June 26 2015 : 9:40:09 PM
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quote:Naw Jerry, weathering is what guys spend a fortune on powders and special paints and practice air brushing techniques for. Modeling magazines publish monthly articles on how-to and photo essays featuring the best of the best. They even have books and clinics on it. What I did was a 'wham bam thank you mam' couple of brush strokes and that was it. But hey, it works!
The stone is printed off a texture site (below) on to thick card and pasted on. That works too.
http://www.cgtextures.com/
Originally posted by Gary BÂ -Â June 24 2015Â :Â 9:39:03 PM
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Yeah Gary, like I said...weathering and if you got the right effect by slapping it with a few brush strokes I guess that makes you a weathering genius 
Thanks for the texture site link!
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - June 27 2015 : 3:01:51 PM
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Nice find, Old Timer. Look forward to the
finsihed project.
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