MiniArt railway crossing

[Guest]

Could be the card facing was a little water repellent in nature. Looks like you’ve sorted it now though…..

I think so too, the foam board has the glossy kind of card on both sides. The filler sticks well enough when dry, but when wet, it likes to stick to wood better than to smooth card.

if used wet you will have a bigger mess...

Probably, yes

[Guest]

Now I finally got the paint I needed for this, I sprayed the road grey:

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First a coat of Tamiya XF-24 Dark Grey straight from the bottle (except for thinning it, of course), and then I mixed a bit of XF-52 Flat Earth into what remained in my airbrush cup and sprayed random patterns over it. You can see a few lighter areas in the photo, which I missed when spraying — it’s not that easy putting medium-dark grey paint over slightly lighter grey plastic

[Graeme C.]

Coming along nicely Jakko, even with all the pitfalls.:thumb2:

[Guest]

As I was spraying my Weasel, I also did some more here:

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I put some Italeri 4861AP Flat Rubber into my airbrush, thinned with water (don’t use alcohol with Italeri paints!) and sprayed the ballast between the sleepers, as well as some more random patches on the road surface. Well, semi-random, as I aimed to cover the bits I had missed with the base colour

[Guest]

Finally got round to doing a bit more on this.

I first hand-painted the sleepers with Tamiya red-brown and the rails with a dark red-brown from Army Painter, but I don’t recall the name on the bottle from downstairs on the sofa After that I also painted the beams that make up the actual crossing with the same Tamiya red-brown:

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The next step was a black wash (Tamiya flat black) over all of the ballast, sleepers, rails and their hardware:

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However, I didn’t put that on the beams for the crossing, except at their ends, because I figure those will weather differently because of the road traffic coming over it.

I also put a wash of Tamiya NATO black (very dark grey) over the road surfaces:

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It’s a bit shiny here because it wasn’t dry yet when I took the photo.

[JR]

Well you got there in the end Jakko, all looking good.

I mixed PVA with water then add the dry powered wall filler , just my way . You don't need a lot of PVA to give a good bond with wall filler .

[adt70hk]

Coming on nicely Jakko!

[Guest]

Thanks

I mixed PVA with water then add the dry powered wall filler , just my way . You don't need a lot of PVA to give a good bond with wall filler .

Back when I built a fair number of dioramas, I usually used pre-mixed wall filler from a tube. I did use the powdered kind sometimes, but I always find that so messy, so I prefer to stay away from it — even if it will keep for longer than pre-mixed, if you store it where damp won’t get into it anyway.

[Peter Gillson]

Well you got there in the end Jakko, all looking good.

I mixed PVA with water then add the dry powered wall filler , just my way . You don't need a lot of PVA to give a good bond with wall filler .

I do the same, but also add a little brown paint to colour the filler.

Petet

[Guest]

We’re slowly making progress …

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I painted the verges in Tamiya XF-52 Flat Earth, then followed it with a wash of medium brown and drybrushing with a light earth colour, and also attempted to show where cars cross the wooden beams between the tracks:

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On the right as well as in a few random spots more in the middle of the road, I’ve added more Flat Earth along the sides of the road to try and blend the road with the dirt from the verges, because on a real street there wouldn’t be such a neat separation:

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Compare to the left side, where I hadn’t done that yet when I took these photos:

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These still need more work, mainly in applying the dark wash and light drybrushing here as well.

[JR]

Looks like your enjoying it, the colours are starting to bring out the detailing of the cars using the timber crossing .

[Guest]

Enjoying it in small bits, anyway

[Guest]

It’s been a while since I worked on this, but we’re getting there.

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Yesterday, I glued static grass to the sides of the road, and tonight, I sprayed dark lines along the road and down the middle of the railway track to represent oil, dirt, grime etc. I then painted the tops of the rails with Humbrol Polished Steel (after masking the wooden beams that form the crossing) and buffed it with a cloth.

I’ve also built and painted the barriers:

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These are loose, and will remain so because that will allow me to store this much more reasonably than with them glued in place. They will also remain workable (more or less) so I can pose them up or down as needed.

[JR]

Looking good . Like the weathering on the track and sleepers along the center line. :thumb2: