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HWCRR
Engine Wiper
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 Posted - 07/11/2012 : 11:19:42 AM
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I have always been cheap. Well, frugal anyhow. I have looked for a long time an easy and inexpensive way to get the cracked, chipped and bubbling paint found on old, un-maintained structures.
I have used up a lot of time trying sooooo many experiments. The one that I finally settled on, is inexpensive, and not really messy.
I will lay on the wood grain with a fine tooth razor saw, or a wire brush. Lightly sand any Irish pennants that might have that unscale appearance.
Next, I will stain the wood with an india ink and alcohol mix.
When that has dried, I will paint white glue onto the wood. ONE SWIPE! If you do not get all the wood covered, don't worry about it. It actually adds to the effect.
Set aside to dry for between 10 to 15 minutes. It should be slightly tacky when you do the next step.
Pick the water base paint you wish to use as your color and in ONE SWIPE, cover the wood strip.
Refrain, restrain, lock yourself in a cell. Do not brush back over it. This will actually ruin the effect you are wanting.
Then set aside and let it work.
For this, I used white glue and floquil mud, water base paint, and two brushes.
Easy and inexpensive. No fuss, no muss. Water clean up and great results.
If anyone else has ever made this post, using this technique, my apologies. No toe stepping on intended. I have not been here long.
Dave HWCRR |
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Rick
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 07/11/2012 : 12:08:25 PM
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Dave, nice results.
The Elmer's is used full strength?
Delbert, I imagine that the Worn Effects works similarly as rubber cement? |
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HWCRR
Engine Wiper
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Posted - 07/11/2012 : 12:29:49 PM
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Originally posted by Rick
Dave, nice results.
The Elmer's is used full strength?
Delbert, I imagine that the Worn Effects works similarly as rubber cement?
Yes it is used full strength. Also, to add a note. Drying times will vary, according to the area you live in. Thought it might be good to mention that. |
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kirk
Fireman
Sweden
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Posted - 07/11/2012 : 12:57:33 PM
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| Dave, thank you for the tip! What an easy way to get such a fine result! |
Troels Kirk
Näsum, Sweden
http://coastline.no13.se |
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HWCRR
Engine Wiper
231 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2012 : 1:10:39 PM
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Originally posted by kirk
Dave, thank you for the tip! What an easy way to get such a fine result!
You are most welcome Troels! I have purused all your work and you, are one of the great modelers! Your techniques amaze me. I am sort of embarrassed to admit this, but it was discovered by a small mishap. I spilled some paint on a piece of wood I had been using to spread white glue over a larger area.
I went away for awhile and when I came back, I picked up the wood strip and there it was. So, all the experiments were sort of nil.
Dave HWCRR |
Edited by - HWCRR on 07/11/2012 1:38:14 PM |
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brownbr
Crew Chief
USA
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Posted - 07/11/2012 : 4:33:52 PM
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| Great results. I'm going to give it a try |
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HWCRR
Engine Wiper
231 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2012 : 8:14:44 PM
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This is the back wall of the William Creek R.R. Station, using this technique.
The camera is only 4" from the wall surface and set on macro. So, it is greatly exaggerated.
As an extra note. I use floor wax to mount my window glazing. Gives it the 'old' glass look. When finished, as the station has very large windows and sits on the front of my module, it will have interior and exterior lighting with full interior.
I will do a thread on its progress.
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Geezer
Fireman
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HWCRR
Engine Wiper
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Posted - 07/12/2012 : 11:20:03 AM
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Well, I said I would do a thread on this so, here goes. Thought I would just use this same thread, rather than starting over.
I stayed up very late last night and into the wee hours of the morning. I am remodeling the William Creek Station.
It is a kit I built some time ago and it has gone through several paint jobs. It started out as station green. Went to red and it ended up D&RG yellow.
Now, I am no longer happy with it. It sets on the very front edge of my module and it just does not trip my trigger anymore.
I am removing the roof, windows, door and mouldings. From there, I will just have to see where my imagination takes it.
The doors and windows, are sticky paper products. Thats the first thing I am changing.
I am removing the paper window frames but saving the inner frames and mutins. (Is that how that is spelled?)
I am reframing them with scribed wood and aging them considerably. You can see in pics above. I am remounting the window glass and dipping them into floor wax, to give that 'elderly, aged glass look. So far, I have gotten two windows finished and two outside walls done.
This is how it looked on the module. Okay, though it has a 'but' monkey hanging over it.
So...It is going from the above to this.
I am going to try and do an interior. As I was looking over the disassembled model last night, that may prove not impossible, but very difficult. Just have to see if my exuberance remains in tact.
A lot of work ahead!
It was a very inexpensive kit; $5.00 at a garage sale. So no great loss if this does not work out. I do have my eye on a very good looking station that would fit in the same spot very handily.
I can always turn this station into an abandoned and very run down structure.
And yes, the D&RG yellow is showing through. I wanted this effect. To show the extreme fading, blistering and cracking effect. In some places the paint looks very thick. This is also thought out. It's the, "too much time and coats since last scraped and painted," look.
On one end of the station, I am going to have a maintenance crew working. Scraping the old off and getting ready to paint. 
Dave (HWCRR) |
Edited by - HWCRR on 07/12/2012 11:54:39 AM |
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closetguy
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 07/12/2012 : 11:48:58 AM
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Dave
great technique. Thank you for sharing. And it's nice to see weathering that is not taken to the extreme. The building has a nice used appearance, needing a new paint job, not looking run down and decrepit.
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moore
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/12/2012 : 11:56:56 AM
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This is a very interesting technique, well done on the discovery! You are modest about this, I would imagine though that a lot of the great discoveries are purely a fluke, I would imagine early man didn't think too much about cooking his meat until he discovered that dead animals tasted better after a forest fire so I guess most things come about like this.
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andykins
Fireman
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/12/2012 : 1:15:02 PM
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no way? PVA glue then paint?
know what im doing tomorrow :D
thanks! looks great (and like you im cheap (sorry frugal) and love stuff like this, it looks great)
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HWCRR
Engine Wiper
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Posted - 07/12/2012 : 3:26:39 PM
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Had to step away and help clean some carpet. Here are a couple more shots of the roof ends. I have to go back to work tomorrow, so more than likely, will not be posting anymore for at least four days. But, that gives me plenty of time to do some thinking about what I want the interior to look like. That's if I go ahead with the interior.
Thanks for all the great comments my fellow modellers.
That's it for now. Catch yu'all later.
Dave (HWCRR)
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HWCRR
Engine Wiper
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Posted - 07/18/2012 : 11:15:34 AM
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Well, sat down this morning and did a little more work on the exterior of the William Creek Station. Using the technique I use, of aging paint.
I have decided not to do full interior. It is a small structure and too difficult to work with, (for me anyway). So, I am going to put blinds in all the windows and still do interior and exterior lighting.
Again, the pics following are on macro and 4 inches from the model. The aging paint effect,is greatly exaggerated because of this.
I have done away with the sticky paper window, corner and door and door trim. It has all been replaced with wood.
I still have to make corner and door trim. The corners of the station look a little messy, but that is from removing the old trim. It will disappear. But, gotta make a run to the store. Ran out of wood!
Wood flies when you are having fun!
Dave (Horace and William Creek R.R.) |
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Rick
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HWCRR
Engine Wiper
231 Posts |
Posted - 07/18/2012 : 5:49:16 PM
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Flipping through youtube today I ran across this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDHb2JstQeg&feature=fvwrel
Well, I guess I am not the first. But, I did learn of this by total mistake. And here I thought I had actually come up with something.
He is force drying and going back over his strokes. When I tried to overstroke, it ruined the effect. Might have something to do with the smaller scale of work. Didn't think of force drying.
Dave (HWCRR)
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Edited by - HWCRR on 07/18/2012 6:02:34 PM |
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Cracking and Bubbling Paint Technique
