08-25-2009, 11:42 AM
Thank you Jack, I appreciate your thoughts. Val, I am modeling early 1950's, and am supposing the office would have been built around 1915-1925. I like your suggestion of white for the trim. I had decided to paint the moldings the same color as the wall, rather than concrete. To make them pop out a bit, I used a variation of the standard drybrushing of white on raised details. Instead of attempting drybrushing on the textured paint, I simply masked the moldings when I sprayed the grey primer on the walls. Then I removed the masking and applied the stone paint. Because the moldings were still white, they look lighter than the rest of the wall. Here are a couple pics. Now I need to make some stairs and a sidewalk, and think of how to turn that black foamcore into a macadam parking lot!
